The BATE Gazette
Match26 Oct 2028
A European night to remember for BATE
1‑1 against Go Ahead Eagles, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
The dugout30 Oct 2028
Danila Sokol frozen out at BATE
This is not rotation. Danila Sokol has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at BATE is pretending otherwise.
The dugout30 Oct 2028
Alexandr Svirskiy says BATE went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market30 Oct 2028
Only the photograph left for Yan Shumskiy
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yan Shumskiy will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around BATE the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings30 Oct 2028
A defender's goal wins it for BATE — 7.56
1 for Fawaz Abdullahi, marked 7.56, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad30 Oct 2028
Fawaz Abdullahi wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at BATE can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad30 Oct 2028
Nikita Neskoromnyi in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BATE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Oct 2028
Fawaz Abdullahi falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout30 Oct 2028
Danila Sokol gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- The dugout BATE keep their word to Danila Sokol
- Player ratings Nikita Neskoromnyi was unplayable
- Squad “I want to play”: Ivan Yablonski speaks