The Gomel Chronicle
Market6 Mar 2028
Pavel Sergutko agrees terms with Slonim
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Gomel people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
Timofey Simanenka, 21, steals the show — 7.79
Marked 7.79 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Transfer targets6 Mar 2028
Gomel rebuffed over Umarali Rahmonaliyev
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Minsk have kept their man, and Gomel go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market6 Mar 2028
Alexandr Rakhmatov is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gomel is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
Gomel tie Yan Kendysh down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Gomel
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Georgiy Kukushkin signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Georgiy Kukushkin and Gomel agree another 4 years.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Words at Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timofey Simanenka is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces6 Mar 2028
The crowd has taken to Vadim Martinkevich
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Yauhen Arlouski joins the Gomel first team
- Market One of our own: Ihar Filipenko joins the Gomel first team
- Match Gomel see off Smorgon