The Slutsk Post
Squad5 Mar 2029
A fracture rules Evgeny Chernov out for 51 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Slutsk will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market5 Mar 2029
Vladislav Chebotar has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slutsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout5 Mar 2029
Vladislav Sychev frozen out at Slutsk
This is not rotation. Vladislav Sychev has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Slutsk is pretending otherwise.
Market5 Mar 2029
Ignat Pranovich is a Slutsk player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad5 Mar 2029
A falling-out at Slutsk
Ivan Mikhnyuk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom5 Mar 2029
5 academy graduates step up at Slutsk
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets5 Mar 2029
Door shut on Zakhar Chervyakov
Slutsk asked and Vitebsk said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Words at Slutsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oleg Nikiforenko 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 terraces5 Mar 2029
Slutsk supporters have found a favourite in Andrey Solodukhin
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Andrey Solodukhin has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Eduard Dragun joins the Slutsk first team
- Market Yan Kislyak steps up from the Slutsk academy
- Match Dmitriy Vashkevich the difference as Slutsk beat Vitebsk