Ivan Laptev

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Marked for Ivan Laptev

145 Edition

The Orsha Chronicle

7 May 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match5 May 2029

A hiding for Orsha

Beaten 0‑3 by Minsk, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Match5 May 2029

The wait goes on for Orsha

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Boardroom7 May 2029

The owner puts $50.7K into Orsha

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

Squad7 May 2029

Words at Orsha training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matvey Bazhanov 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.

Match5 May 2029

Orsha leaking at the back

4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Squad7 May 2029

Words exchanged at Orsha

Ivan Ageev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom7 May 2029

Orsha cannot sign anybody

The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.

Squad7 May 2029

Orsha count the cost of losing Ivan Laptev

16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Boardroom7 May 2029

Orsha are $6.4M in the red

The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.

In brief

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141 Edition

The Orsha Chronicle

9 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match4 Apr 2029

Orsha bow out of the cup

Isloch go through and Orsha go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad9 Apr 2029

Orsha lose Yan Komarov

37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad9 Apr 2029

A falling-out at Orsha

Gleb Zheleznikov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces9 Apr 2029

One of their own: Matvey Bazhanov

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match7 Apr 2029

Orsha get the job done against Volna Pinsk

A 1‑0 win over Volna Pinsk, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad9 Apr 2029

Orsha count the cost of losing Ivan Laptev

45 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Boardroom9 Apr 2029

Embargo at Orsha

No fees may be paid for anybody, whatever the squad needs. Every rumour about this club until it lifts is a rumour about a deal that cannot be done.

Squad9 Apr 2029

Nikita Bobchenok 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.

Boardroom9 Apr 2029

The borrowing at Orsha reaches $6.2M

Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $6.2M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.

In brief