The Belshina Courier
Market10 Dec 2035
Only the photograph left for Ruslan Bykau
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ruslan Bykau will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Belshina the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad10 Dec 2035
A falling-out at Belshina
Arseniy Yushkevich and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom10 Dec 2035
271% of the income goes out in wages at Belshina
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad10 Dec 2035
Ivan Laptev signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ivan Laptev commits to Belshina for another 3 years.
Squad10 Dec 2035
A row about effort at Belshina
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Uladzimir Hryshyn was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market10 Dec 2035
Pavel Prishivalko linked with a move away
The name of Pavel Prishivalko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Belshina say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- The dugout Sergei Hleb knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad The training reports on Viktar Hleb are not good