From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market4 Dec 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market4 Dec 2028
Ilya Lebedev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slonim they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad4 Dec 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mitch Apau commits to Slonim for another 2 years.
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Uneasy
Market13 Nov 2028
Danila Antonov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slonim they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad13 Nov 2028
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Mitch Apau, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad13 Nov 2028
The manager makes an example of Giorgi Todua
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Uneasy
Boardroom23 Oct 2028
Pressure builds in the Slonim boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Match23 Oct 2028
Slonim are in real trouble now
Position 13, 16 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad23 Oct 2028
“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.
Squad23 Oct 2028
Denis Miskevich asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market23 Oct 2028
Slonim have made Danila Antonov available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Market23 Oct 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Slonim know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Boardroom2 Oct 2028
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Boardroom2 Oct 2028
214% of the income goes out in wages at Slonim
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.
Squad2 Oct 2028
“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.
Market2 Oct 2028
Still no signature from Mitch Apau
4 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Slonim could get for him.
Market2 Oct 2028
Slonim have made Marat Kalinchenko available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Zack Henry knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
Wages eat 216% of everything Slonim earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Market4 Sep 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Slonim will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad4 Sep 2028
The manager makes an example of Ilya Lebedev
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market4 Sep 2028
Still no signature from Mitch Apau
5 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Slonim could get for him.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Denis Miskevich asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad4 Sep 2028
A rating of 7.01 was enough for the selectors, and nobody who watched the match is going to argue with them.
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Uneasy
Match28 Aug 2028
Slonim sink to position 13
16 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Boardroom28 Aug 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Slonim
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market28 Aug 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Aug 2028
The manager makes an example of Mitch Apau
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match26 Aug 2028
Three points for Slonim, 1-0 the final word against Ostrovets in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market28 Aug 2028
The name of Danila Antonov has come up in conversations Slonim were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Crisis
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
9 points gone: Slonim in administration
This is the morning a town finds out what the accounts have been doing while it watched the football. The debt gets written down to something payable, and the football pays for it in points.
Squad7 Aug 2028
“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.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
The owner puts $99.9K into Slonim
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.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
Wages eat 202% of everything Slonim earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Match5 Aug 2028
A 1-0 win over Osipovichi, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad7 Aug 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Maxim Klunok and Slonim agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Crisis
Boardroom10 Jul 2028
Wages eat 188% of everything Slonim earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Boardroom10 Jul 2028
Slonim are $6.3M 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.
Match8 Jul 2028
Honours even between Slonim and Niva
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad10 Jul 2028
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market10 Jul 2028
Still no signature from Mitch Apau
7 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Slonim could get for him.
Squad10 Jul 2028
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Marat Kalinchenko keeps the shirt for now, at Slonim's convenience rather than his own.
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Crisis
Match5 Jun 2028
Slonim are in real trouble now
Position 12, 10 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match3 Jun 2028
No end in sight to Slonim's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Slonim has to find a result from somewhere.
Market5 Jun 2028
Danila Antonov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slonim they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad5 Jun 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Stepan Gomonov commits to Slonim for another 4 years.
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
$58.8K of the owner's money at Slonim
The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.
Match3 Jun 2028
1-2 to Arsenal Dzerzhinsk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad5 Jun 2028
The manager makes an example of Mitch Apau
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad5 Jun 2028
At 22 years old, Dmitry Miller became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Squad5 Jun 2028
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Uneasy
Market24 Apr 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slonim is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad24 Apr 2028
The manager makes an example of Mitch Apau
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match22 Apr 2028
Three points for Slonim, 1-0 the final word against Bumprom Gomel in a contest settled by the finer margins.
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Uneasy
Squad17 Apr 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad17 Apr 2028
42 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad17 Apr 2028
The manager makes an example of Egor Petrov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Crisis
Match11 Mar 2028
9 matches without a win for Slonim
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Slonim are no longer polite ones.
Market13 Mar 2028
Danila Antonov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slonim they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match11 Mar 2028
0-1 to Lokomotiv Gomel, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Dmitriy Sai 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.
Market13 Mar 2028
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market13 Mar 2028
Slonim have made Marat Kalinchenko available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom14 Feb 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Slonim
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market14 Feb 2028
Danila Antonov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slonim they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Feb 2028
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Crisis
Squad7 Feb 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mitch Apau and Slonim agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
The owner puts $23.2K into Slonim
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 Feb 2028
Zack Henry 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.
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Crisis
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
Egor Sivakov has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Slonim can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market3 Jan 2028
Ilya Lebedev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slonim they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
The owner puts $16.1K into Slonim
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.
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
Slonim 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.
Market3 Jan 2028
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Marat Kalinchenko may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Denis Miskevich asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Crisis
Market6 Dec 2027
Ilya Lebedev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slonim they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad6 Dec 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mitch Apau and Slonim agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom6 Dec 2027
The owner puts $8.1K into Slonim
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.
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Crisis
Market11 Oct 2027
Ilya Lebedev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slonim they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad11 Oct 2027
56 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mitch Apau and Slonim agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Match4 Oct 2027
Slonim sink to position 11
22 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market4 Oct 2027
Leeyon Phelan hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Oct 2027
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mitch Apau commits to Slonim for another 1 years.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Wages eat 209% of everything Slonim earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
The Slonim debt reaches $4.0M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
Squad4 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Denis Miskevich
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Stepan Gomonov asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Match6 Sep 2027
Slonim sink to position 11
22 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market6 Sep 2027
Leeyon Phelan hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Squad6 Sep 2027
54 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Wages eat 213% of everything Slonim earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Vladimir Dziov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market6 Sep 2027
Mitch Apau runs his contract down
5 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Slonim money.
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Crisis
Match9 Aug 2027
Slonim are in real trouble now
Position 11, 21 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market9 Aug 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“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.
Match7 Aug 2027
5 matches without a win for Slonim
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Slonim are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Aug 2027
82 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom9 Aug 2027
166% of the income goes out in wages at Slonim
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.
Match7 Aug 2027
0-1 to Baranovichi, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“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.
Market9 Aug 2027
Lokomotiv Gomel are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Slonim will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Uneasy
Market12 Jul 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad12 Jul 2027
110 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom12 Jul 2027
Wages eat 191% of everything Slonim earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Market12 Jul 2027
The name of Danila Antonov has come up in conversations Slonim were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Egor Petrov 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.
Match10 Jul 2027
A 1-1 draw with Ostrovets leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Crisis
Market14 Jun 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
138 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom14 Jun 2027
259% of the income goes out in wages at Slonim
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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Mitch Apau
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match12 Jun 2027
A bad afternoon for Slonim against Orsha
0-1 to Orsha, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Steady
Market26 Apr 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad26 Apr 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match24 Apr 2027
Slonim and Lida take a point apiece
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Boardroom26 Apr 2027
Slonim counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Slonim now.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Mitch Apau asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad26 Apr 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Slonim have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Crisis
Market19 Apr 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Match17 Apr 2027
Bumprom Gomel left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
Wages eat 269% of everything Slonim earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Mitch Apau 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.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
Slonim are $2.2M 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Hamidou Ba knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market19 Apr 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Haruki Saruta may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Artem Trushinskiy has let it be known that he does not like the way Slonim are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
Market19 Apr 2027
The Ilya Lebedev talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Slonim know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Market15 Mar 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match13 Mar 2027
7 matches without a win for Slonim
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Slonim are no longer polite ones.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Denis Miskevich: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Slonim have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad15 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Mitch Apau
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match13 Mar 2027
Slonim come up short against Orsha
Orsha left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market15 Mar 2027
The name of Marat Kalinchenko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Slonim say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
336% of the income goes out in wages at Slonim
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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Hamidou Ba knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mitch Apau and Slonim agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market8 Feb 2027
He is 19, and nobody at Slonim signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market8 Feb 2027
He is 18, and nobody at Slonim signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Alexandr Turuk
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Somebody is after Mitch Apau’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Mitch Apau suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Slonim have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market8 Feb 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Slonim know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Market1 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Feb 2027
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Mitch Apau, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mitch Apau commits to Slonim for another 1 years.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Zack Henry is 19, and Slonim have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market1 Feb 2027
Archie Taylor is 19, and Slonim have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.