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Steady
Squad1 Nov 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.
Squad1 Nov 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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Dinamo Brest will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Azam Radzhabov Azam Radzhabov says Dinamo Brest went back on their word
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Steady
Squad4 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Thomas Grøgaard and Dinamo Brest agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Oct 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Voices raised on the Dinamo Brest training ground
Two players, one bad tackle and a session that had to be stopped. It was over in a minute; it was outside the gates in an hour.
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Steady
Market28 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match26 Jun 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Dinamo Brest did not have in the autumn.
Match26 Jun 2027
No end in sight to Dinamo Brest 's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dinamo Brest has to find a result from somewhere.
Maxim Kovel Dinamo Brest turn down Vitebsk for Maxim Kovel
Squad28 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Thomas Grøgaard
“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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match26 Jun 2027
A 2-2 draw with Torpedo-BelAZ leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad28 Jun 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad28 Jun 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dinamo Brest , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market28 Jun 2027
The name of Nikita Stepanov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Dinamo Brest say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Match10 Apr 2027
No end in sight to Dinamo Brest 's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dinamo Brest has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Thomas Grøgaard
“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.
Match10 Apr 2027
0-1 to Minsk , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom12 Apr 2027
Nobody left the Dinamo Brest dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Alexey Lavrik 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.
Market12 Apr 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dinamo Brest know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Market28 Dec 2026
Alexey Lavrik 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 Dinamo Brest can pretend not to have heard.
Market28 Dec 2026
Ilya Sedro has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Brest they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 144% of everything Dinamo Brest 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.
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Upbeat
Match19 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Dinamo Brest did not have in the autumn.
Market21 Sep 2026
Ilya Yurkevich has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Brest they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match19 Sep 2026
Three points for Dinamo Brest , 2-0 the final word against Minsk in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Ivan Zenkov
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dinamo Brest , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match19 Aug 2026
Lida are out and Dinamo Brest go through, 0-0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“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.
Match22 Aug 2026
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad24 Aug 2026
At 20 years old, Egor Khralenkov became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.