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Steady
Match21 Aug 2027
0‑3 against Arsenal Dzerzhinsk, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market23 Aug 2027
Erisjon Balla 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 Bumprom Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
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Market23 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Bumprom Gomel have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad23 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bumprom Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
The dugout23 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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Nobody left the Bumprom Gomel 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.
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Steady
Market16 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bumprom Gomel is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, and a scan that said otherwise. He goes back to Baranovichi; Bumprom Gomel go back to the market; and both will insist there is no story here.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Bumprom Gomel now.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Zhevnerenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad16 Aug 2027
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Dmitriy Kaplunov will call it something else in private.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Mikita Stasevich was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Bumprom Gomel dressing room was either.
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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.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Volna Pinsk is saying, and nobody at Bumprom Gomel is enjoying the guessing.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
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Squad9 Aug 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Zhevnerenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom9 Aug 2027
Wages swallow 150% of the Bumprom Gomel income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mikhail Kazimir, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sergey Bulynenok and Bumprom Gomel agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Sergey Bulynenok and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
A loan move for Artur Dresmanis is in the works
Bumprom Gomel have made the call to Baranovichi. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Upbeat
Market2 Aug 2027
Maxim Samotoy 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 Bumprom Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.81, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market2 Aug 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bumprom Gomel is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
The deal with BATE is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Match31 Jul 2027
Nobody wants to play Bumprom Gomel right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Artem Miroevskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Zhevnerenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match31 Jul 2027
It finished 2‑1, and it was Artem Miroevskiy’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bumprom Gomel.
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Player ratings26 Jul 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.32, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market26 Jul 2027
Mark Tychko 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 Bumprom Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Bumprom Gomel have done the hard part with Dinamo Minsk, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market26 Jul 2027
The Niva deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Kirill Yakuta reports back to Bumprom Gomel with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad26 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bumprom Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match24 Jul 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kirill Parmonov. 3‑1 against Osipovichi, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Zhevnerenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Match17 Jul 2027
4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Market19 Jul 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bumprom Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market19 Jul 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Vitebsk waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Bumprom Gomel is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.16, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market19 Jul 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kirill Parmonov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bumprom Gomel the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
Mark Tychko, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.85
A mark of 7.85 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
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Squad19 Jul 2027
Artem Miroevskiy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
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Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 39. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad12 Jul 2027
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Boardroom12 Jul 2027
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
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Squad12 Jul 2027
Artem Miroevskiy 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.
Market12 Jul 2027
The name of Mark Tychko has come up in conversations Bumprom Gomel were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words at Bumprom Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Boardroom12 Jul 2027
Wages swallow 168% of the Bumprom Gomel income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
Match10 Jul 2027
Lida left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Steady
Market5 Jul 2027
Maxim Samotoy 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 Bumprom Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Artem Miroevskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Match3 Jul 2027
Ostrovets left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Evgeniy Isachenko, and the manager let it.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Bumprom Gomel have made the call to Dinamo Minsk. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Bumprom Gomel sign 3 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
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Market28 Jun 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bumprom Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Everything agreed with Dinamo Minsk, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words at Bumprom Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Match26 Jun 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Artem Miroevskiy. 1‑0 against Uni-X Labs, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Kirill Parmonov
“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.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Marked 7.84. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Mikita Stasevich kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Market28 Jun 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Kirill Yakuta has his answer from Bumprom Gomel; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Market21 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.
Market21 Jun 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bumprom Gomel is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
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The dugout21 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bumprom Gomel may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom21 Jun 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Bumprom Gomel now.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Marked 7.98. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Crisis
Market14 Jun 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 Bumprom Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Artem Miroevskiy 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Boardroom14 Jun 2027
170% of the income goes out in wages at Bumprom Gomel
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.
Market14 Jun 2027
Maxim Samotoy is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Bumprom Gomel has been clear about where Maxim Samotoy stands, which is more than many ever get.
Match12 Jun 2027
Molodechno left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
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The dugout14 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Ivan Zhestkin
“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.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Artem Miroevskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Bumprom Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Zhevnerenko 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 dugout7 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Sino Absamadov
“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.
Match7 Jun 2027
Half the programme played, position 7, 15 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Marked 7.78 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Bumprom Gomel had the best player on the pitch.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Evgeniy Isachenko
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Evgeniy Isachenko has come out of that comparison in the side, and Bumprom Gomel have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Match5 Jun 2027
It needed Artem Miroevskiy to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Orsha, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Market31 May 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bumprom Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bumprom Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 May 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Zhevnerenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces31 May 2027
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.
Match29 May 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Maxim Samotoy. 2‑0 against Lokomotiv Gomel, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Marked 8.32 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout31 May 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.
The dugout31 May 2027
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.
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Crisis
Market24 May 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 Bumprom Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
Match24 May 2027
Every point is an argument now for Bumprom Gomel
Position 11 and 11 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market24 May 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kirill Parmonov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bumprom Gomel the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout24 May 2027
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Squad24 May 2027
Artem Miroevskiy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom24 May 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Bumprom Gomel now.
Match22 May 2027
3 matches without a goal for Bumprom Gomel
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad24 May 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Zhevnerenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match22 May 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Player ratings17 May 2027
Mark Tychko beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market17 May 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bumprom Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad17 May 2027
Artem Miroevskiy 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.
Squad17 May 2027
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Boardroom17 May 2027
Wages swallow 165% of the Bumprom Gomel income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
The dugout17 May 2027
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The dugout17 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Ovsyanik, and the manager let it.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Marked 7.49 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Bumprom Gomel had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout17 May 2027
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Market10 May 2027
Maxim Samotoy 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 Bumprom Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 May 2027
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Market10 May 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dzmitry Signevich has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 May 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ivan Signevich has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout10 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Artem Miroevskiy, and the manager let it.
The dugout10 May 2027
Something was said to Artem Miroevskiy and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout10 May 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nikita Ovsyanik trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market10 May 2027
“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.
Squad10 May 2027
Ilya Udodov is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
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Squad3 May 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sino Absamadov
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bumprom Gomel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match1 May 2027
A 0‑3 beating by Baranovichi was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad3 May 2027
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
The dugout3 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alikhan Fazylov, and the manager let it.
Boardroom3 May 2027
Nobody left the Bumprom Gomel 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.
The dugout3 May 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad3 May 2027
Sergey Bulynenok was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad3 May 2027
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout3 May 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 Bumprom Gomel, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Squad26 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sino Absamadov
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bumprom Gomel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match24 Apr 2027
There were 85 minutes on the clock and Osipovichi had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Bumprom Gomel did not stop to explain themselves.
Market26 Apr 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bumprom Gomel they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad26 Apr 2027
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Artem Miroevskiy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom26 Apr 2027
The numbers do not look good at Bumprom Gomel
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Zhevnerenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces26 Apr 2027
At 15 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 45. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad19 Apr 2027
31 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bumprom Gomel lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match17 Apr 2027
It had gone 12 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Market19 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Artem Miroevskiy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match17 Apr 2027
Three points for Bumprom Gomel, 3‑1 the final word against Slonim in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Zhevnerenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
Wages eat 156% of everything Bumprom Gomel 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.
The terraces19 Apr 2027
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Apr 2027
39 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bumprom Gomel lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match10 Apr 2027
No end in sight to Bumprom Gomel's wait for a win
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bumprom Gomel has to find a result from somewhere.
Market12 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bumprom Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at Bumprom Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Zhevnerenko 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 terraces12 Apr 2027
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Ilya Udodov
“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.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
7.67, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Bumprom Gomel had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
In brief
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Player ratings
A defender's afternoon for Ilya Udodov
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Artem Zhevnerenko knocks on the manager's door
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Apr 2027
46 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bumprom Gomel lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match3 Apr 2027
No end in sight to Bumprom Gomel's wait for a win
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bumprom Gomel has to find a result from somewhere.
Match31 Mar 2027
Torpedo-BelAZ ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad5 Apr 2027
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Mark Tychko beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout5 Apr 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Artem Miroevskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout5 Apr 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Dzmitry Korzun, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad29 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sino Absamadov
53 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bumprom Gomel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match27 Mar 2027
No end in sight to Bumprom Gomel's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bumprom Gomel has to find a result from somewhere.
Market29 Mar 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bumprom Gomel they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market29 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Artem Miroevskiy 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.
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Bumprom Gomel now.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at Bumprom Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
The dugout29 Mar 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad22 Mar 2027
60 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bumprom Gomel lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market22 Mar 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bumprom Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match20 Mar 2027
8 matches without a win for Bumprom Gomel
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Bumprom Gomel are no longer polite ones.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Bumprom Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Match20 Mar 2027
1‑2 to Volna Pinsk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
Wages eat 151% of everything Bumprom Gomel 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.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Ovsyanik, and the manager let it.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Mikita Stasevich to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Artem Miroevskiy 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad15 Mar 2027
67 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bumprom Gomel lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match13 Mar 2027
7 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.
Match13 Mar 2027
7 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Bumprom Gomel can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad15 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bumprom Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at Bumprom Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Evgeniy Isachenko 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.
Match13 Mar 2027
Molodechno left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout15 Mar 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.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout15 Mar 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 Bumprom Gomel, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad8 Mar 2027
74 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bumprom Gomel lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match6 Mar 2027
6 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Bumprom Gomel can tell you which week it ends in.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bumprom Gomel may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
The instruction came from the boardroom and the dugout did not agree with it. Somebody will go, the fee will be called good business, and the manager will spend the season rebuilding around the space.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ivan Zhestkin and Bumprom Gomel agree another 2 years.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
2 academy graduates step up at Bumprom Gomel
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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at Bumprom Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sino Absamadov
81 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bumprom Gomel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market1 Mar 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bumprom Gomel they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 Mar 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bumprom Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bumprom Gomel may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Window shuts: 2 in, 0 out at Bumprom Gomel
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 2 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets1 Mar 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Orsha is saying, and nobody at Bumprom Gomel is enjoying the guessing.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Artem Miroevskiy 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.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
The numbers do not look good at Bumprom Gomel
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Transfer targets1 Mar 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad22 Feb 2027
88 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bumprom Gomel lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market22 Feb 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bumprom Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
$99.0K settles it between the clubs for Maxim Makarov
Orsha have accepted the money. What Bumprom Gomel do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Artem Miroevskiy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
Wages swallow 153% of the Bumprom Gomel income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
The dugout22 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Sergey Kruzhilin 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.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Bumprom Gomel have made the call to Dinamo Brest. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout22 Feb 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 Bumprom Gomel, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sino Absamadov
95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bumprom Gomel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market15 Feb 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Bumprom Gomel have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market15 Feb 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bumprom Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad15 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bumprom Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
A loan enquiry to Dinamo Minsk: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Market15 Feb 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Maxim Vospukov has his answer from Bumprom Gomel; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kirill Parmonov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
Sino Absamadov damages knee ligaments — 102 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 102 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market8 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 Bumprom Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Everything agreed with Dinamo Minsk, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yahor Hryshyn has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market8 Feb 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dzmitry Korzun is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kirill Parmonov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout8 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Feb 2027
31 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bumprom Gomel lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 Feb 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bumprom Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Brest have kept their man, and Bumprom Gomel go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Alikhan Fazylov is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Bumprom Gomel has been clear about where Alikhan Fazylov stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ilya Udodov, and the manager let it.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Bumprom Gomel now.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Open for business: Bumprom Gomel enter the window
The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
Artem Miroevskiy damages knee ligaments — 38 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 38 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market25 Jan 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bumprom Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Wages eat 148% of everything Bumprom Gomel 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
No place for Ilya Udodov in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Ilya Udodov has his answer from Bumprom Gomel; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Maxim Vospukov
“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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kirill Parmonov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The terraces25 Jan 2027
The Kirill Parmonov rumours reach the terraces
What was a back-page link has become a chant, and the chant is not friendly. Bumprom Gomel would rather it were settled quietly, and it has stopped being quiet.
Market25 Jan 2027
7 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Bumprom Gomel money.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
Artem Miroevskiy damages knee ligaments — 45 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 45 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Zhevnerenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Nikita Ovsyanik
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
Artem Miroevskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market11 Jan 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Raman Yablonski has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Sergey Kruzhilin 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“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.
The dugout11 Jan 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Bumprom Gomel would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
Artem Miroevskiy 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Zhevnerenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Artem Zhevnerenko, and the manager let it.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Bumprom Gomel now.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Bumprom Gomel have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market28 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bumprom Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Artem Miroevskiy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 260% of the Bumprom Gomel income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivan Zhestkin, and the manager let it.
The dugout28 Dec 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 Bumprom Gomel, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Zhevnerenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Nikita Ovsyanik
“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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Ivan Zhestkin 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kirill Korzun has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Dec 2026
Artem Hryshyn 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 Bumprom Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Sergey Bulynenok and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
He is 17, and nobody at Bumprom Gomel signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kirill Sidorenko, and the manager let it.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Bumprom Gomel now.
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Uneasy
Market30 Nov 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Maxim Samotoy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
251% of the income goes out in wages at Bumprom Gomel
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.
The dugout30 Nov 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Sergey Kruzhilin 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Kirill Sidorenko 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
Squad23 Nov 2026
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad23 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bumprom Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Artem Miroevskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Zhevnerenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Mark Tychko
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Artem Miroevskiy 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mikalai Nekhaichik has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market9 Nov 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pavel Kislyak is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market2 Nov 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
The Bumprom Gomel board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Bumprom Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
251% of the income goes out in wages at Bumprom Gomel
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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Nikita Ovsyanik
“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.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Bumprom Gomel, another week without a signature from Sergey Bulynenok.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Ivan Zhestkin knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ivan Zhestkin trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Artem Zhevnerenko has moved up it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Uneasy
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bumprom Gomel may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sergey Kruzhilin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bumprom Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Nikita Ovsyanik 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 Oct 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dmitry Roslyakov is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Sergey Bulynenok 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sergey Kruzhilin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bumprom Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Valery Ihnatovich is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Yahor Filipenko is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Bumprom Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Zhevnerenko 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Kirill Parmonov
“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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kirill Sidorenko trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bumprom Gomel may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Artem Miroevskiy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 329% of everything Bumprom Gomel 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.
The dugout5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Bumprom Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sergey Kruzhilin 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
15 new faces, and Bumprom Gomel are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bumprom Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sergey Bulynenok, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ilya Udodov 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Artem Miroevskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivan Zhestkin, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bumprom Gomel may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 19 in, 0 out at Bumprom Gomel
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 19 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lokomotiv Gomel have kept their man, and Bumprom Gomel go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yauhen Shikavka has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dzmitry Kavalyou has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ilya Udodov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market14 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Sergey Kruzhilin trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Bumprom Gomel asked and Lokomotiv Gomel said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Bumprom Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ilya Udodov 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Ilya Udodov
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
15 new faces, and Bumprom Gomel are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Dmitry Roslyakov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
5 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Bumprom Gomel can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Sergey Bulynenok was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Brest have kept their man, and Bumprom Gomel go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Evgeniy Isachenko 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sergey Bulynenok, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match22 Aug 2026
0‑4 against Dnepr Mogilev, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Bumprom Gomel's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bumprom Gomel has to find a result from somewhere.
Match22 Aug 2026
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Maxim Samotoy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Naftan have kept their man, and Bumprom Gomel go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maxim Samotoy, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
Naftan ended it 0‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
A cup hiding at Naftan leaves Bumprom Gomel explaining themselves
0-3, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Artem Miroevskiy 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match15 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ilya Udodov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The deal with Dnepr Mogilev is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bumprom Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yahor Noyok has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Artem Hryshyn is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sergei Laptev has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Egor Hleb is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Zhevnerenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad10 Aug 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Bumprom Gomel are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan move for Raman Bykau is in the works
Bumprom Gomel have made the call to BATE. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yaroslav Makushinskiy and Bumprom Gomel agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Artem Miroevskiy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Dmitriy Latykhov did the work nobody counts — 6.69
10 combined actions and 6.69. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ilya Udodov 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Bumprom Gomel are still strangers to each other
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.