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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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 249% 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 dugout2 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.
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.
Market2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout2 Nov 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Bumprom Gomel. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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The dugout26 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.
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
Too much change too quickly at Bumprom Gomel
16 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Yaroslav Makushinskiy trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout26 Oct 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.
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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The dugout19 Oct 2026
Kirill Sidorenko: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bumprom Gomel have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 18 days on the sidelines for Grigory Komovnikov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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.
The dugout19 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Muzaffar Gurbanov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Bumprom Gomel will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Uneasy
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad12 Oct 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.
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
Ilya Udodov gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
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Uneasy
Market5 Oct 2026
“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.
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 317% 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.
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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Rashid Yevloev
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Alikhan Fazylov has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
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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 Pavel Vakulich, 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.
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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.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. BATE have kept their man, and Bumprom Gomel go back to a list with one name crossed off 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Muzaffar Gurbanov is on it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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 dugout21 Sep 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Bumprom Gomel. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Uneasy
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 15 in, 0 out at Bumprom Gomel
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 15 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stanislau Arlouski is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
A loan enquiry to BATE: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Artem Zhevnerenko 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.
The dugout7 Sep 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.
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.
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Uneasy
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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Minsk is saying, and nobody at Bumprom Gomel is enjoying the guessing.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ivan Zhestkin 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 Minsk have kept their man, and Bumprom Gomel go back to a list with one name crossed off 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Ilya Udodov gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad31 Aug 2026
16 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Dzmitry Skavysh chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
9 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.
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.
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.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Bumprom Gomel asked and BATE said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match22 Aug 2026
0‑2 to Dnepr Mogilev, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad24 Aug 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
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 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Dzmitry Skavysh to a room that had heard them before.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
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.
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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
Out, 1‑2 to Naftan, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
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
Muzaffar Gurbanov scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Niva, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pavel Vakulich, and the manager let it.
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.
Market17 Aug 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 dugout17 Aug 2026
“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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Grigory Komovnikov has, at Bumprom Gomel, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. BATE have kept their man, and Bumprom Gomel go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ivan Chalavach 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. Andrei Klimovich 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Artem Gordeichuk 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. Sergei Nekhaichik 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.
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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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Denis Miskevich is in the works
Bumprom Gomel have made the call to Slonim. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Match1 Aug 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Baranovichi defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.