“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dinamo Brest have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Dinamo Brest have done the hard part with NK Maribor, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Shakhtar is saying, and nobody at Dinamo Brest is enjoying the guessing.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniil Chernyavskiy will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Brest the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Nikita Stepanov 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Dinamo Brest training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Žan-Luk Leban 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.
Dinamo Brest asked and Dinamo Tbilisi said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
“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 The request is on a desk at Dinamo Brest, and it is not being withdrawn.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Sogdiana is saying, and nobody at Dinamo Brest is enjoying the guessing.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Dinamo Brest training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Žan-Luk Leban 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.
Dinamo Brest asked and Alashkert said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Brest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
A loan enquiry to Dinamo Tbilisi: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Dinamo Brest have lost him in all but the paperwork.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Dinamo Brest have done the hard part with Shakhtar, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Brest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The phone has started ringing about Maxim Belov again, and this time the name on the line is FK Senica. Dinamo Brest are listening politely and promising nothing.
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.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Brest can pretend not to have heard.
Nikita Stepanov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Žan-Luk Leban 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.
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 Yegor Kortsov is on it.
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Vasiliy Vasilenko has written the date down.
Position 2, 20 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Nikita Stepanov 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Žan-Luk Leban 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.
5 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.
Nikita Stepanov 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 easiest signature of my career.” Mikhail Bondarenko and Dinamo Brest agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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.
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Dinamo Brest will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Nobody at Dinamo Brest 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.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ivan Zenkov signs something — a contract at Dinamo Brest or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Maxim Grechikha has just signed for Dinamo Brest, and for once the answer mattered.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Brest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Žan-Luk Leban 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.
Maxim Grechikha is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
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 Vladislav Lyakh is on it.
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Anton Susha arrives at Dinamo Brest with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
Nikita Stepanov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Žan-Luk Leban 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.
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 Yegor Kortsov is on it.
Position 2, 20 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
“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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Dinamo Brest training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vasiliy Vasilenko 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.
Nobody at Dinamo Brest 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.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Dinamo Brest. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Maxim Belov signs something — a contract at Dinamo Brest or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Nikita Stepanov 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Žan-Luk Leban 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.
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 Vladislav Lozhkin is on it.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dinamo Brest, and both men came out saying it was fine.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ivan Zenkov signs something — a contract at Dinamo Brest or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Brest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Denis Grechikho was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Roman Gritskevich trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Ilya Branovets arrives at 36 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dinamo Brest, another week without a signature from Alexey Semenov.
A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Dinamo Brest have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Igor Malaschitskiy signs something — a contract at Dinamo Brest or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Done, and with games to spare. Next season has floodlit nights against clubs from other countries in it, and the accounts have a line they did not have last year.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vasiliy Vasilenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Nobody at Dinamo Brest 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.
Nikita Stepanov 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Dinamo Brest training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Žan-Luk Leban 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.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Igor Malaschitskiy and Dinamo Brest agree another 4 years.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Dinamo Brest has been clear about where Vasiliy Vasilenko stands, which is more than many ever get.
Nobody at Dinamo Brest 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.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dinamo Brest have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Nikita Stepanov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Dinamo Brest training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Žan-Luk Leban 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 paperwork is done long before the player is. Artem Kuratnik has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Dinamo Brest have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Egor Signevich is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
4 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.
Nobody at Dinamo Brest 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Brest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
5 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.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Roman Yuzepchuk trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dinamo Brest, another week without a signature from Nikolay Leshkevich.
Denis Grechikho 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Dinamo Brest training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Žan-Luk Leban 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.
Nobody at Dinamo Brest 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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Roman Yuzepchuk trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Vasiliy Vasilenko may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Position 2, 20 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Nikita Stepanov 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Žan-Luk Leban 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.
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 Denis M. Kovalevich is on it.
Nikita Stepanov 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vasiliy Vasilenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Dinamo Brest has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Brest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Žan-Luk Leban 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.
Volna Pinsk will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Dmitriy Lesnyak has pre-agreed a move to Dinamo Brest, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hleb Gordeichuk is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Anton Pavlov 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.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Denis M. Kovalevich and Dinamo Brest agree another 4 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
15 new faces, and Dinamo Brest 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.
Nobody at Dinamo Brest 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.
In brief
The dugoutMaxim Belov asks for a word with the manager
Nikita Stepanov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Žan-Luk Leban 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.
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yegor Kortsov and Dinamo Brest agree another 3 years.
The young player of the month award goes to a 20-year-old at Dinamo Brest who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
Nobody at Dinamo Brest 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.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dinamo Brest, another week without a signature from Alexey Semenov.
Nikita Stepanov 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.
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
At 20 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.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Brest is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Nikita Stepanov 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 paperwork is done long before the player is. Maxim Grechikha has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Dinamo Brest have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Maxim Belov 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Anorthosis have kept their man, and Dinamo Brest go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Yegor Kortsov. 2‑1 against Minsk, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Denis M. Kovalevich 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.
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Minsk tried to reorganise, Dinamo Brest did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
The dugoutMaxim Belov dropped after a run of poor form
The dugoutThe manager’s verdict
7Edition
The Dinamo Brest Sentinel
14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondentUpbeat
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Egor Khralenkov, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.93
A mark of 7.93 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 19 signed and 1 gone
That is the business done at Dinamo Brest until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Dinamo Brest have done the hard part with Olimpija Ljubljana, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Dinamo Brest offered $28.0K; Naftan said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Naftan will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Alexandr Alexandrovich has pre-agreed a move to Dinamo Brest, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Crvena Zvezda have kept their man, and Dinamo Brest go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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.
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
A brace, and Yegor Kortsov takes the afternoon — 8.77
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Yegor Kortsov provided it, and the 8.77 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Dinamo Brest asked and Wrexham said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Vasiliy Vasilenko has just signed for Dinamo Brest, and for once the answer mattered.
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Dinamo Brest have paid $89.0K for Vasiliy Vasilenko, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Slutsk will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Vadim Kurlovich has pre-agreed a move to Dinamo Brest, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Denis M. Kovalevich provided it, and the 9.69 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
118 minutes played. Denis M. Kovalevich found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Dnepr Mogilev went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Ivan Zenkov delivers — 7.85
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Ivan Zenkov scored, was marked 7.85, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
“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 Dinamo Brest, and it is not being withdrawn.
Slavia Mozyr did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $41.0K for Pavel Chikida, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
$89.0K on the table at Baranovichi. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Denis Grechikho provided it, and the 8.10 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yegor Kortsov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Brest the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Igor Monich has, at Dinamo Brest, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Anorthosis keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
The offer went to Dinamo Minsk this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Nikita Stepanov 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.
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Dinamo Brest have done the hard part with Niva, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Pyunik keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Yegor Kortsov has agreed terms with BATE for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Brest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
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.
In brief
Player ratingsDenis M. Kovalevich was on a different afternoon to everybody else
Two goals and a mark of 8.26 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The offer from BATE for Yegor Kortsov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at NK Maribor is saying, and nobody at Dinamo Brest is enjoying the guessing.
Nikita Stepanov 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.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Daniil Prokopchuk has just signed for Dinamo Brest, and for once the answer mattered.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Roman Yuzepchuk and Dinamo Brest agree another 3 years.
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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Suduva have kept their man, and Dinamo Brest go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Dinamo Brest training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Denis Grechikho 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.
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
In brief
SquadDinamo Brest are still strangers to each other