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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dinamo Minsk may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Vladimir Obukhov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Dinamo Minsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Papa Ibou Kébé 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
Squad2 Nov 2026
Rosmel Villaneuva 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Dušan Cvetinović 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
52 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Alexey Ivanov: 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.” Dinamo Minsk have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
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 Dinamo Minsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Dinamo Minsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dušan Cvetinović 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
Squad19 Oct 2026
Vladislav Poloz: 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.” Dinamo Minsk have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Dominik Ťapaj is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for Renzo Zambrano, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Vladimir Obukhov 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Dinamo Minsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dušan Cvetinović 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Papa Ibou Kébé, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Dinamo Minsk are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad5 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 Dinamo Minsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Vladimir Obukhov 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
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.95 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Dušan Cvetinović 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 Sep 2026
Words at Dinamo Minsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Papa Ibou Kébé 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.
Squad28 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.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Niva to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dinamo Minsk and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
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Crisis
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 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 Dinamo Minsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Dušan Cvetinović 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
1‑2 to BATE, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad21 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.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Dinamo Minsk, and 2 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
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Steady
Squad14 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 Dinamo Minsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Dinamo Minsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dušan Cvetinović 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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
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.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
At 22 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Three points for Dinamo Minsk, 2‑0 the final word against Vitebsk in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.03 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Uneasy
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Dinamo Minsk
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Dinamo Minsk are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Rosmel Villaneuva 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Vladimir Obukhov 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Yuriy Lovets has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Dinamo Minsk have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad7 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.
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Steady
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Aug 2026
Smorgon ended it 0‑0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Dominik Ťapaj decides it from twelve yards
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Fawaz Abdullahi 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Dinamo Minsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dušan Cvetinović 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
Baranovichi will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Egor Lapun has pre-agreed a move to Dinamo Minsk, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad31 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
The kick that got away from Roman Begunov
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.
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Steady
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 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 Dinamo Minsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Fawaz Abdullahi 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rosmel Villaneuva, and the manager let it.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 7.69. 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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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Molodechno come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Dinamo Minsk did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Gleb Sereda has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Dušan Cvetinović 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Lida will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Alexandr Poznyak has pre-agreed a move to Dinamo Minsk, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Market17 Aug 2026
Alexandr Alexandrovich has left for Minsk in a $38.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Moustapha Djimet 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.
Squad17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Dinamo Minsk
10 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.
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Upbeat
Match8 Aug 2026
The 87th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Renzo Zambrano decided nobody was going anywhere. Molodechno had no time left to answer.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Mikhail Alexandrov has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Fawaz Abdullahi 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
A 3‑2 win over Molodechno, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Dinamo Minsk have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Dinamo Minsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dušan Cvetinović 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 terraces10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fawaz Abdullahi, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
179 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Artem Sokolovskiy has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexey Ivanov and Dinamo Minsk agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Fawaz Abdullahi 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 terraces3 Aug 2026
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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Moustapha Djimet had Dinamo Minsk level again within 4 minutes, and Naftan never got to play with a lead at all.
Market3 Aug 2026
Kirill Kaplenko is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Dinamo Minsk has been clear about where Kirill Kaplenko stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Matvey Dubatovka 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.