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Market8 Feb 2027
“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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The deal with Belshina 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.
Squad8 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ivan Vostrov arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Ivan Vostrov has, at Dnepr Mogilev, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Orsha have kept their man, and Dnepr Mogilev go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
“I did not go to BATE to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dnepr Mogilev and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 0 matches say the rest.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrey Potapenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Savely Zolkin commits to Dnepr Mogilev for another 3 years.
Market8 Feb 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Andrey Potapenko has his answer from Dnepr Mogilev; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dnepr Mogilev may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market1 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. Dnepr Mogilev have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market1 Feb 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Ostrovets come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Dnepr Mogilev did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Egor Karpitskiy 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 targets1 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slonim have kept their man, and Dnepr Mogilev go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market1 Feb 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ruslan 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.
The dugout1 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.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
A loan enquiry to Orsha: 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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Squad25 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Kirill Zabelin out for 18 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dnepr Mogilev will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market25 Jan 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Egor Karpitskiy 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.
The dugout25 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.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
112% of the income goes out in wages at Dnepr Mogilev
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 dugout25 Jan 2027
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 Egor Karpitskiy is on it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Kirill Zabelin 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 Kirill Zabelin trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market25 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dnepr Mogilev know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Dnepr Mogilev. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Squad18 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Kirill Zabelin out for 25 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dnepr Mogilev will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Kirill Kirilenko 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 dugout18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roman Piletskiy, and the manager let it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrey Potapenko 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 dugout18 Jan 2027
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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Nenad Perović knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dnepr Mogilev, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Squad11 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Kirill Zabelin out for 32 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dnepr Mogilev will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad11 Jan 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Muzaffar Gurbanov 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 dugout11 Jan 2027
Kirill Tsepenkov 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Kirill Zabelin has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
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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Squad4 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Kirill Zabelin out for 39 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dnepr Mogilev will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Egor Karpitskiy 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 dugout4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kirill Kirilenko, and the manager let it.
Market4 Jan 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dnepr Mogilev, another week without a signature from Vladislav Dybin.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Daniil Zhabrakov is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
The dugout4 Jan 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 Dnepr Mogilev, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
Market4 Jan 2027
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Yaroslav Chistyakov leaves Dnepr Mogilev the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Squad28 Dec 2026
Sergey Rusak breaks a bone — 38 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Egor Karpitskiy 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
172% of the income goes out in wages at Dnepr Mogilev
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 dugout28 Dec 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Roman Piletskiy 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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Squad21 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Sergey Rusak out for 45 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dnepr Mogilev will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market21 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Dmitriy Guschenko 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Roman Piletskiy 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 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladislav Tarasenko, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Andrey Potapenko has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev 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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Squad14 Dec 2026
Sergey Rusak breaks a bone — 52 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 52 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market14 Dec 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dnepr Mogilev they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Dec 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roman Piletskiy, and the manager let it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
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.
The dugout14 Dec 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vladislav Tarasenko trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market14 Dec 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Muzaffar Gurbanov signs something — a contract at Dnepr Mogilev or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
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Squad7 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Sergey Rusak out for 59 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dnepr Mogilev will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dnepr Mogilev may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Egor Karpitskiy 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 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday. The order of those three tells you everything about what a football club actually values.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Roman Piletskiy 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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Boardroom30 Nov 2026
The season a town measures the next twenty against. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Confirmed, mathematical, and a town awake all night. Whatever else the season contained, it finishes a division higher than it started.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Sergey Rusak out for 66 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dnepr Mogilev will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Kirill Kirilenko: 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.” Dnepr Mogilev have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Egor Karpitskiy 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 170% of everything Dnepr Mogilev 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
45 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Roman Piletskiy 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
Egor Karpitskiy has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev 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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Squad23 Nov 2026
Sergey Rusak breaks a bone — 73 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 73 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dnepr Mogilev may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market23 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Egor Karpitskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladislav Dybin, and the manager let it.
Loan watch23 Nov 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 Dnepr Mogilev, and 2 appearances in 14 say he has earned the hearing.
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Squad16 Nov 2026
Sergey Rusak breaks a bone — 80 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 80 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market16 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yaroslav Chistyakov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dnepr Mogilev the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Andrey Potapenko 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 dugout16 Nov 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 Dnepr Mogilev, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikolay Sobolev, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Erik Torosyan has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Dnepr Mogilev will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout16 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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Squad9 Nov 2026
Sergey Rusak breaks a bone — 88 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Egor Karpitskiy 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 Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Muzaffar Gurbanov 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
Roman Piletskiy has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev 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.
The dugout9 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nikolay Sobolev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Squad2 Nov 2026
Sergey Rusak breaks a bone — 95 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 95 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Alexey Dunaev 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
170% of the income goes out in wages at Dnepr Mogilev
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
“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.
Market2 Nov 2026
“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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
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.
Market2 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dnepr Mogilev know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
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 Vladislav Dybin has written the date down.
Squad2 Nov 2026
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Dnepr Mogilev the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
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Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Sergey Rusak out for 102 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dnepr Mogilev will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Alexey Yazepov 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Alexey Yazepov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexey Yazepov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dnepr Mogilev the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Dmitriy Guschenko 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladislav Dybin, and the manager let it.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Niva to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dnepr Mogilev and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 10 matches say the rest.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Andrey Potapenko 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Andrey Potapenko has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev 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.
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.
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Squad19 Oct 2026
Sergey Rusak breaks a bone — 109 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 109 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market19 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dnepr Mogilev they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Sergey Rusak 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Muzaffar Gurbanov 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 dugout19 Oct 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 Kirill Zabelin is on it.
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Squad12 Oct 2026
Sergey Rusak breaks a bone — 116 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 116 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Egor Karpitskiy 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 dugout12 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
15 new faces, and Dnepr Mogilev 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Roman Piletskiy has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev 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.
The dugout12 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.
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Squad5 Oct 2026
Sergey Rusak breaks a bone — 123 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 123 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Egor Karpitskiy 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 200% of everything Dnepr Mogilev 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
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrey Potapenko 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
“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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Squad28 Sep 2026
Sergey Rusak breaks a bone — 130 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 130 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Egor Karpitskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch28 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 Dnepr Mogilev, and 2 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Muzaffar Gurbanov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Kirill Tsepenkov 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.
The dugout28 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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Squad21 Sep 2026
137 days out for Sergey Rusak after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Dnepr Mogilev will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Maxim Aleksievich 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yaroslav Chistyakov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dnepr Mogilev the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladislav Dybin, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Kirill Kirilenko 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Kirill Zabelin has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
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 Fedor Yurkevich has written the date down.
Market21 Sep 2026
Dnepr Mogilev opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Vladislav Tarasenko stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.
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Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Sergey Rusak out for 144 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dnepr Mogilev will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 19 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at Dnepr Mogilev 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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Daniil Lesko has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Dnepr Mogilev have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Dnepr Mogilev training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vladislav Dybin 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Alexey Dunaev 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kirill Yablonski 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Viktar Hryshyn 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.
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
15 new faces, and Dnepr Mogilev 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.
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Squad7 Sep 2026
Vladislav Dybin 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Alexey Dunaev 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
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The award goes to Egor Karpitskiy, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Market7 Sep 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Vladislav Tarasenko has his answer from Dnepr Mogilev; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kirill Zabelin, and the manager let it.
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Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match26 Aug 2026
Out, 2‑3 to Dinamo Brest, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.33 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match29 Aug 2026
5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Kirill Kirilenko 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 3‑2 win over Slonim, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces31 Aug 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.
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Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
Gomel are out and Dnepr Mogilev go through, 3‑2 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.48, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Nikolay Sobolev at 19 — 7.81
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Nikolay Sobolev did not need any: 7.81, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match22 Aug 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Dnepr Mogilev have 3 straight wins of it.
Boardroom24 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dnepr Mogilev is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Kirill Kirilenko 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Egor Karpitskiy’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Dnepr Mogilev.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Muzaffar Gurbanov has come up in conversations Dnepr Mogilev were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Match12 Aug 2026
Slutsk are out and Dnepr Mogilev go through, 0‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.18, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Kirill Kirilenko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match15 Aug 2026
Three points for Dnepr Mogilev, 3‑2 the final word against Ostrovets in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Dnepr Mogilev asked and Slutsk said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces17 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.39, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Triumph
Match8 Aug 2026
3‑0, and Kirill Tsepenkov took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Dnepr Mogilev tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.85 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Arsenal Dzerzhinsk had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kirill Kirilenko 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 targets10 Aug 2026
Dnepr Mogilev asked and Slavia Mozyr said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Egor Karpitskiy 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Marked 8.70 — 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Valery 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.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Volna Pinsk, and it could have been more.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Vadim Arutyunyan, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.96
A mark of 7.96 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.98 for the rest of it.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dmitriy Lisakovich and Dnepr Mogilev agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 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 Dnepr Mogilev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
He is 22 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Danila Glushakov makes the wrong kind of headline
Dealt with internally, which is the phrase a club uses when it would rather nobody asked twice. He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday.