From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Naftan waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Isloch is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Isloch
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Isloch are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Isloch
Evgeniy Yudchits 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
A row about effort at Isloch
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Svirepa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrey Makarenko, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
8 new faces, and Isloch 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
A loan move for Preslav Bachev is in the works
Isloch have made the call to Arda. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Steady
Match26 Aug 2026
Isloch bow out of the cup
Torpedo-BelAZ go through and Isloch go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $350.0K sale of Maxim Kovalevich
He is going to Dinamo Brest, the club has $350.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Isloch can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
Ilja Skrobotov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Isloch they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Ilja Skrobotov 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The offer went to Gomel 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Dinamo Brest pay $350.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Isloch asked and Ujpest said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 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 Isloch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Upbeat
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 42. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match19 Aug 2026
Isloch win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 124th minute. Slavia Mozyr will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Market24 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Isloch have done the hard part with Slavia Mozyr, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Isloch
Evgeniy Yudchits and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Sergi Abramishvili 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Dinamo Brest have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Maxim Kovalevich. The answer from Isloch has not changed — yet.
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Upbeat
Match12 Aug 2026
Isloch through in the cup
A 3‑2 win over Lokomotiv Gomel, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match12 Aug 2026
The 86th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Maxim Kovalevich decided nobody was going anywhere. Lokomotiv Gomel had no time left to answer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.61 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market17 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Isloch, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with Baranovichi; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market17 Aug 2026
Uni-X Labs come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Isloch did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market17 Aug 2026
Isloch pay Gomel $360.0K for a proper upgrade
Gomel did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $360.0K for Damir Shaikhtdinov, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$97.0K on the table at Slavia Mozyr. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
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Steady
Market10 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Legia keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Gomel 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Isloch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Isloch asked and Volna Pinsk said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Gleb Sereda has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Isloch have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mikalai Yablonski is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vadzim Dragun has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ruslan Chalavach is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.74 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andrey Klimovich and Isloch agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Isloch
Evgeniy Yudchits was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match1 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Isloch and Dinamo Brest, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match1 Aug 2026
It finished 4‑2, and it was Vladimir Khvaschinskiy’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Isloch.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Vladislav Zhuravlev 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 ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.