From our football correspondent
Steady
Market16 Sep 2030
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Alexandr Berulava reports back to Isloch with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Match14 Sep 2030
A 1-0 win over Belshina, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad16 Sep 2030
31 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad16 Sep 2030
27 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad16 Sep 2030
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Nikita Patsko will call it something else in private.
Squad16 Sep 2030
“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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Uneasy
Market9 Sep 2030
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.
Squad9 Sep 2030
“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.
Match7 Sep 2030
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market9 Sep 2030
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Isloch will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad9 Sep 2030
A season average of 7.27 with 2 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad9 Sep 2030
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Isloch that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market2 Sep 2030
Bruno Buero hands in a written request
“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.
Squad2 Sep 2030
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad2 Sep 2030
105 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match31 Aug 2030
Isloch get the job done against Gomel
A 2-1 win over Gomel, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad2 Sep 2030
“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 Sep 2030
Dnepr Mogilev are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Isloch will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad26 Aug 2030
Andrey Makarenko: 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.” Isloch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match24 Aug 2030
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.
Match24 Aug 2030
A bad afternoon for Isloch against Minsk
0-2 to Minsk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market26 Aug 2030
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Isloch have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Boardroom26 Aug 2030
95% of the income goes out in wages at Isloch
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.
Market26 Aug 2030
Baranovichi are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Isloch will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Aug 2030
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad19 Aug 2030
36 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market19 Aug 2030
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Isloch have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market12 Aug 2030
“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.
Market12 Aug 2030
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market12 Aug 2030
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.
Market12 Aug 2030
Gomel are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Isloch will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad12 Aug 2030
No place for Nikita Patsko on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Isloch pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Squad12 Aug 2030
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market5 Aug 2030
Bruno Buero hands in a written request
“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.
Squad5 Aug 2030
133 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad5 Aug 2030
“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.
Match3 Aug 2030
Torpedo-BelAZ left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market5 Aug 2030
Dnepr Mogilev are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Isloch will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad5 Aug 2030
Nikita Patsko 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match27 Jul 2030
Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad29 Jul 2030
The manager makes an example of Sergey Volkov
“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.
Boardroom29 Jul 2030
105% of the income goes out in wages at Isloch
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.
Market29 Jul 2030
Ostrovets are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Isloch will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market29 Jul 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad29 Jul 2030
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad22 Jul 2030
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad22 Jul 2030
64 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market22 Jul 2030
The name of Alexandr Berulava has come up in conversations Isloch were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market15 Jul 2030
“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.
Squad15 Jul 2030
Yuriy Kravchenko: 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.” Isloch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match13 Jul 2030
No end in sight to Isloch's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Isloch has to find a result from somewhere.
Market15 Jul 2030
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.
Squad15 Jul 2030
The manager makes an example of Alexandr Butko
“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.
Match13 Jul 2030
A 1-1 draw with Naftan leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market8 Jul 2030
Bruno Buero hands in a written request
“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.
Squad8 Jul 2030
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market8 Jul 2030
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.
Match6 Jul 2030
No end in sight to Isloch's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Isloch has to find a result from somewhere.
Market8 Jul 2030
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Isloch is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad8 Jul 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mikhail Ladutsko and Isloch agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Jul 2030
“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.
Boardroom1 Jul 2030
95% of the income goes out in wages at Isloch
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.
Match29 Jun 2030
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market1 Jul 2030
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Isloch will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad1 Jul 2030
The fine is internal, the amount is nobody's business, and the fact that everybody at Isloch knows about it by lunchtime is exactly the point of it.
Market1 Jul 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Jun 2030
92 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match22 Jun 2030
Isloch come up short against Neman
Neman left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market24 Jun 2030
The name of Makar Likhtarovich has come up in conversations Isloch were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market24 Jun 2030
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Isloch will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad24 Jun 2030
“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.
Squad24 Jun 2030
Nikita Patsko 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match15 Jun 2030
6 unbeaten for Isloch
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Isloch did not have in the autumn.
Squad17 Jun 2030
The manager makes an example of Alexandr Butko
“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.
Match15 Jun 2030
A 1-1 draw with Vitebsk leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad17 Jun 2030
A season average of 7.25 with 2 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad17 Jun 2030
Nikita Patsko 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 Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market17 Jun 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market10 Jun 2030
Bruno Buero hands in a written request
“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.
Match8 Jun 2030
A 2-0 win over Volna Pinsk, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad10 Jun 2030
“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.
Squad10 Jun 2030
Alexandr Butko 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.
Market10 Jun 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad10 Jun 2030
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Isloch that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Jun 2030
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad3 Jun 2030
“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.
Boardroom3 Jun 2030
93% of the income goes out in wages at Isloch
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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match25 May 2030
Isloch make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Isloch have 3 straight wins of it.
Match25 May 2030
Three points for Isloch, 1-0 the final word against Molodechno in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad27 May 2030
“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.
Squad27 May 2030
Zakhar Korenkov 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.
Squad27 May 2030
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Alexandr Svirepa has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Isloch know, and have known for weeks.
Market27 May 2030
The name of Ivan Khovalko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match18 May 2030
Gomel made Isloch work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad20 May 2030
The medical room confirms 31 days on the sidelines for Yan Arlouski, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad20 May 2030
The manager makes an example of Zakhar Korenkov
“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.
Squad20 May 2030
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market20 May 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad20 May 2030
Adeola Olaleye 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market13 May 2030
Bruno Buero hands in a written request
“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.
Match11 May 2030
Three points for Isloch, 2-1 the final word against Minsk in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad13 May 2030
“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.
Squad13 May 2030
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Isloch have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market13 May 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad13 May 2030
Adeola Olaleye 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 Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad6 May 2030
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad6 May 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexandr Butko and Isloch agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad6 May 2030
The manager makes an example of Nikita Patsko
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match27 Apr 2030
Isloch come up short against BATE
BATE left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad29 Apr 2030
“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.
Squad29 Apr 2030
Nikita Patsko 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad22 Apr 2030
The manager makes an example of Alexandr Butko
“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.
Squad22 Apr 2030
The medical room confirms 59 days on the sidelines for Yan Arlouski, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match20 Apr 2030
It finished 2-2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market15 Apr 2030
Bruno Buero hands in a written request
“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.
Squad15 Apr 2030
Vladislav Drozd: 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.” Isloch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match13 Apr 2030
Three points for Isloch, 1-0 the final word against Smorgon in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad15 Apr 2030
The medical room confirms 36 days on the sidelines for Timofey Shkurdyuk, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad15 Apr 2030
Alexandr Butko 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.
Market15 Apr 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match3 Apr 2030
Isloch bow out of the cup
Lokomotiv Gomel 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.
Squad8 Apr 2030
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.
Boardroom8 Apr 2030
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Boardroom8 Apr 2030
89% of the income goes out in wages at Isloch
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.
Squad8 Apr 2030
“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.
Match6 Apr 2030
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Dinamo Brest defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match30 Mar 2030
Isloch get the job done against Naftan
A 1-0 win over Naftan, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad1 Apr 2030
“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.
Squad1 Apr 2030
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Isloch have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match23 Mar 2030
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.
Squad25 Mar 2030
“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.
Match23 Mar 2030
Dinamo Minsk left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market25 Mar 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad25 Mar 2030
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad25 Mar 2030
At 23 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Isloch have a decision that made itself.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market18 Mar 2030
Bruno Buero hands in a written request
“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.
Squad18 Mar 2030
“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.
Match16 Mar 2030
Dnepr Mogilev left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match9 Mar 2030
6 unbeaten for Isloch
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Isloch did not have in the autumn.
Squad11 Mar 2030
The manager makes an example of Alexandr Butko
“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.
Match9 Mar 2030
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Neman defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market4 Mar 2030
Pavel Demchuk hands in a written request
“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.
Market4 Mar 2030
The shirt still fits. Ihar Dragun is back at Isloch, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market4 Mar 2030
The shirt still fits. Anton Yablonski is back at Isloch, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market4 Mar 2030
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Boardroom4 Mar 2030
A promise the Isloch board did not keep
There was a commitment, there was a date, and the date went past. Trust at a football club takes years to build and one afternoon to spend.
Squad4 Mar 2030
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market25 Feb 2030
“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.
Market25 Feb 2030
The Neman deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Alexandr Berulava reports back to Isloch with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Market25 Feb 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market18 Feb 2030
Bruno Buero hands in a written request
“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.
Squad18 Feb 2030
The medical room confirms 30 days on the sidelines for Alexandr Berulava, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market18 Feb 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Feb 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Valentino Ulmer commits to Isloch for another 3 years.
Market11 Feb 2030
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Isloch will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market11 Feb 2030
The name of Ilja Skrobotov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad4 Feb 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Adeola Olaleye and Isloch agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market4 Feb 2030
Minsk are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Isloch will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad4 Feb 2030
“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.
Market4 Feb 2030
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Pavel Demchuk has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Isloch.
Boardroom4 Feb 2030
Isloch sign a deal worth $117.0K a year
Commercial news is the news nobody sings about and everything else is paid for with. The board will call it a partnership; the accountants will call it the difference between this squad and a smaller one.
Market4 Feb 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Jan 2030
33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market28 Jan 2030
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Isloch have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market28 Jan 2030
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Alexandr Berulava has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Isloch.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market21 Jan 2030
“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.
Squad21 Jan 2030
58 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad21 Jan 2030
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Jan 2030
The manager makes an example of Vladislav Drozd
“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.
Market14 Jan 2030
The name of Ilja Skrobotov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad14 Jan 2030
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Nurdoolot Stalbekov plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Jan 2030
“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.
Market7 Jan 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad7 Jan 2030
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Alexandr Butko plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Dec 2029
61 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad31 Dec 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Artem Antonov and Isloch agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market31 Dec 2029
The name of Ivan Khovalko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Market24 Dec 2029
“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.
Squad24 Dec 2029
86 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad24 Dec 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Artem Antonov commits to Isloch for another 3 years.
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Uneasy
Squad17 Dec 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lorenzo Crepaldi and Isloch agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad17 Dec 2029
“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.
Market17 Dec 2029
The name of Ilja Skrobotov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Dec 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vladislav Zhuravlev commits to Isloch for another 4 years.
Market10 Dec 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad10 Dec 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Dec 2029
89 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad3 Dec 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ilja Skrobotov commits to Isloch for another 4 years.
Market3 Dec 2029
“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.
Squad3 Dec 2029
The captaincy has been taken off Ivan Khovalko. Isloch will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Boardroom3 Dec 2029
$112.8K a year onto the Isloch books
A new partner, a signature and a photograph nobody will remember. It funds a fortnight of wages, which is more than most headlines on this page can say for themselves.
Squad3 Dec 2029
It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.
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Uneasy
Boardroom26 Nov 2029
Isloch are going up
Promotion, confirmed and mathematical, and a town that will not sleep much tonight. Whatever else this season had in it, it ends a division higher than it began.
Market26 Nov 2029
“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.
Squad26 Nov 2029
“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.
Market26 Nov 2029
He is 20, and nobody at Isloch signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market26 Nov 2029
The name of Nurdoolot Stalbekov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad26 Nov 2029
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Maxim Kovalevich keeps the shirt for now, at Isloch's convenience rather than his own.
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Uneasy
Market19 Nov 2029
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.
Market19 Nov 2029
The name of Ilja Skrobotov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad19 Nov 2029
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Isloch that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Nov 2029
The manager makes an example of Gleb Aldanov
“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.
Market12 Nov 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad12 Nov 2029
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Pavel Demchuk has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Uneasy
Match5 Nov 2029
Isloch are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 42 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad5 Nov 2029
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad5 Nov 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ivan Khovalko commits to Isloch for another 4 years.
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Uneasy
Squad29 Oct 2029
“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.
Market29 Oct 2029
The name of Nurdoolot Stalbekov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad29 Oct 2029
Artem Antonov 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 Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Oct 2029
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market22 Oct 2029
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.
Squad22 Oct 2029
The manager makes an example of Pavel Demchuk
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Oct 2029
Dmitriy Nizhnik: 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.” Isloch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad15 Oct 2029
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Alexandr Selyava, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad15 Oct 2029
“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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Uneasy
Match8 Oct 2029
Isloch are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 42 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad8 Oct 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexandr Butko commits to Isloch for another 2 years.
Squad8 Oct 2029
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Makar Likhtarovich, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market8 Oct 2029
The name of Ivan Khovalko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad8 Oct 2029
Ivan Yerokhin 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 Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market8 Oct 2029
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Bogdan Basalyga may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Uneasy
Market1 Oct 2029
The name of Nurdoolot Stalbekov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
Market1 Oct 2029
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Shota Apridonidze may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad1 Oct 2029
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Maxim Kovalevich plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Uneasy
Market24 Sep 2029
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.
Squad24 Sep 2029
“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.
Market24 Sep 2029
The name of Ilja Skrobotov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Squad17 Sep 2029
Gleb Aldanov: 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.” Isloch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad17 Sep 2029
“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.
Market17 Sep 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Match10 Sep 2029
Isloch are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 42 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad10 Sep 2029
“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.
Squad10 Sep 2029
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Isloch that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Market10 Sep 2029
The name of Ivan Khovalko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Artem Antonov 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.
Market10 Sep 2029
The window shut and Alexandr Selyava is still in the building
Isloch spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Sep 2029
Yuriy Kravchenko: 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.” Isloch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad3 Sep 2029
The award goes to Mikhail Klachkovich, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Squad3 Sep 2029
“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.
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Uneasy
Market27 Aug 2029
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.
Match25 Aug 2029
Niva made Isloch work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad27 Aug 2029
A season average of 7.24 with 3 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Gleb Aldanov 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.
Market27 Aug 2029
The name of Ilja Skrobotov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Andrey Makarenko 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.
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Uneasy
Squad20 Aug 2029
“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.
Market20 Aug 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Adeola Olaleye 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.
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Uneasy
Match13 Aug 2029
Isloch up to position 2
39 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Match11 Aug 2029
No end in sight to Isloch's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Isloch has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad13 Aug 2029
The manager makes an example of Pavel Demchuk
“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.
Squad13 Aug 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad13 Aug 2029
A season average of 7.29 with 1 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match11 Aug 2029
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Osipovichi defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Uneasy
Match4 Aug 2029
No end in sight to Isloch's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Isloch has to find a result from somewhere.
Market6 Aug 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad6 Aug 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kakeru Yamauchi and Isloch agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad6 Aug 2029
“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.
Match4 Aug 2029
Isloch draw a blank against Lida
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Lida defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Nikita Patsko 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 Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Match25 Jul 2029
Isloch bow out of the cup
Dinamo Brest 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.
Match28 Jul 2029
No end in sight to Isloch's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Isloch has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 Jul 2029
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market30 Jul 2029
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.
Market30 Jul 2029
The name of Adeola Olaleye has come up in conversations Isloch were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad30 Jul 2029
“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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Nikita Patsko will call it something else in private.
Match28 Jul 2029
Isloch and Slonim take a point apiece
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market30 Jul 2029
The name of Ilja Skrobotov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Match21 Jul 2029
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.
Match21 Jul 2029
Still nobody has beaten Isloch
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad23 Jul 2029
“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.
Market23 Jul 2029
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Isloch will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Match21 Jul 2029
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Bumprom Gomel came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad23 Jul 2029
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Ivan Yerokhin will call it something else in private.
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Steady
Match16 Jul 2029
Isloch are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 35 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market16 Jul 2029
Danila Firsov hands in a written request
“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.
Squad16 Jul 2029
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match14 Jul 2029
Still nobody has beaten Isloch
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad16 Jul 2029
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Isloch pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Market16 Jul 2029
Niva are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Isloch will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad16 Jul 2029
“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.
Squad16 Jul 2029
A season average of 7.27 with 1 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match14 Jul 2029
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Ostrovets will be the happier side with the point.
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Steady
Market9 Jul 2029
“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.
Squad9 Jul 2029
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Isloch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market9 Jul 2029
The name of Danila Firsov has come up in conversations Isloch were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad9 Jul 2029
The manager makes an example of Nikita Patsko
“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.
Squad9 Jul 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Yuri Hryshyn and Isloch agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match7 Jul 2029
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Uni-X Labs will be the happier side with the point.
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Steady
Squad2 Jul 2029
Ivan Yerokhin: 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.” Isloch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market2 Jul 2029
Niva 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.
Market2 Jul 2029
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.
Squad2 Jul 2029
“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.
Match30 Jun 2029
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market2 Jul 2029
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Alexandr Selyava may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Upbeat
Market25 Jun 2029
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.
Match23 Jun 2029
Orsha made Isloch work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad25 Jun 2029
“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.
Market25 Jun 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Adeola Olaleye 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.
Market25 Jun 2029
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Uladzimir Savitski moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
Market25 Jun 2029
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Yan Shikavka moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
The terraces25 Jun 2029
The press cannot get enough of Ilja Skrobotov
Praise is not points and never has been. It is, however, the fastest way for a valuation to move, and everybody in the game reads the same pages.
Squad25 Jun 2029
The selectors could not leave Alexandr Svirepa out
6.99 across ninety minutes and a place in the division's team of the week. He was the best player on that pitch and everybody there knew it.
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Upbeat
Match18 Jun 2029
Isloch are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 29 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market18 Jun 2029
Danila Firsov hands in a written request
“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.
Market18 Jun 2029
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Isloch has been clear about where Alexandr Selyava stands, which is more than many ever get.
Match16 Jun 2029
Isloch get the job done against Slutsk
A 1-0 win over Slutsk, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market18 Jun 2029
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Isloch have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad18 Jun 2029
The manager makes an example of Pavel Demchuk
“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.
Market18 Jun 2029
Niva are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Isloch will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad18 Jun 2029
A season average of 7.21 with 1 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad18 Jun 2029
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Steady
Squad11 Jun 2029
“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.
Match9 Jun 2029
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Lokomotiv Gomel defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Market11 Jun 2029
The name of Nurdoolot Stalbekov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Match30 May 2029
Cup progress for Isloch
A 1-0 win over Minsk, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market4 Jun 2029
Danila Firsov 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.
Match2 Jun 2029
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad4 Jun 2029
“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.
Squad4 Jun 2029
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Isloch have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Market4 Jun 2029
The name of Ilja Skrobotov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
Match26 May 2029
11 unbeaten for Isloch
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Isloch did not have in the autumn.
Squad28 May 2029
“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.
Match26 May 2029
Honours even between Isloch and Niva
2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market28 May 2029
The name of Ivan Khovalko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad28 May 2029
Yuriy Kravchenko 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.
Market28 May 2029
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Danila Firsov may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Upbeat
Match21 May 2029
Isloch are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 24 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad21 May 2029
“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.
Market21 May 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Triumph
Match12 May 2029
Still nobody has beaten Isloch
The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad14 May 2029
Adeola Olaleye: 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.” Isloch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market14 May 2029
Danila Firsov hands in a written request
“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.
Match12 May 2029
Osipovichi made Isloch work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad14 May 2029
The manager makes an example of Ivan Yerokhin
“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.
Market14 May 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Match5 May 2029
Still nobody has beaten Isloch
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market7 May 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Isloch is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad7 May 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nikita Patsko and Isloch agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 May 2029
“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 May 2029
The captaincy has been taken off Anton Shramchenko. Isloch will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Match5 May 2029
Isloch draw a blank against Lida
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Lida defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Triumph
Match28 Apr 2029
Isloch make it 5 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Isloch have 5 straight wins of it.
Match28 Apr 2029
Three points for Isloch, 1-0 the final word against Slonim in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad30 Apr 2029
“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.
Squad30 Apr 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad30 Apr 2029
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market30 Apr 2029
The name of Ivan Khovalko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
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Triumph
Match23 Apr 2029
Isloch are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 17 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match21 Apr 2029
Isloch make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Isloch have 4 straight wins of it.
Match21 Apr 2029
Three points for Isloch, 1-0 the final word against Bumprom Gomel in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad23 Apr 2029
“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.
Squad23 Apr 2029
“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.
Market23 Apr 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Triumph
Market16 Apr 2029
Danila Firsov hands in a written request
“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.
Match14 Apr 2029
Isloch make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Isloch have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad16 Apr 2029
“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.
Match14 Apr 2029
Ostrovets made Isloch work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market16 Apr 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad16 Apr 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Triumph
Match4 Apr 2029
Cup progress for Isloch
A 1-0 win over Orsha, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad9 Apr 2029
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market9 Apr 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Isloch is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match7 Apr 2029
Uni-X Labs made Isloch work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad9 Apr 2029
“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.
Squad9 Apr 2029
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Mikhail Klachkovich knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
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Steady
Squad2 Apr 2029
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad2 Apr 2029
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Isloch have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Squad2 Apr 2029
The captaincy has been taken off Maxim Kovalevich. Isloch will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
1 sponsors walk away from Isloch
Deals ran out and nothing came in behind them. A commercial department only fails in public once the football has been failing in private for a while.
Match31 Mar 2029
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Volna Pinsk came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Pavel Demchuk 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 Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Mar 2029
The match ball belongs to Alexandr Butko, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match24 Mar 2029
Three points for Isloch, 3-1 the final word against Orsha in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad26 Mar 2029
“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.
Market26 Mar 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Pavel Demchuk 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.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Maxim Kovalevich joins up with his country. Isloch lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
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Steady
Squad19 Mar 2029
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Isloch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match17 Mar 2029
Three points for Isloch, 2-0 the final word against Slutsk in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad19 Mar 2029
“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.
Squad19 Mar 2029
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market19 Mar 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Nurdoolot Stalbekov has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Isloch know, and have known for weeks.
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Crisis
Squad12 Mar 2029
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Isloch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market12 Mar 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Isloch is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match10 Mar 2029
Lokomotiv Gomel left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad12 Mar 2029
“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 Mar 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Valery Rios and Isloch agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market12 Mar 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Market5 Mar 2029
Danila Firsov hands in a written request
“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.
Squad5 Mar 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Maxim Kovalevich commits to Isloch for another 4 years.
Market5 Mar 2029
The shirt still fits. Yahor Pavlov is back at Isloch, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market5 Mar 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market5 Mar 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad5 Mar 2029
“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.
Boardroom5 Mar 2029
A promise the Isloch board did not keep
There was a commitment, there was a date, and the date went past. Trust at a football club takes years to build and one afternoon to spend.
Match3 Mar 2029
A 1-1 draw with Arsenal Dzerzhinsk leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad5 Mar 2029
At 21 years old, Mikhail Klachkovich became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
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Crisis
Squad26 Feb 2029
Gleb Aldanov: 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.” Isloch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Feb 2029
“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.
Market26 Feb 2029
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Isloch will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market26 Feb 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad26 Feb 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market26 Feb 2029
The window shut and Yan Savitski is still in the building
Isloch spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.
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Crisis
Boardroom19 Feb 2029
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Isloch
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad19 Feb 2029
“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.
Market19 Feb 2029
The name of Danila Firsov has come up in conversations Isloch were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market19 Feb 2029
Danila Firsov is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Isloch has been clear about where Danila Firsov stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market19 Feb 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Yuriy Kravchenko 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.
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Crisis
Squad12 Feb 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vladislav Bolotnikov commits to Isloch for another 3 years.
Squad12 Feb 2029
32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market12 Feb 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Squad5 Feb 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andrey Makarenko and Isloch agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Feb 2029
The manager makes an example of Ivan Yerokhin
“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.
Market5 Feb 2029
Niva are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Isloch will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market5 Feb 2029
“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.
Market5 Feb 2029
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.
Market5 Feb 2029
The name of Ivan Khovalko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Market29 Jan 2029
Ostrovets 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.
Market29 Jan 2029
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Isloch have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad29 Jan 2029
The manager makes an example of Yuri Hryshyn
“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.
Market29 Jan 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Ivan Yerokhin 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.
Market29 Jan 2029
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Alexandr Berulava may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Crisis
Boardroom22 Jan 2029
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Isloch
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Gleb Aldanov 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.
Market22 Jan 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Squad15 Jan 2029
“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.
Squad15 Jan 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vladislav Drozd commits to Isloch for another 4 years.
Squad15 Jan 2029
“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.
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Crisis
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad8 Jan 2029
37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad8 Jan 2029
“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.
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
$388.1K taken back off the Isloch table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Squad8 Jan 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market8 Jan 2029
“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.
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Crisis
Market1 Jan 2029
“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.
Squad1 Jan 2029
“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.
Market1 Jan 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Adeola Olaleye 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.
Boardroom1 Jan 2029
The Isloch production line keeps running
13 graduates out of an academy now rated 11 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.
Market1 Jan 2029
Isloch have made Valentino Ulmer available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Crisis
Boardroom25 Dec 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Isloch
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad25 Dec 2028
22 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad25 Dec 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Adeola Olaleye commits to Isloch for another 3 years.
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Crisis
Squad18 Dec 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad18 Dec 2028
“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.
Market18 Dec 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Squad11 Dec 2028
The manager makes an example of Ivan Yerokhin
“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.
Market11 Dec 2028
The name of Ivan Khovalko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Isloch say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Artem Davidovich 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.
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Crisis
Boardroom4 Dec 2028
It is arithmetic now, and the arithmetic is done. A summer of hard questions starts early at Isloch, and next season's fixture list reads very differently.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Gleb Aldanov: 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.” Isloch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market4 Dec 2028
Bogdan Basalyga is 20, and Isloch have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad4 Dec 2028
“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.
Market4 Dec 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad4 Dec 2028
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Maxim Kovalevich keeps the shirt for now, at Isloch's convenience rather than his own.
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Crisis
Boardroom27 Nov 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Isloch
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad27 Nov 2028
“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.
Market27 Nov 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Squad20 Nov 2028
“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.
Squad20 Nov 2028
“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.
Market20 Nov 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Match13 Nov 2028
Isloch are in real trouble now
Position 14, 24 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad13 Nov 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad13 Nov 2028
“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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Crisis
Squad6 Nov 2028
“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.
Market6 Nov 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Adeola Olaleye 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.
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Crisis
Boardroom30 Oct 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Isloch
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad30 Oct 2028
Vladislav Drozd: 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.” Isloch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad30 Oct 2028
“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.
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Crisis
Squad23 Oct 2028
“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.
Squad23 Oct 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Isloch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market23 Oct 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Isloch know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.