From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market9 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lida is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Raúl Quiroga in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Vadim Ivanovskiy falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market9 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Lida, another week without a signature from Daniil Kutsepalov.
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Uneasy
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lida is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market2 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Lida
Raúl Quiroga was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
237% of the income goes out in wages at Lida
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Poznyak, and the manager let it.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Lida, another week without a signature from Alexandr Poznyak.
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Uneasy
Market26 Oct 2026
“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.
Market26 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lida is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Raúl Quiroga in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Vadim Ivanovskiy falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Manuel Olaya's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Lida, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Market19 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lida is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Lida may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Lida
Raúl Quiroga 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Ivan Yakovlev, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market19 Oct 2026
The clock does Alexey Legchilin’s negotiating for him
2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Lida could ask drops and the wages Alexey Legchilin can ask rise.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Alexandr Poznyak damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lida is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market12 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Raúl Quiroga in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrey Agapov, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Lida
12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Alexandr Poznyak damages knee ligaments — 23 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lida is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market5 Oct 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 Lida, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Dmitriy Gradoboev has agreed terms with Gomel for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Lida
Raúl Quiroga 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
330% of the income goes out in wages at Lida
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vadim Ivanovskiy is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Lida, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alexandr Poznyak
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lida lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market28 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexey Legchilin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lida the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Raúl Quiroga in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
Uni-X Labs will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Arol Ngintsop has pre-agreed a move to Lida, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Vadim Ivanovskiy falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alexandr Poznyak
38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lida lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market21 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lida they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Lida
Raúl Quiroga 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitriy Gradoboev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Manuel Olaya is still paying for one afternoon at Lida
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Market21 Sep 2026
3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Lida could get for him.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alexandr Poznyak
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lida lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lida is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market14 Sep 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 Lida, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market14 Sep 2026
Osipovichi come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Lida did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Raúl Quiroga in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A move Ilya Selitskiy would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ilya Selitskiy is living that version at Lida, and it tends to show in the first month.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alexandr Poznyak
52 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lida lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lida is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market7 Sep 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 Lida, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Raúl Quiroga is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
573% of the income goes out in wages at Lida
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.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alexandr Poznyak
59 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lida lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match26 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Lida
1‑2 against BATE, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match29 Aug 2026
8 matches without a win for Lida
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Lida are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Ivan Kontsevoy, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.36
A mark of 8.36 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market31 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Igor Tymonyuk
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Igor Tymonyuk will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lida the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Raúl Quiroga in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Maxim Azarko knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Lida supporters have found a favourite in Ivan Kontsevoy
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Ivan Kontsevoy 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.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
Lida march on in the cup
Dinamo Minsk are out and Lida go through, 1‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexandr Puzach will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lida the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Maxim Azarko is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Maxim Azarko: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Sergey Zhurnevich at 19 — 8.19
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Sergey Zhurnevich did not need any: 8.19, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Lida's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lida has to find a result from somewhere.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Lida
Raúl Quiroga 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Alexandr Puzach falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Sergey Zhurnevich 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.
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Uneasy
Squad17 Aug 2026
Maxim Azarko decides it from twelve yards
3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match15 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Lida
A 0‑1 win over Belshina, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match12 Aug 2026
Lida march on in the cup
Belshina are out and Lida go through, 1‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lida they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 8 of the 24 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Roman Zheleznyi at 21 — 8.33
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Roman Zheleznyi did not need any: 8.33, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Lida
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Lida are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Alexandr Poznyak has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
24 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Roman Gribovskiy commits to Lida for another 2 years.
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 Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad10 Aug 2026
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Lida will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market10 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
16 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
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Market
Lida bring in an old head
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Player ratings
Santiago Palacios leaves them behind him
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Match
Point won or two lost for Lida?
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Roman Gribovskiy has just signed for Lida, and for once the answer mattered.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 24 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Roman Gribovskiy and Lida agree another 2 years.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 Aug 2026
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Daniil Kutsepalov is a Lida player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Lida
Alexey Legchilin 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Artem Salygo again, and this time the name on the line is Niva. Lida are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Alexandr Puzach falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.