From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.49 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Karnitskiy 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.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Torpedo-BelAZ have kept their man, and Lida go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match24 Jul 2027
Late, late show earns Lida a point
Minute 95, against Slonim, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Match24 Jul 2027
Honours even between Lida and Slonim
3‑3, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
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.
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Uneasy
Match17 Jul 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Lokomotiv Gomel, and it could have been more.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.72 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
Anton Zalamay, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.77
A mark of 7.77 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
Artem Salygo 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 Lida can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Lida have done the hard part with Dinamo Minsk, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Alexandr Karnitskiy 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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Neman have kept their man, and Lida go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces19 Jul 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Alfred Mazurich 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.
In brief
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Boardroom
141% of the income goes out in wages at Lida
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Maxim Katsynel
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Player ratings
Roman Zheleznyi was on a different afternoon to everybody else
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market12 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.38, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match10 Jul 2027
It had gone 11 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Everything agreed with BATE, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market12 Jul 2027
Only the photograph left for Artem Yanushko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Yanushko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lida the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Neman have kept their man, and Lida go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Maxim Katsynel 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 terraces12 Jul 2027
Lida supporters have found a favourite in Denis Khodyko
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Denis Khodyko 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
Match3 Jul 2027
No end in sight to Lida's wait for a win
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lida has to find a result from somewhere.
Market5 Jul 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad5 Jul 2027
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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Karnitskiy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Lida asked and Minsk said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces5 Jul 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Franciszek Liszka 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.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maxim Azarko, and the manager let it.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
Marked 8.02 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Market5 Jul 2027
“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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Uneasy
Match26 Jun 2027
The wait goes on for Lida
10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Belshina have kept their man, and Lida go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad28 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Puzach was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vadim Ivanovskiy, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
A loan enquiry to BATE: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
A loan enquiry to Belshina: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Anton Stasevich was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Lida dressing room was either.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Maxim Katsynel is on it.
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Crisis
Match19 Jun 2027
The wait goes on for Lida
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Lida may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Lida
Alexey Chernodarov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Lida asked and Neman said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Boardroom21 Jun 2027
Wages eat 135% of everything Lida earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Match19 Jun 2027
Uni-X Labs left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maxim Katsynel 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.
Match21 Jun 2027
Halfway: Lida sit in position 10
15 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Anton Stasevich to a room that had heard them before.
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Uneasy
Market14 Jun 2027
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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad14 Jun 2027
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.
Boardroom14 Jun 2027
Lida counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Lida now.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Dmitriy Vashkevich is on it.
Market14 Jun 2027
Lida and Gleb Loyko are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Denis Khodyko has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Lida will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Market14 Jun 2027
The clock does Gleb Loyko’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 Gleb Loyko can ask rise.
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Uneasy
Match2 Jun 2027
Lida bow out of the cup
Torpedo-BelAZ go through and Lida go home, 2‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market7 Jun 2027
“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.
Match5 Jun 2027
No end in sight to Lida's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lida has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
No sign of nerves from Anton Zalamay at 19 — 7.99
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Anton Zalamay did not need any: 7.99, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad7 Jun 2027
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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Everybody at Lida saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 38 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Karnitskiy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces7 Jun 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Roman Zheleznyi 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.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gleb Loyko, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Market31 May 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match29 May 2027
The wait goes on for Lida
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad31 May 2027
Words exchanged at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad31 May 2027
Alexandr Karnitskiy 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 dugout31 May 2027
“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.
The dugout31 May 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Anton Stasevich left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout31 May 2027
Dávid Koncz gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Dávid Koncz is on it.
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Crisis
Market24 May 2027
“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.
Squad24 May 2027
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match22 May 2027
5 matches without a win for Lida
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Lida are no longer polite ones.
Squad24 May 2027
A falling-out at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout24 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Maxim Azarko
“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.
Boardroom24 May 2027
133% 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.
Squad24 May 2027
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Puzach was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout24 May 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 2‑3 Anton Stasevich left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Crisis
Player ratings17 May 2027
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.66 for the rest of it.
Match15 May 2027
No end in sight to Lida's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lida has to find a result from somewhere.
Market17 May 2027
Only the photograph left for Artem Yanushko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Yanushko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lida the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad17 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match15 May 2027
6 goals in one match, Dmitriy Vashkevich on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Lida and Belshina.
Match15 May 2027
Belshina left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad17 May 2027
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Karnitskiy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 May 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 2‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout17 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Ivan Berezun
“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
Steady
Market10 May 2027
“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.
Squad10 May 2027
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad10 May 2027
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.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Karnitskiy is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Ivan Veras
“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.
The dugout10 May 2027
Alfred Mazurich has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Lida will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout10 May 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Anton Stasevich chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad10 May 2027
One booking too many, and a game watched from the stand. Lida lose him for the most avoidable reason in the sport.
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Upbeat
Player ratings3 May 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.24, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad3 May 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexandr Karnitskiy and Lida agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 May 2027
A falling-out at Lida
Alexey Chernodarov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match1 May 2027
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Lida and Osipovichi in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout3 May 2027
“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.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Puzach 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.
Market3 May 2027
“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 Maxim Azarko.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Squad
Alexey Legchilin makes the team of the month
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The dugout
Dávid Koncz gets picked when it counts
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad26 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Karnitskiy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match24 Apr 2027
Lida come up short against Slonim
Slonim left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Maxim Azarko
“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.
Match24 Apr 2027
After 5 games, Lida finally taste it again
The first defeat in 5 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Slonim; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Boardroom26 Apr 2027
Wages swallow 126% of the Lida income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Maxim Katsynel is on it.
Squad26 Apr 2027
The division's best last weekend was a Lida man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Roman Zheleznyi was the best thing in any of them.
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Triumph
Match17 Apr 2027
No mercy from Lida
Lokomotiv Gomel will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Lida were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Two goals and a mark of 9.06 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match17 Apr 2027
Lida make it 5 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Lida have 5 straight wins of it.
Market19 Apr 2027
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 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Karnitskiy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces19 Apr 2027
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match17 Apr 2027
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Lida. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
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Upbeat
Match10 Apr 2027
Nobody wants to play Lida right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The terraces12 Apr 2027
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match10 Apr 2027
Three points for Lida, 1‑0 the final word against Bumprom Gomel in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad12 Apr 2027
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 dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Artem Salygo
“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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Lida are still strangers to each other
7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Anton Stasevich could afford to be generous.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Triumph
Match31 Mar 2027
Cup progress for Lida
A 1‑0 win over Molodechno, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.99, and nobody on the pitch better.
Match3 Apr 2027
Nobody wants to play Lida right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad5 Apr 2027
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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Karnitskiy 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.
Match3 Apr 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Alexey Chernodarov. 2‑1 against Ostrovets, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces5 Apr 2027
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market5 Apr 2027
No place for Artem Salygo in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Artem Salygo has his answer from Lida; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Squad29 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Karnitskiy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
128% 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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Gleb Loyko 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Lida can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Market29 Mar 2027
The clock does Gleb Loyko’s negotiating for him
4 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Lida could ask drops and the wages Gleb Loyko can ask rise.
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Match20 Mar 2027
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Roman Zheleznyi scored in the 85th minute, Niva had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Lida took the lot.
Market22 Mar 2027
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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match20 Mar 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Roman Zheleznyi. 2‑1 against Niva, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces22 Mar 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Roman Zheleznyi 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Marked 8.08 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Puzach was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Anton Stasevich could afford to be generous.
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The dugout15 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Lida may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Alexandr Karnitskiy 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Lida
Artem Salygo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match13 Mar 2027
Lida rescue it on 91 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 91. Uni-X Labs had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Artem Salygo, and the manager let it.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Too much change too quickly at Lida
7 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.
Match13 Mar 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Squad8 Mar 2027
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.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Graduation day at Lida
1 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ivan Veras and Lida agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Karnitskiy 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Anton Arlouski has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
Lida ran out of time with Dinamo Brest. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad8 Mar 2027
The medical room confirms 26 days on the sidelines for Zsolt Doktor, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivan Veras, and the manager let it.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Alexey Legchilin'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.
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Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Lida close the window on a squad of their own making
7 in and 3 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad1 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets1 Mar 2027
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Lida will try again when the window opens; Orsha may not be selling by then.
Squad1 Mar 2027
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.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Wages eat 106% of everything Lida earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Market1 Mar 2027
Lida and Maxim Azarko are talking past each other
“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.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Denis Khodyko
“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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The captaincy has been taken off Alexey Legchilin. Lida will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alexandr Karnitskiy trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Market22 Feb 2027
Igor Tymonyuk 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 Lida can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with Orsha; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Lida have done the hard part with BATE, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market22 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Artem Yanushko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Yanushko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lida the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Karnitskiy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Squad15 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
The offer went to Dinamo Brest this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Salygo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Lida, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad15 Feb 2027
No place for Dávid Koncz in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Lida are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“I want to play”: Gleb Loyko speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Anton Zalamay
“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.
Market15 Feb 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Sergey Zhurnevich is on it.
In brief
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The dugout
Ivan Veras has been promised minutes
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Market
The clock does Gleb Loyko’s negotiating for him
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Market8 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The deal with Belshina is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad8 Feb 2027
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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
$17.0K was the most the club would pay and Dinamo Brest were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Karnitskiy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gleb Loyko, and the manager let it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Too much change too quickly at Lida
8 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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Alexey Legchilin'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.
Market8 Feb 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Lida signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
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Market1 Feb 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Feb 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Lida have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
The paperwork begins on Vadim Galko
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Lida have done the hard part with Smorgon, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Isloch keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A move Martin Parilla 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. Martin Parilla is living that version at Lida, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad1 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Lida have gone to Dinamo Brest with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Alexandr Karnitskiy 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Franciszek Liszka and Lida agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Ivan Veras
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Boardroom
Wages eat 85% of everything Lida earn
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Market
Igor Tymonyuk is free to find somewhere else
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Market25 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Lida
Artem Salygo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Artem Salygo 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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Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Puzach is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Georgiy Belov is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Everybody at Lida saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 38 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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 dugout11 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Alexey Legchilin'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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Market4 Jan 2027
Artem Yanushko has one foot out of the door
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“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 Jan 2027
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Alexandr Puzach is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Market4 Jan 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Lida, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Squad28 Dec 2026
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Puzach is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Puzach is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Georgiy Belov 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes Ivan Veras a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Lida. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Squad14 Dec 2026
Artem Salygo 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Gleb Loyko asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Sergey Zhurnevich is on it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Ivan Veras has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Ivan Veras has written the date down.
Market14 Dec 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
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Market7 Dec 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexey Legchilin commits to Lida for another 1 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Puzach was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Lida
Artem Salygo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Igor Tymonyuk slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Igor Tymonyuk is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
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Market30 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexandr Poznyak will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lida the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Puzach is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Alexandr Puzach
“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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“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.
Market30 Nov 2026
1 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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Market23 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Ivan Veras 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alexandr Puzach trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market23 Nov 2026
The clock does Alexey Legchilin’s negotiating for him
1 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Georgiy Belov 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.
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Market16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Puzach was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexey Chernodarov, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aliaksandr Hleb commits to Lida for another 3 years.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Lida, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market16 Nov 2026
2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Lida money.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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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
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
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Karnitskiy 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yahor Sivakov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market9 Nov 2026
One of our own: Viktar Dragun joins the Lida first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Viktar Dragun is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market9 Nov 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kirill Ihnatovich is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vadim Ivanovskiy, and the manager let it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Lida, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Lida will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Market2 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexandr Poznyak will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lida the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Karnitskiy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Alexandr Poznyak has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Market2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alexandr Karnitskiy trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad2 Nov 2026
He is 37, he is from here, and the shirt he was raised to wear has gone to somebody bought for it. The academy staff have noticed, and so has the town.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market2 Nov 2026
Lida bring in an old head
Yegor Kostryukhin is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
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Steady
Market26 Oct 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Puzach is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Gleb Loyko
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Lida
17 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
The clock does Alexandr Puzach’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 Alexandr Puzach can ask rise.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Georgiy Belov 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.
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Steady
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
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Ivan Veras
“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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Alexey Legchilin'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.
The dugout19 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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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Dmitriy Vashkevich will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lida the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Vladislav Kulchitskiy has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Lida have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Lida
Alexey Chernodarov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 37, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dmitriy Vashkevich trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Lida
Something was said to Nikita Vekhtev and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Market12 Oct 2026
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Lida money.
Squad12 Oct 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Lida know which stage they are at.
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Steady
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Puzach was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexandr Karnitskiy commits to Lida for another 2 years.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alexandr Puzach trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market5 Oct 2026
At 37, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
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Steady
Market28 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexey Chernodarov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lida the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad28 Sep 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Lida are still strangers to each other
17 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alexey Legchilin trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
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.
Market21 Sep 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Lida people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Neman have kept their man, and Lida go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vadim Ivanovskiy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vadim Ivanovskiy, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
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.
The dugout21 Sep 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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Crisis
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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.30, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Lida — 7.27
1 for Alexandr Poznyak, marked 7.27, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 17 in, 8 out at Lida
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 17 arrived, 8 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Match12 Sep 2026
Volna Pinsk left with the points after a 3‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match12 Sep 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Lida and Volna Pinsk in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slavia Mozyr have kept their man, and Lida go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Sep 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.
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Steady
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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Vadim Ivanovskiy 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Puzach was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Alfred Mazurich named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Alfred Mazurich is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market31 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexey Chernodarov 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 3‑1 win over Baranovichi, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Lida
Alexey Chernodarov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad31 Aug 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexey Chernodarov, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.87 on the card, and the Lida support went home talking about one name.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
Lida bow out of the cup
Torpedo-BelAZ go through and Lida go home, 0‑4 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from Maxim Azarko
There were 8 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Lida have lost him in all but the paperwork.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
A cup embarrassment at Torpedo-BelAZ follows Lida home
0-4. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
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
A falling-out at Lida
Dmitriy Vashkevich and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Lida asked and Vitebsk said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match22 Aug 2026
Belshina left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Upbeat
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.
Match12 Aug 2026
Lida march on in the cup
Belshina are out and Lida go through, 3‑3 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.32, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Alexandr Puzach has agreed terms with Slavia Mozyr for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Neman have kept their man, and Lida go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match15 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Osipovichi, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Steady
Market10 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.
Boardroom10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ivan Veras commits to Lida for another 2 years.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Vitaliy Likhtin has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Lida have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Dzmitry Rios joins the Lida first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dzmitry Rios is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Uladzislau Yablonski has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Maksim Kendysh joins the Lida first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Maksim Kendysh is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.00, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Roman Zheleznyi, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.83
A mark of 7.83 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alfred Mazurich and Lida agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market3 Aug 2026
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Vladislav Myzgin is a Lida player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Lida
Alexey Legchilin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match1 Aug 2026
Alfred Mazurich among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Alfred Mazurich on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Lida and Slonim.
Match1 Aug 2026
Lida get the job done against Slonim
A 4‑2 win over Slonim, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Gomel have kept their man, and Lida go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alfred Mazurich was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.