From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 May 2027
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.
The dugout10 May 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Poznyak 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
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout10 May 2027
Half-satisfied: Yan Korzun on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Player ratings10 May 2027
9 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
Match8 May 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Osipovichi came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Looking ahead10 May 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Molodechno in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Upbeat
Match1 May 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.
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.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. 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.
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.
Match1 May 2027
Orsha made Lida work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market3 May 2027
“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 ratings3 May 2027
A mark of 7.88, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad3 May 2027
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout3 May 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Yan Korzun on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Upbeat
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 42. 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Lida
Dmitriy Vashkevich 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.
Squad26 Apr 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.
Match24 Apr 2027
Three points for Lida, 1‑0 the final word against Slonim in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Ruslan Gogniev was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.09. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Boardroom26 Apr 2027
112% 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 dugout26 Apr 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Yan Korzun kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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 Dmitriy Vashkevich was the best thing in any of them.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match17 Apr 2027
There were 89 minutes on the clock and Lokomotiv Gomel had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Lida did not stop to explain themselves.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Lida
Dmitriy Vashkevich 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.
Player ratings19 Apr 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Alexey Chernodarov 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.
Match17 Apr 2027
A 2‑1 win over Lokomotiv Gomel, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces19 Apr 2027
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Dmitriy Vashkevich was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.31. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout19 Apr 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 dugout19 Apr 2027
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Yan Korzun could afford to be generous.
In brief
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Squad
The division's best last weekend was a Lida man
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Player ratings
The chances came and went for Ruslan Gogniev
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The dugout
Ivan Kontsevoy has become a man the manager trusts
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 35. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad12 Apr 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.
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.
Market12 Apr 2027
One of our own: Yan Signevich joins the Lida first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Yan Signevich is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Apr 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Artem Noyok has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout12 Apr 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Too much change too quickly at Lida
5 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.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
9 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
The dugout12 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 Artur Malievskiy is on it.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Vadim Ivanovskiy knocks on the manager's door
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Match
Point won or two lost for Lida?
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match31 Mar 2027
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Egor Zaytsev obliged against Molodechno. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Lida.
Match3 Apr 2027
Chastening afternoon for Lida
A 0‑3 beating by Arsenal Dzerzhinsk was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
No sign of nerves from Egor Zaytsev at 20 — 7.96
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Egor Zaytsev did not need any: 7.96, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad5 Apr 2027
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Apr 2027
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.
Squad5 Apr 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 terraces5 Apr 2027
He is 20 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.
The dugout5 Apr 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 53. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“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.
Match27 Mar 2027
The wait goes on for Lida
4 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Poznyak 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
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.
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
Wages eat 116% 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.
Match27 Mar 2027
Level with 88 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Lida had all but put away. Ostrovets will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.83 on the card, and the Lida support went home talking about one name.
Match27 Mar 2027
It needed Ruslan Gogniev to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Ostrovets, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 64. 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Lida
Alexandr Poznyak 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.
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 terraces22 Mar 2027
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.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
“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.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Marked 7.10 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Lida had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Yan Korzun: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
The plan did not have a place for Alexandr Poznyak
Nobody at Lida is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Match20 Mar 2027
Lida and Niva cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Niva came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Crisis
Match13 Mar 2027
Lida taken apart
1‑4 to Uni-X Labs, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Poznyak was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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.
The dugout15 Mar 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.
Boardroom15 Mar 2027
Inquest at Lida
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
The dugout15 Mar 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 1‑4 defeat, delivered by Yan Korzun to a room that had heard them before.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Lida are still strangers to each other
5 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.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Whether it was the goalkeeper or the ten in front of him is the argument that will fill every conversation in town this week. 3 saves does not settle it either way.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad8 Mar 2027
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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Lida
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Poznyak was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets8 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; Vitebsk may not be selling by then.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
No investment in the facilities at Lida
Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.
Market8 Mar 2027
The name of Ruslan Gogniev keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Lida say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Ivan Veras 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 Ivan Veras is on it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Lida close the window on a squad of their own making
6 in and 1 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.
Transfer targets1 Mar 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Lida have done the hard part with Vitebsk, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Lida
Alexandr Poznyak 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 targets1 Mar 2027
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.
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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Wages swallow 115% 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 dugout1 Mar 2027
Artem Krent 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vladislav Rakhimov and Lida agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Steady
Squad22 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Lida
Dmitriy Vashkevich 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 targets22 Feb 2027
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.
Market22 Feb 2027
Alexey Legchilin has left for BATE in a $15.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
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 Poznyak was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“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.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Yenisey have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad22 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vladislav Rakhimov commits to Lida for another 3 years.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Artem Krent: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Lida will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vadim Ivanovskiy trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Squad15 Feb 2027
48 days out for Alexey Legchilin after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Lida will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
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.
Market15 Feb 2027
“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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Lida training over how hard people work
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Squad
5 new faces, and Lida are still learning each other
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The dugout
Alexandr Poznyak knocks on the manager’s door
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Egor Zaytsev
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad8 Feb 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 55 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Everything agreed with Slonim, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
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
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Orsha have kept their man, and Lida go back to a list with one name crossed off 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 Puzach was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Emil Guseynaliev
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Lida will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Market8 Feb 2027
The name of Ruslan Gogniev keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Lida say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Ivan Veras 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 62 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market1 Feb 2027
Lida say no — this time
The offer from Dinamo Minsk for Alexey Legchilin was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Artem Tushin gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Artem Tushin has just signed for Lida, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
The deal with Volna Pinsk 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.
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.
The terraces1 Feb 2027
The town asked, and Lida paid $110.0K
Ivan Yerokhin was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $110.0K. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
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.
Squad1 Feb 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 dugout1 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Artem Krent
“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
Squad25 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Alexey Legchilin out for 69 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lida will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Lida know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 76 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 83 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
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
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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Eduard Kendysh has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The name of Ruslan Gogniev keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Lida say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Alexey Legchilin out for 90 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lida will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
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.
Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Wages eat 90% 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.
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Alexey Legchilin out for 97 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lida will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
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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Steady
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
“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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Lida
Alexandr Goryachkin 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.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
One of our own: Artem Hryshyn joins the Lida first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Artem Hryshyn is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Dec 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yauhen Savitski has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Steady
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
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Alexandr Goryachkin 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Artem Salygo knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Lida, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market30 Nov 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.
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
“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.
Market30 Nov 2026
1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Lida money.
Market30 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Lida know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Market23 Nov 2026
Igor Tymonyuk 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.
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
The manager makes an example of Igor Tymonyuk
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Steady
Market16 Nov 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.
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
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.
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
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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Steady
Market9 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.
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
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.
Market9 Nov 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Artem Arlouski has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout9 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout9 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Ivan Veras 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 Ivan Veras is on it.
Market9 Nov 2026
1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Lida money.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Lida
Alexandr Goryachkin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout2 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
“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
It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.
Market2 Nov 2026
1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Lida money.
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Steady
The dugout26 Oct 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
Igor Tymonyuk 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.
Squad26 Oct 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.
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 Igor Tymonyuk
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market26 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.
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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.
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Steady
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Lida
Igor Tymonyuk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mikalai Martynovich 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ivan 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.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Lida
18 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
When it matters, Ivan Veras plays
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.
Market12 Oct 2026
2 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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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
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dmitriy Vashkevich commits to Lida for another 4 years.
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
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
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.
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Steady
Market28 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.
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.
From our football correspondent
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.
Boardroom21 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.
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.
The dugout21 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.
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.
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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Steady
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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 22 signed and 8 gone
That is the business done at Lida until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets14 Sep 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.
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.
Squad14 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Uladzislau Volodko 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ruslan Dragun 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.
Market14 Sep 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 Alexey Legchilin.
Squad14 Sep 2026
19 new faces, and Lida are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Steady
Market7 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Alexey Legchilin 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
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Vladislav Myzgin is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Maxim Katsynel
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Maxim Katsynel has come out of that comparison in the side, and Lida have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Steady
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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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
A move Emil Guseynaliev 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. Emil Guseynaliev is living that version at Lida, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Lida asked and Baranovichi said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Emil Guseynaliev and Lida agree another 3 years.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Half-satisfied: Yan Korzun on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Upbeat
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. 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.
Market24 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.
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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Lida asked and Dinamo Vladivostok said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Lida
Igor Tymonyuk and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Dmitriy Vashkevich’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Lida.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.83 on the card, and the Lida support went home talking about one name.
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Steady
Match15 Aug 2026
The small margins put Lida out
Out, 0‑2 to Belshina, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad17 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.
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.” 6 of the 22 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
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
Lida asked and Orsha 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 dugout17 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.
Squad17 Aug 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.
Market17 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.
In brief
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Squad
Lida are still strangers to each other
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Market
Lida sign Artem Krent, one for the future
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 41. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market10 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Fee done, terms next for Artem Krent
Lida and Slavia Mozyr have settled on $9.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Boardroom10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vladislav Myzgin and Lida agree another 2 years.
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.
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.
The terraces10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ivan Kendysh 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.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
No mercy from Lida
Orsha 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 ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.80, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Roman Zheleznyi at 21 — 9.12
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Roman Zheleznyi did not need any: 9.12, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
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.
Transfer targets3 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.
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.