From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom29 Nov 2027
The season a town measures the next twenty against. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.
Match24 Nov 2027
The unbeaten run reaches 20. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
A brace, and Alexey Antilevskiy takes the afternoon — 8.20
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Alexey Antilevskiy provided it, and the 8.20 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Slavia Mozyr may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad29 Nov 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Slavia Mozyr will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.88, and nobody on the pitch better.
Match24 Nov 2027
Slavia Mozyr make home a hard place to visit
10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match24 Nov 2027
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Slavia Mozyr and Molodechno in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
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Uneasy
Market22 Nov 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Sadchenko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slavia Mozyr the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
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Squad22 Nov 2027
Egor Troyakov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Nov 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nikita Romanov commits to Slavia Mozyr for another 4 years.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Egor Troyakov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Slavia Mozyr 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.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmitriy Slesarchuk, and the manager let it.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Ilja Kalachev 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.
Squad22 Nov 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.
Market22 Nov 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Dmitriy Slesarchuk signs something — a contract at Slavia Mozyr or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Market15 Nov 2027
Ricky Ngatchou has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slavia Mozyr they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad15 Nov 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 Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Valeriy Senko
“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 dugout15 Nov 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 Anton Lukashov is on it.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Pavel Chikida 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.
Loan watch15 Nov 2027
23 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Squad15 Nov 2027
He goes off to be somebody else’s player for a fortnight. Slavia Mozyr lose him for the window and would like him returned in the condition he left.
Squad15 Nov 2027
“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 Slavia Mozyr will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
The manager makes Dmitry Ivanov a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Slavia Mozyr. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Nov 2027
Egor Troyakov 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 dugout8 Nov 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 Evgeniy Shevchenko is on it.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
Valeriy Senko 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 dugout8 Nov 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.
Market8 Nov 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Alexandr Derzhinskiy’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Dejvi Duro still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Slavia Mozyr would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Squad8 Nov 2027
A programme of his own, away from the group, aimed at one thing the staff think is holding him back. Most improvement happens like this and none of it makes the paper.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
17 graduates from an academy now rated 9 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
Full confidence, expressed in the dull, deliberate language boards reserve for when they mean it. The window that follows will show whether the words came with money attached.
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Uneasy
Market1 Nov 2027
Dmitry Ivanov 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 Slavia Mozyr can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Egor Troyakov 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 dugout1 Nov 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 Terentiy Lutsevich is on it.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Dmitry Ivanov
“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.
Match1 Nov 2027
Position 4, 51 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
Squad1 Nov 2027
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Slavia Mozyr would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“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 Slavia Mozyr will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
Ilja Ivarlak 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 dugout1 Nov 2027
The manager plants his flag on Anton Lukashov
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Anton Lukashov’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
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Uneasy
Market25 Oct 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Sadchenko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slavia Mozyr the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
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Squad25 Oct 2027
Ilja Kalachev 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 Oct 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 dugout25 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Ricky Ngatchou
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market25 Oct 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Slavia Mozyr, another week without a signature from Artem Sadchenko.
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Uneasy
Market18 Oct 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 Slavia Mozyr, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market18 Oct 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slavia Mozyr is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad18 Oct 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 Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout18 Oct 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 dugout18 Oct 2027
Anton Lukashov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Slavia Mozyr 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.
Loan watch18 Oct 2027
23 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Uneasy
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Slavia Mozyr may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad11 Oct 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 Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ilja Kalachev, and the manager let it.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexandr Mischenko and Slavia Mozyr agree another 3 years.
The dugout11 Oct 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 Evgeniy Shevchenko is on it.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Anton Lukashov 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 Slavia Mozyr, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Oct 2027
Egor Troyakov 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Olexandr Batischev and Slavia Mozyr agree another 2 years.
Market4 Oct 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Olexandr Batischev has his answer from Slavia Mozyr; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Ilja Ivarlak makes the team of the month
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 dugout4 Oct 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 Terentiy Lutsevich is on it.
The dugout4 Oct 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
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.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
Ilja Kalachev knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ilja Kalachev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market4 Oct 2027
Slavia Mozyr have let the market know Kirill Chernook can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Uneasy
Match25 Sep 2027
The unbeaten run reaches 19. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad27 Sep 2027
2 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.
Match22 Sep 2027
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Egor Troyakov will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Slavia Mozyr escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Market27 Sep 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.
Match25 Sep 2027
5 matches without a win for Slavia Mozyr
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Slavia Mozyr are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Slavia Mozyr — 7.77
1 for Egor Troyakov, marked 7.77, 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.
The dugout27 Sep 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.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
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Steady
Market20 Sep 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slavia Mozyr can pretend not to have heard.
Market20 Sep 2027
Only the photograph left for Ricky Ngatchou
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ricky Ngatchou will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slavia Mozyr the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ilja Kalachev and Slavia Mozyr agree another 4 years.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Ilja Kalachev 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ilja Ivarlak is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets20 Sep 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.
Transfer targets20 Sep 2027
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Slavia Mozyr will try again when the window opens; Minsk may not be selling by then.
The dugout20 Sep 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 dugout20 Sep 2027
Valeriy Senko knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Valeriy Senko trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Match11 Sep 2027
The unbeaten run reaches 17. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Nikita Zelimov out for 20 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Slavia Mozyr will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Slavia Mozyr have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom13 Sep 2027
Slavia Mozyr close the window on a squad of their own making
9 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.
Transfer targets13 Sep 2027
The deal with Minsk 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.
Squad13 Sep 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 Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets13 Sep 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nizhniy Novgorod have kept their man, and Slavia Mozyr go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market13 Sep 2027
The name of Ricky Ngatchou has come up in conversations Slavia Mozyr were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Steady
Match4 Sep 2027
Whatever happens, Slavia Mozyr do not lose
16 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad6 Sep 2027
27 days out for Nikita Zelimov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Slavia Mozyr will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market6 Sep 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Ilja Kalachev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Wisla Krakow have kept their man, and Slavia Mozyr go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match4 Sep 2027
The goal that put Dinamo Minsk ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Slavia Mozyr equalised, 3 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Derzhinskiy, and the manager let it.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
The Slavia Mozyr board find $630.2K for the manager
Money, not words, and it is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending $630.2K well is entirely his problem now.
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Upbeat
Match28 Aug 2027
The unbeaten run reaches 15. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market30 Aug 2027
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Niva had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 34 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market30 Aug 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Slavia Mozyr people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
The deal with Lokomotiv Moscow 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Ilja Kalachev 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 targets30 Aug 2027
Slavia Mozyr asked and Dinamo 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 dugout30 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anton Lukashov, and the manager let it.
Match28 Aug 2027
Slavia Mozyr make home a hard place to visit
8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
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Triumph
Match21 Aug 2027
The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Nikita Zelimov out for 41 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Slavia Mozyr will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match23 Aug 2027
Slavia Mozyr are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 47 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Andrey Shemruk, 33, rolls back the years — 7.89
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.89 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
The deal with Gomel 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Slavia Mozyr have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Ilja Kalachev 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 targets23 Aug 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.
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Triumph
Squad16 Aug 2027
15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Slavia Mozyr lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match14 Aug 2027
Whatever happens, Slavia Mozyr do not lose
13 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with Minsk; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Terentiy Lutsevich and Slavia Mozyr agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Egor Troyakov 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 ratings16 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Slavia Mozyr asked and Krasnodar 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 terraces16 Aug 2027
He is 22 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.
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Upbeat
Squad9 Aug 2027
22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Slavia Mozyr lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Nikita Zelimov out for 56 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Slavia Mozyr will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market9 Aug 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Lida waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Slavia Mozyr is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match7 Aug 2027
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with Gomel; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A move Dmitry Ivanov 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. Dmitry Ivanov is living that version at Slavia Mozyr, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Ilja Kalachev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Slavia Mozyr asked and Dinamo 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.
Match7 Aug 2027
5 matches without defeat, and then Slutsk. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
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Triumph
Squad2 Aug 2027
29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Slavia Mozyr lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market2 Aug 2027
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Ostrovets had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.23 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match31 Jul 2027
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Slavia Mozyr have 5 straight wins of it.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market2 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Ilja Kalachev 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dmitriy Slesarchuk commits to Slavia Mozyr for another 4 years.
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Squad26 Jul 2027
Vitaliy Urbanovich damages knee ligaments — 36 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 36 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match24 Jul 2027
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Match26 Jul 2027
Slavia Mozyr are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 37 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Everything agreed with Lokomotiv Moscow, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: CSKA Moscow keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Match24 Jul 2027
Nobody wants to play Slavia Mozyr 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.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Artem Krent 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Ilja Kalachev 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.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Jul 2027
43 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Slavia Mozyr lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market19 Jul 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Lokomotiv Gomel waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Slavia Mozyr is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match17 Jul 2027
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Slavia Mozyr have done the hard part with Lokomotiv Moscow, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad19 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 Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets19 Jul 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.
Match17 Jul 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Terentiy Lutsevich. 1‑0 against Vitebsk, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout19 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.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Jul 2027
50 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Slavia Mozyr lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
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.
Market12 Jul 2027
Ivan Chintsov 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 Slavia Mozyr can pretend not to have heard.
Match10 Jul 2027
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Ilja Kalachev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market12 Jul 2027
Vitebsk pay $26.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets12 Jul 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.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anton Lukashov, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad5 Jul 2027
Vitaliy Urbanovich damages knee ligaments — 58 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 58 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 37. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match3 Jul 2027
Andrey Shemruk had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Belshina were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
The dugout5 Jul 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
Pavel Chikida 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 Slavia Mozyr can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
Andrey Shemruk, 33, rolls back the years — 8.08
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.08 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Ilja Kalachev 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.
Match3 Jul 2027
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andrey Shemruk and Slavia Mozyr agree another 2 years.
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Steady
Squad28 Jun 2027
Vitaliy Urbanovich damages knee ligaments — 66 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 66 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market28 Jun 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Kirill Chernook had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market28 Jun 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Uni-X Labs waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Slavia Mozyr is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad28 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 Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. CSKA Moscow have kept their man, and Slavia Mozyr go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match26 Jun 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Kirill Chernook’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Slavia Mozyr.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Ninety minutes of Kirill Chernook at his very best
Marked 8.17. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Slavia Mozyr.
Squad28 Jun 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ilja Ivarlak and Slavia Mozyr agree another 3 years.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Andrei Filipenko on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Steady
Squad21 Jun 2027
74 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Slavia Mozyr lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market21 Jun 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Lokomotiv Gomel waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Slavia Mozyr is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Slavia Mozyr have done the hard part with Gomel, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market21 Jun 2027
The name of Kirill Chernook has come up in conversations Slavia Mozyr were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Egor Troyakov 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 targets21 Jun 2027
Slavia Mozyr asked and Dinamo 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match21 Jun 2027
Position 6, 24 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad14 Jun 2027
81 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Slavia Mozyr lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
A brace, and Alexey Antilevskiy takes the afternoon — 8.22
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Alexey Antilevskiy provided it, and the 8.22 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Slavia Mozyr may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market14 Jun 2027
Only the photograph left for Ricky Ngatchou
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ricky Ngatchou will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slavia Mozyr the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Egor Troyakov 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 dugout14 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Valeriy Senko
“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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Terentiy Lutsevich and Slavia Mozyr agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Squad
Dejvi Duro wants to go home
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Looking ahead
The leaders are next for Slavia Mozyr
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Steady
Squad7 Jun 2027
Vitaliy Urbanovich damages knee ligaments — 90 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 90 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Artem Soroko is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Artem Soroko: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match2 Jun 2027
Minsk are out and Slavia Mozyr go through, 1‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market7 Jun 2027
Ivan Chintsov 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 Slavia Mozyr can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Egor Troyakov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Artem Salygo has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Slavia Mozyr have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
The terraces7 Jun 2027
He is 22 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.
Squad7 Jun 2027
No place for Egor Troyakov in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Slavia Mozyr are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Steady
Squad31 May 2027
Vitaliy Urbanovich damages knee ligaments — 98 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 98 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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.
Squad31 May 2027
Ilja Kalachev 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 dugout31 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.” Andrei Filipenko chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout31 May 2027
Artem Soroko 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.
Match29 May 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. BATE defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
The dugout31 May 2027
Ilya Verenich 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 Ilya Verenich is on it.
The dugout31 May 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 Slavia Mozyr, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad24 May 2027
105 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Slavia Mozyr lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad24 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 Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout24 May 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.
Match22 May 2027
0‑1 to Dinamo Minsk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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 0‑1 Andrei Filipenko left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout24 May 2027
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 13. 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.
Squad24 May 2027
Ilya Verenich is the weekend's best young player
At 19 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.
The dugout24 May 2027
Anton Lukashov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Slavia Mozyr 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings17 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match15 May 2027
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 92th minute. Smorgon will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Market17 May 2027
Ricky Ngatchou has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slavia Mozyr they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad17 May 2027
Yaroslav Mikhailov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces17 May 2027
At 19 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.
Match15 May 2027
A 1‑0 win over Smorgon, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout17 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.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Marked 7.76. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout17 May 2027
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Andrei Filipenko, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Steady
Market10 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.
Squad10 May 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexey Antilevskiy and Slavia Mozyr agree another 4 years.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 May 2027
Yaroslav Mikhailov 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 ratings10 May 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.06, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad10 May 2027
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Market10 May 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Slavia Mozyr, another week without a signature from Valeriy Senko.
The dugout10 May 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Andrei Filipenko on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Crisis
Market3 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 Slavia Mozyr, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 May 2027
Yaroslav Mikhailov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match1 May 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad3 May 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vladislav Dronov commits to Slavia Mozyr for another 3 years.
The dugout3 May 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Andrei Filipenko after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. 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
“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 dugout3 May 2027
“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.
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 Slavia Mozyr, another week without a signature from Vitaliy Urbanovich.
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Steady
Squad26 Apr 2027
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
The dugout26 Apr 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.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Marked 9.59. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Slavia Mozyr.
Match24 Apr 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Evgeniy Shevchenko. 3‑1 against Slutsk, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Olexandr Batischev 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 dugout26 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Evgeniy Abramovich, and the manager let it.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Valeriy Senko was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.24. 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.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. 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.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Andrei Filipenko on a 3‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Steady
The terraces19 Apr 2027
Anger at Slavia Mozyr spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market19 Apr 2027
Only the photograph left for Ricky Ngatchou
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ricky Ngatchou will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slavia Mozyr the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match17 Apr 2027
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Slavia Mozyr can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad19 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 Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout19 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Terentiy Lutsevich and Slavia Mozyr agree another 1 years.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Andrei Filipenko after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Andrey Shemruk
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
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Steady
Squad12 Apr 2027
Ilja Kalachev 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 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Evgeniy Shevchenko, and the manager let it.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.40 on the card, and the Slavia Mozyr support went home talking about one name.
Market12 Apr 2027
Dejvi Duro is 20, and Slavia Mozyr have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dejvi Duro and Slavia Mozyr agree another 3 years.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Andrei Filipenko was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Slavia Mozyr dressing room was either.
Market12 Apr 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Pavel Chikida has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Slavia Mozyr.
Match10 Apr 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Neman will be the happier side with the point.
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Steady
Match31 Mar 2027
A 2‑0 win over Uni-X Labs, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Ilya Verenich, 19, steals the show — 7.66
Marked 7.66 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market5 Apr 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 Slavia Mozyr, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Slavia Mozyr may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Yaroslav Mikhailov 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sergey Mokrousov is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Ebuka Nneji has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Slavia Mozyr have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
The terraces5 Apr 2027
He is 19 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.
Match3 Apr 2027
0‑1 to Vitebsk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
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Player ratings
Ivan Chintsov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
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Player ratings
One of those days for Kirill Chernook
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad29 Mar 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Slavia Mozyr will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Yaroslav Mikhailov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match27 Mar 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Slavia Mozyr did not have in the autumn.
The terraces29 Mar 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Yaroslav Mikhailov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. 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
The manager makes an example of Ilja Kalachev
“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.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.38 on the card, and the Slavia Mozyr support went home talking about one name.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“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 dugout29 Mar 2027
Something was said to Artem Soroko and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
The terraces22 Mar 2027
The mood at Slavia Mozyr has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market22 Mar 2027
Only the photograph left for Ricky Ngatchou
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ricky Ngatchou will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slavia Mozyr the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad22 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 Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match20 Mar 2027
Belshina made Slavia Mozyr work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Marked 8.23 — 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.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.01, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad22 Mar 2027
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
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Upbeat
Squad15 Mar 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Slavia Mozyr will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match13 Mar 2027
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 85th, and Gomel spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Yaroslav Mikhailov 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 targets15 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.
The terraces15 Mar 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Nikita Saltykov 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.
Match13 Mar 2027
Slavia Mozyr keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Match13 Mar 2027
Gomel made Slavia Mozyr work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Marked 8.16 — 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.
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Steady
Squad8 Mar 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Slavia Mozyr will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Slavia Mozyr
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Olexandr Batischev commits to Slavia Mozyr for another 2 years.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Krasnodar have kept their man, and Slavia Mozyr go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad8 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 Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market8 Mar 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yauhen 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Viktar Signevich is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hleb 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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Steady
Squad1 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Window shuts: 1 in, 0 out at Slavia Mozyr
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 1 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market1 Mar 2027
The deal that would have taken Artem Soroko to Baranovichi has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Slavia Mozyr with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Transfer targets1 Mar 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Akhmat Grozny have kept their man, and Slavia Mozyr go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Ilja Kalachev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Valeriy Senko, and the manager let it.
Market1 Mar 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.
Looking ahead1 Mar 2027
Minsk next, and one man in the Slavia Mozyr dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“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 Slavia Mozyr will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
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Uneasy
The terraces22 Feb 2027
Supporters organise against the Slavia Mozyr board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Slavia Mozyr will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market22 Feb 2027
Ricky Ngatchou has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slavia Mozyr they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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.
Squad22 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 Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anton Lukashov, and the manager let it.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Valeriy Senko 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 Slavia Mozyr, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Ilya Verenich 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 Ilya Verenich is on it.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Artem Soroko 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 Artem Soroko has written the date down.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Feb 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Slavia Mozyr will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market15 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Artem Soroko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Soroko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slavia Mozyr the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Yaroslav Mikhailov 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 targets15 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lokomotiv Moscow have kept their man, and Slavia Mozyr go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Derzhinskiy, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Slavia Mozyr have made the call to Dinamo Moscow. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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 Anton Lukashov is on it.
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 Slavia Mozyr, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad15 Feb 2027
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Slavia Mozyr the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Slavia Mozyr will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market8 Feb 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Lida waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Slavia Mozyr is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market8 Feb 2027
The offer from Slonim for Viktar Rios 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Yaroslav Mikhailov 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 targets8 Feb 2027
Slavia Mozyr asked and Osipovichi 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 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
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ilja Ivarlak and Slavia Mozyr agree another 3 years.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
A loan move for Ugochukwu Iwu is in the works
Slavia Mozyr have made the call to Rubin. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout8 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 Terentiy Lutsevich is on it.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Feb 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market1 Feb 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Slavia Mozyr people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Slavia Mozyr
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Slavia Mozyr is running low.
Market1 Feb 2027
Volna Pinsk come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Slavia Mozyr did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
The deal with Torpedo-BelAZ 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
Yaroslav Mikhailov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lokomotiv Moscow have kept their man, and Slavia Mozyr go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market1 Feb 2027
The name of Viktar Rios has come up in conversations Slavia Mozyr were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Neman 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.
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Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
Valeriy Senko damages knee ligaments — 18 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 18 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The terraces25 Jan 2027
Anger at Slavia Mozyr spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Slavia Mozyr will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market25 Jan 2027
Artem Soroko 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 Slavia Mozyr can pretend not to have heard.
Market25 Jan 2027
Only the photograph left for Ricky Ngatchou
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ricky Ngatchou will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slavia Mozyr the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad25 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 Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
27 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Slavia Mozyr lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Slavia Mozyr will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Olexandr Batischev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
Valeriy Senko damages knee ligaments — 36 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 36 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Slavia Mozyr will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Ilja Kalachev 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 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
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 Terentiy Lutsevich is on it.
Market11 Jan 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Sergey Mokrousov has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Slavia Mozyr.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Slavia Mozyr will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Ilja Kalachev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout4 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.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 110 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The terraces28 Dec 2026
Supporters organise against the Slavia Mozyr board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Market28 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slavia Mozyr is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Dec 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 Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sergey Mokrousov is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Kirill Chernook
“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
Squad21 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 117 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Yaroslav Mikhailov 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 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.
The dugout21 Dec 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 Slavia Mozyr, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Anton Lukashov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Slavia Mozyr 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“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 Slavia Mozyr will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
28 days out for Ilya Verenich after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Slavia Mozyr will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Yaroslav Mikhailov 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 dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Denis Fedorenko
“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 dugout14 Dec 2026
Nobody at Slavia Mozyr 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Ilja Kalachev 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 Slavia Mozyr, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
4 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Ilya Verenich out for 35 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Slavia Mozyr will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Yaroslav Mikhailov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Valeriy Senko and Slavia Mozyr agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Steady
The terraces30 Nov 2026
The mood at Slavia Mozyr has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Ilya Verenich breaks a bone — 42 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 42 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market30 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slavia Mozyr is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad30 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 Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout30 Nov 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Ilya Verenich has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Slavia Mozyr 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.
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Steady
Market23 Nov 2026
Valeriy Senko has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slavia Mozyr they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Ilja Kalachev 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.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“I watch every Slavia Mozyr game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Slonim runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sergey Mokrousov, and the manager let it.
The dugout23 Nov 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 Anton Lukashov is on it.
The dugout23 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.
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Steady
Market16 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Pavel Chikida
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Pavel Chikida will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slavia Mozyr the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ilja Kalachev 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Valeriy Senko, and the manager let it.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I watch every Slavia Mozyr game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Osipovichi runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Nobody at Slavia Mozyr 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.
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 Slavia Mozyr, 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 Slavia Mozyr money.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
4 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
Yaroslav Mikhailov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Yaroslav Mikhailov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market9 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.
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Steady
The terraces2 Nov 2026
The mood at Slavia Mozyr has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Slavia Mozyr have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market2 Nov 2026
Ricky Ngatchou has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slavia Mozyr they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad2 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 Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market2 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
Artem Soroko 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
Ilja Kalachev knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ilja Kalachev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Ilya Verenich 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 Ilya Verenich is on it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
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Steady
Market26 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Valeriy Senko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Valeriy Senko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slavia Mozyr the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Yaroslav Mikhailov 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Something was said to Nikita Saltykov and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Slavia Mozyr
15 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.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Slonim to sit and watch. I want to come back to Slavia Mozyr and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Anton Lukashov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Slavia Mozyr 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.
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Steady
Market19 Oct 2026
Pavel Chikida has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slavia Mozyr they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Yaroslav Mikhailov 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Sergey Mokrousov is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexey Antilevskiy and Slavia Mozyr agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Slavia Mozyr, and 1 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anton Lukashov, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Olexandr Batischev 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Artem Soroko is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Slavia Mozyr has been clear about where Artem Soroko stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Anton Lukashov 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 Slavia Mozyr, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad12 Oct 2026
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Slavia Mozyr the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Valeriy Senko plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Steady
Market5 Oct 2026
Ricky Ngatchou has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slavia Mozyr they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad5 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 Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Andrey Shemruk 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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 dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivan Chintsov, and the manager let it.
The dugout5 Oct 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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Steady
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market28 Sep 2026
Valeriy Senko has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slavia Mozyr they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Slavia Mozyr may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets28 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Olexandr Batischev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Valeriy Senko
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Slavia Mozyr
15 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.66 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Slavia Mozyr had the best player on the pitch.
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Steady
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 Slavia Mozyr people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market21 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Pavel Chikida
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Pavel Chikida will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slavia Mozyr the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Yaroslav Mikhailov 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 Sep 2026
Slavia Mozyr asked and NK Celje said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Slavia Mozyr, and 1 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Artem Soroko 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
Nobody at Slavia Mozyr 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.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
Slutsk next, and one man in the Slavia Mozyr dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Valeriy Senko 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 Slavia Mozyr, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
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 7.52 for the rest of it.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 16 signed and 11 gone
That is the business done at Slavia Mozyr 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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Pavel Chikida has agreed terms with BATE for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Yaroslav Mikhailov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vitaliy Urbanovich, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Neman come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Slavia Mozyr did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Everything agreed with Spartak Moscow, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Slavia Mozyr
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Slavia Mozyr are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Valeriy Senko 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a goal for Slavia Mozyr
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Slavia Mozyr asked and CSKA Moscow said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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Crisis
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Aug 2026
The small margins put Slavia Mozyr out
Out, 0‑1 to Dinamo Minsk, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market31 Aug 2026
Valeriy Senko has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slavia Mozyr they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Torpedo-BelAZ keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Market31 Aug 2026
Dinamo Minsk paid $67.0K and Slavia Mozyr took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Match29 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Slavia Mozyr
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Slavia Mozyr asked and Viktoria Plzen 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
Andrey Shemruk 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
Match19 Aug 2026
Neman are out and Slavia Mozyr go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market24 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Slavia Mozyr people have started saying his name 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
BATE pay $140.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market24 Aug 2026
Dinamo Minsk pay $82.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad24 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 Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 18 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Rostov 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.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
$330.0K is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
Match12 Aug 2026
Osipovichi are out and Slavia Mozyr go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings17 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Slonim waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Slavia Mozyr is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Lokomotiv Gomel had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $330.0K sale of Nikita Melnikov
He is going to Dinamo Minsk, the club has $330.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Torpedo-BelAZ for Andrey Solovey 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.
Boardroom17 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.50, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
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Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer from Belshina for Pavel Chikida 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slavia Mozyr they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: NK Domzale keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Alexandr Dzhigero has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Brest have kept their man, and Slavia Mozyr go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Olexandr Batischev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andrei Yablonski 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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Crisis
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexandr Dzhigero will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slavia Mozyr the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom3 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Evgeniy Shevchenko and Slavia Mozyr agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Slavia Mozyr asked and Olympiacos said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Olexandr Batischev 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Evgeniy Abramovich, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.