From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad15 Nov 2027
Dmitriy Sai 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.
Squad15 Nov 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 Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Archie Taylor is starting to look at home
The language is arriving, the jokes are landing, and there is somebody at the next peg to talk to. None of it appears in a scouting report and all of it shows up on the pitch.
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Crisis
Market8 Nov 2027
Ilya Lebedev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slonim they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market8 Nov 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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Crisis
Match1 Nov 2027
Slonim sink to position 11
22 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Amit Kornfine: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Slonim have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
Wages eat 185% of everything Slonim earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
The Slonim debt reaches $4.3M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Zack Henry
“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.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
Slonim have to sell first
The manager has a list and the board has a condition attached to it. That is not a crisis — half of football works this way — but it decides which of the two of them gets his way in August.
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Crisis
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Slonim
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad25 Oct 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.
Market25 Oct 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slonim is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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Crisis
Squad18 Oct 2027
Ilya Lebedev 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.
Squad18 Oct 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Giorgi Todua is starting to look at home
The language is arriving, the jokes are landing, and there is somebody at the next peg to talk to. None of it appears in a scouting report and all of it shows up on the pitch.
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Crisis
Market11 Oct 2027
Ilya Lebedev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slonim they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad11 Oct 2027
56 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mitch Apau and Slonim agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Crisis
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Match4 Oct 2027
Slonim sink to position 11
22 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market4 Oct 2027
Leeyon Phelan 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 Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Oct 2027
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mitch Apau commits to Slonim for another 1 years.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Wages eat 209% of everything Slonim earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
The Slonim debt reaches $4.0M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
Squad4 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Denis Miskevich
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Stepan Gomonov asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Boardroom27 Sep 2027
Pressure builds in the Slonim boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market27 Sep 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slonim is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad27 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Dmitriy Sai
“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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
The medical room confirms 46 days on the sidelines for Archie Taylor, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Denis Miskevich and Slonim agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market27 Sep 2027
1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Slonim money.
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Uneasy
Market20 Sep 2027
The name of Danila Antonov has come up in conversations Slonim were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Dmitriy Sai 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Maxim Tkatsevich has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Uneasy
Market13 Sep 2027
Ilya Lebedev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slonim they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom13 Sep 2027
Slonim counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Slonim now.
Squad13 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Stepan Gomonov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Uneasy
Match6 Sep 2027
Slonim sink to position 11
22 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market6 Sep 2027
Leeyon Phelan 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 Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Squad6 Sep 2027
54 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Wages eat 213% of everything Slonim earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Vladimir Dziov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market6 Sep 2027
Mitch Apau runs his contract down
5 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Slonim money.
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Uneasy
Match28 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Slonim's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Slonim has to find a result from somewhere.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
Pressure builds in the Slonim boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad30 Aug 2027
30 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The medical room confirms 74 days on the sidelines for Archie Taylor, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad30 Aug 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Slonim will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Match28 Aug 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Arsenal Dzerzhinsk will be the happier side with the point.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A first senior shirt for James Ward
Every debut is a small story about the future: James Ward, 19 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
Market30 Aug 2027
1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Slonim money.
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Crisis
Match21 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Slonim's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Slonim has to find a result from somewhere.
Match21 Aug 2027
Slonim come up short against Niva
Niva left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market23 Aug 2027
The name of Danila Antonov has come up in conversations Slonim were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad23 Aug 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.
Squad23 Aug 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Zikrula Abdurakhmanov has let it be known that he does not like the way Slonim are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
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Uneasy
Market16 Aug 2027
Haruki Saruta 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 Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Market16 Aug 2027
Ilya Lebedev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slonim they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Slonim counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Slonim now.
Squad16 Aug 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.
Squad16 Aug 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 Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market16 Aug 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Alexandr Konev may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Crisis
Match9 Aug 2027
Slonim are in real trouble now
Position 11, 21 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market9 Aug 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.
Squad9 Aug 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.
Match7 Aug 2027
5 matches without a win for Slonim
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Slonim are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Aug 2027
82 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom9 Aug 2027
166% of the income goes out in wages at Slonim
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Match7 Aug 2027
0-1 to Baranovichi, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad9 Aug 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.
Market9 Aug 2027
Lokomotiv Gomel are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Slonim will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Uneasy
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Pressure builds in the Slonim boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad2 Aug 2027
58 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match31 Jul 2027
4 matches without a win for Slonim
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Slonim are no longer polite ones.
Squad2 Aug 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Slonim will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Hamidou Ba 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 Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Squad26 Jul 2027
Hamidou Ba 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.
Match24 Jul 2027
A bad afternoon for Slonim against Lida
0-1 to Lida, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Dmitriy Vechorko asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Crisis
Market19 Jul 2027
Ilya Lebedev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slonim they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match17 Jul 2027
Bumprom Gomel left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad19 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Daniil Kulikov
“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.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
Slonim counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Slonim now.
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Uneasy
Market12 Jul 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad12 Jul 2027
110 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom12 Jul 2027
Wages eat 191% of everything Slonim earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Market12 Jul 2027
The name of Danila Antonov has come up in conversations Slonim were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Egor Petrov 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.
Match10 Jul 2027
A 1-1 draw with Ostrovets leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Pressure builds in the Slonim boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market5 Jul 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match3 Jul 2027
Uni-X Labs made Slonim work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad5 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Dmitriy Sai
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market5 Jul 2027
Smorgon are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Slonim will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Alexandr Konev 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 Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market5 Jul 2027
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Slonim money.
Market5 Jul 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Slonim know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The terraces5 Jul 2027
The press cannot get enough of Daniil Kulikov
Praise is not points and never has been. It is, however, the fastest way for a valuation to move, and everybody in the game reads the same pages.
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Uneasy
Market28 Jun 2027
Slonim sell their best player to Neman
$250.0K 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.
Market28 Jun 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.
Market28 Jun 2027
Uni-X Labs are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Slonim will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Match26 Jun 2027
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad28 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Alexandr Chizh
“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 Jun 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.
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Crisis
Market21 Jun 2027
$220.0K from Vitebsk for Roman Mushulov. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Match21 Jun 2027
Slonim sink to position 11
15 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market21 Jun 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 Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Market21 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market21 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Slonim have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Boardroom21 Jun 2027
Slonim counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Slonim now.
Squad21 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Hamidou Ba
“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.
Match19 Jun 2027
Molodechno left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Dmitriy Sai 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 Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Market14 Jun 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.
Squad14 Jun 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
138 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom14 Jun 2027
259% of the income goes out in wages at Slonim
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad14 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Mitch Apau
“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.
Match12 Jun 2027
A bad afternoon for Slonim against Orsha
0-1 to Orsha, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Uneasy
Match5 Jun 2027
Lokomotiv Gomel made Slonim work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad7 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Alexandr Konev
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad7 Jun 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Slonim have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad7 Jun 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 Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Viktor Berg wants a proper job in this side
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Viktor Berg has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Slonim know, and have known for weeks.
Market7 Jun 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Slonim know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Market31 May 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 Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Match29 May 2027
7 matches without a win for Slonim
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Slonim are no longer polite ones.
Squad31 May 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.
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Uneasy
Market24 May 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 Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Match22 May 2027
6 matches without a win for Slonim
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Slonim are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom24 May 2027
Slonim counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Slonim now.
Squad24 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Egor Petrov
“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.
Squad24 May 2027
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Giannis Karagiannidis, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match22 May 2027
Slonim draw a blank against Niva
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Niva defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Uneasy
Market17 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.
Squad17 May 2027
Maxim Klunok: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Slonim have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom17 May 2027
Wages eat 276% of everything Slonim earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Boardroom17 May 2027
The Slonim debt reaches $2.5M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
Squad17 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Alexandr Chizh
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad17 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market10 May 2027
Haruki Saruta 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 Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Match8 May 2027
No end in sight to Slonim's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Slonim has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad10 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.
Match8 May 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Baranovichi defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Squad10 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 Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market10 May 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Slonim know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Market3 May 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 Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Match1 May 2027
No end in sight to Slonim's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Slonim has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad3 May 2027
Dmitriy Sai 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.
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Steady
Market26 Apr 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match24 Apr 2027
Slonim and Lida take a point apiece
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Boardroom26 Apr 2027
Slonim counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Slonim now.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Mitch Apau asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad26 Apr 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Slonim have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Crisis
Market19 Apr 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 Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Match17 Apr 2027
Bumprom Gomel left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
Wages eat 269% of everything Slonim earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Mitch Apau 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.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
Slonim are $2.2M in the red
The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Hamidou Ba 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 Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market19 Apr 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Haruki Saruta may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Artem Trushinskiy has let it be known that he does not like the way Slonim are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
Market19 Apr 2027
The Ilya Lebedev talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Slonim know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Alexandr Chizh
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Hamidou Ba 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.
Match10 Apr 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Ostrovets came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Steady
Match31 Mar 2027
The cup run ends for Slonim
0-1 against Gomel, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market5 Apr 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Daniil Kulikov: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Slonim have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
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Uneasy
Market29 Mar 2027
Leeyon Phelan 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 Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Match27 Mar 2027
Three points for Slonim, 1-0 the final word against Volna Pinsk in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad29 Mar 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.
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
The numbers do not look good at Slonim
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad29 Mar 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
At 22 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching from the bench. Places at Slonim are won quietly and lost loudly.
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Crisis
Match20 Mar 2027
8 matches without a win for Slonim
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Slonim are no longer polite ones.
Market22 Mar 2027
Haruki Saruta 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 Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Match20 Mar 2027
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
Wages eat 291% of everything Slonim earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad22 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Viktor Berg
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad22 Mar 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 Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Market15 Mar 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.
Match13 Mar 2027
7 matches without a win for Slonim
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Slonim are no longer polite ones.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Denis Miskevich: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Slonim have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad15 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Mitch Apau
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match13 Mar 2027
Slonim come up short against Orsha
Orsha left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market15 Mar 2027
The name of Marat Kalinchenko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Slonim say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Match6 Mar 2027
6 matches without a win for Slonim
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Slonim are no longer polite ones.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Viktor Berg and Slonim agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market8 Mar 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market8 Mar 2027
The shirt still fits. Sergei Signevich is back at Slonim, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market8 Mar 2027
The shirt still fits. Uladzislau Filipenko is back at Slonim, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Mar 2027
Hamidou Ba 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.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
The numbers do not look good at Slonim
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Market1 Mar 2027
Slonim spent the window trying to move Roman Mushulov on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
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Uneasy
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
336% of the income goes out in wages at Slonim
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad22 Feb 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Hamidou Ba 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 Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Market15 Feb 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad15 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bogdan Krasilov commits to Slonim for another 3 years.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Somebody is after Viktor Berg’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Viktor Berg suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Slonim have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market15 Feb 2027
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Bogdan Krasilov arrives at Slonim with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
Market15 Feb 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mitch Apau and Slonim agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market8 Feb 2027
He is 19, and nobody at Slonim signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market8 Feb 2027
He is 18, and nobody at Slonim signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Alexandr Turuk
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Somebody is after Mitch Apau’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Mitch Apau suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Slonim have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market8 Feb 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Slonim know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Market1 Feb 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 Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Feb 2027
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Mitch Apau, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mitch Apau commits to Slonim for another 1 years.
Squad1 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Zack Henry is 19, and Slonim 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Archie Taylor is 19, and Slonim 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.
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Uneasy
Market25 Jan 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 Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Wages eat 387% of everything Slonim earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad25 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market18 Jan 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Maxim Klunok
“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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Dmitriy Vechorko has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
Maxim Klunok 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The Ilya Lebedev talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Slonim know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Haruki Saruta plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Uneasy
Market4 Jan 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.
Squad4 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Giannis Karagiannidis is 19, and Slonim have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Giannis Karagiannidis commits to Slonim for another 3 years.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The captaincy has been taken off Hamidou Ba. Slonim will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Hamidou Ba asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 704% of everything Slonim earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Rady Yamlikhanov has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Ilya Lebedev is out on the grass again
He came through the session, took part in everything and finished it smiling. Slonim will not rush him, and he will spend the next fortnight trying to rush them.
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Uneasy
Market21 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Hamidou Ba 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.
Squad21 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 Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Market14 Dec 2026
Hamidou Ba 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 Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Dec 2026
31 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad14 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.
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Uneasy
Market7 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market7 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slonim is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mitch Apau commits to Slonim for another 1 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
29 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad7 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
The name of Marat Kalinchenko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Slonim say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Dmitriy Sai, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
743% of the income goes out in wages at Slonim
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Maxim Klunok 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.
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Uneasy
Market23 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 140 days on the sidelines for Anderson Pico, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market23 Nov 2026
Slonim have made Roman Mushulov available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Stepan Gomonov commits to Slonim for another 3 years.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Ilya Lebedev talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Slonim know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market9 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slonim is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Mitch Apau
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Anderson Pico asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
743% of the income goes out in wages at Slonim
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Anderson Pico 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 Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 168 days on the sidelines for Anderson Pico, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Vladimir Dziov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market26 Oct 2026
Experience through the door at Slonim
Mahir Dadashov arrives at 34 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
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Uneasy
Market19 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad19 Oct 2026
45 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Maxim Klunok: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Slonim have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slonim is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ivan Semin commits to Slonim for another 2 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ivan Semin 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Marat Kalinchenko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Slonim say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Hamidou Ba and Slonim agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
1201% of the income goes out in wages at Slonim
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Market5 Oct 2026
Giorgi Todua is 20, and Slonim 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Slonim counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Slonim now.
Market5 Oct 2026
Slonim bring in an old head
Anderson Pico is 38 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Market5 Oct 2026
Slonim bring in an old head
Juan Manuel Fernández is 35 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Somebody is after Viktor Berg’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Viktor Berg suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Slonim have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Roman Mushulov has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A welcome sight on the training pitch: Marat Kalinchenko has come through recovery and is pushing for a place again.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market21 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Dmitriy Sai has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Dmitriy Sai keeps the shirt for now, at Slonim's convenience rather than his own.
Market21 Sep 2026
No fee and no drama: Jean Carlos Garcés has signed at Slonim, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
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Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slonim is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Somebody is after Dmitriy Sai’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Dmitriy Sai suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Slonim have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market14 Sep 2026
The name of Ilya Lebedev keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Slonim say nothing, which says plenty.
Market14 Sep 2026
The window shut and Alexandr Chizh is still in the building
Slonim spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
272% of the income goes out in wages at Slonim
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Slonim counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Slonim now.
Market7 Sep 2026
Slonim have made Alexandr Chizh available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Market7 Sep 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Slonim know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match29 Aug 2026
5 matches without a win for Slonim
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Slonim are no longer polite ones.
Match29 Aug 2026
Dnepr Mogilev left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
23 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
Match22 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Slonim
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Slonim are no longer polite ones.
Match22 Aug 2026
Niva take the points off Slonim
Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
Slonim bow out of the cup
Vitebsk go through and Slonim go home, 0-1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slonim can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 5 of the 25 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Egor Petrov 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Dmitriy Sai knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Maxim Klunok 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 Slonim, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 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.
Market10 Aug 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Slonim has been clear about where Artem Trushinskiy stands, which is more than many ever get.
Match8 Aug 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Baranovichi came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Zikrula Abdurakhmanov has let it be known that he does not like the way Slonim are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dmitriy Sai commits to Slonim for another 3 years.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Ivan Semin has come up in conversations Slonim were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market3 Aug 2026
Vitaliy Para is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Slonim has been clear about where Vitaliy Para stands, which is more than many ever get.