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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 101 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market9 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slutsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Slutsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Artur Chuduk falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ilya Branovets and Slutsk agree another 2 years.
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
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Vadim Kurlovich out for 109 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Slutsk will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market2 Nov 2026
Artem Tolkin has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slutsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom2 Nov 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.
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 Slutsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Slutsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artur Chuduk is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ilya Branovets and Slutsk agree another 2 years.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Vadim Kurlovich out for 116 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Slutsk will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market26 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vadim Kurlovich will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slutsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad26 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.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
Naftan will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Nikita Piven has pre-agreed a move to Slutsk, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Slonim to sit and watch. I want to come back to Slutsk and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad26 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
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Vadim Kurlovich out for 123 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Slutsk will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market19 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Artur Chuduk
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artur Chuduk will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slutsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Pavel Tseslyukevich has agreed terms with Gomel for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Nikita Robak is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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
Vladislav Sychev 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Nikita Robak has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Slutsk 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
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slutsk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Vladislav Sychev has agreed terms with Gomel for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Slutsk
Diamantis Chouchoumis 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.
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
Vladislav Sychev 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Andrey Rum has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Slutsk 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
Market5 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Artem Tolkin
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Tolkin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slutsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Vladislav Kulchitskiy has agreed terms with Gomel for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Slutsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Vladislav Fedosov
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Vladislav Fedosov has come out of that comparison in the side, and Slutsk have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ilya Tishurov, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Match26 Sep 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for Slutsk
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Slavia Mozyr kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Slutsk will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Market28 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slutsk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Ilya Branovets 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.
Squad28 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 Slutsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.37 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match26 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Artur Chuduk
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artur Chuduk will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slutsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Andrey Rum has agreed terms with Gomel for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Slutsk
Vladislav Fedosov 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Smorgon left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Bogdan Kutsyi was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.71. 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.02, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Vadim Kurlovich: 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.” Slutsk have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market14 Sep 2026
Andrey Kren has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slutsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market14 Sep 2026
The BATE deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Vladislav Chebotar reports back to Slutsk with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Andrey Kren has agreed terms with Dinamo Brest for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Slutsk
Diamantis Chouchoumis 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 2‑1 win over Molodechno, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Slutsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yaroslav Yarotskiy is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yaroslav Yarotskiy, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
The bid was some way short and Slutsk did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Artem Tolkin
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Tolkin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slutsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad7 Sep 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market7 Sep 2026
Bogdan Kutsyi 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 Slutsk can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Artem Tolkin has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vladislav Fedosov and Slutsk agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match5 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Slutsk against Gomel
2‑3 to Gomel, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Slutsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vladislav Sychev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Upbeat
Market31 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slutsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market31 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 Slutsk can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Vadim Kurlovich has agreed terms with Dinamo Brest for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Match29 Aug 2026
Three points for Slutsk, 3‑2 the final word against Minsk in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Vladislav Sychev falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 9.03 — 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.99 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.86 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
Slutsk out of the cup
Dinamo Brest ended it 2‑4. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Market24 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.
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 Slutsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Slutsk and Dinamo Brest, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Market24 Aug 2026
Makar Suschiy has left for Minsk in a $19.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.84 — 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladislav Fedosov, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Slutsk
A 2‑0 win over Dnepr Mogilev, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market17 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slutsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market17 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Vladislav Fedosov again, and this time the name on the line is Neman. Slutsk are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
25 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Slutsk
Diamantis Chouchoumis 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 terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Bogdan Kutsyi 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.74 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Crisis
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
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 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 Slutsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Vladislav Sychev falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match8 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vadim Kurlovich, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Makar Suschiy again, and this time the name on the line is Minsk. Slutsk are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Slutsk, another week without a signature from Vladislav Sychev.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Market10 Aug 2026
Vadim Tseluyko is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Slutsk has been clear about where Vadim Tseluyko stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market3 Aug 2026
Slutsk say no — this time
The offer from Molodechno for Vladislav Fedosov 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.
The terraces3 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 22 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Slutsk
Vladislav Fedosov 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ilya Tishurov and Slutsk agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Slutsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vladislav Sychev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 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.