22 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process
3 Edition

The Uni-X Labs Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Daniil Narchuk out for 29 days

29 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Uni-X Labs lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

The small margins put Uni-X Labs out

Out, 3‑4 to Torpedo-BelAZ, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings

A brace, and Daniil Chergeyko takes the afternoon — 8.40

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Daniil Chergeyko provided it, and the 8.40 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

7 saves: Roman Babaev was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Sergey Bulynenok yet — 8.20

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.20 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Makar Suschiy

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Uni-X Labs have done the hard part with Slutsk, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Egor Semenov in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Uni-X Labs this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Uni-X Labs and Torpedo-BelAZ in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

The terraces

Uni-X Labs supporters have found a favourite in Daniil Chergeyko

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Daniil Chergeyko has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Uni-X Labs Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Vladimir Popov leads the rout of Niva

3‑0, and Vladimir Popov took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Uni-X Labs tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Nikolay Mirskiy at 20 — 7.71

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Nikolay Mirskiy did not need any: 7.71, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Vintage Egor Semenov — 8.30

At 38 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.30, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Matvey Svidinskiy in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Uni-X Labs this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Uni-X Labs agree a free transfer for Nazar Kurak

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

The terraces

Uni-X Labs supporters have found a favourite in Nikolay Mirskiy

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Nikolay Mirskiy 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.

Market

One of our own: Yahor Bykau joins the Uni-X Labs first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Yahor Bykau is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Raman Chalavach joins the Uni-X Labs first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Raman Chalavach is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Uni-X Labs promote Anton Malevich from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Anton Malevich 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.

In brief

1 Edition

The Uni-X Labs Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Dmitriy Khalimonchikov signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dmitriy Khalimonchikov and Uni-X Labs agree another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Uni-X Labs

Matvey Svidinskiy 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.

Market

49 months and counting on Dmitriy Khalimonchikov

Still no offer on the table, and Dmitriy Khalimonchikov’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Squad

Uni-X Labs are still strangers to each other

15 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Transfer targets

Uni-X Labs ask about Alexandr Alexandrovich

A loan enquiry to Dinamo Minsk: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market

Still no ink between Uni-X Labs and Vladimir Popov

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Uni-X Labs, another week without a signature from Vladimir Popov.

Squad

A row about effort at Uni-X Labs

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sergey Bulynenok was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Dmitriy Khalimonchikov 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 Uni-X Labs, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Alexandr Krotov leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Alexandr Krotov leaves Uni-X Labs the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief