From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match24 Jul 2027
No end in sight to Volna Pinsk's wait for a win
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Volna Pinsk has to find a result from somewhere.
Match24 Jul 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 13 matches without defeat is a foundation Volna Pinsk did not have in the autumn.
Market26 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.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Vitaliy Kibuk 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Volna Pinsk have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad26 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Lachezar Ivanov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 16 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
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Uneasy
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.
Market19 Jul 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Volna Pinsk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad19 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniil Tkachik, and the manager let it.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Volna Pinsk now.
Market19 Jul 2027
1 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Volna Pinsk could get for him.
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Uneasy
Match10 Jul 2027
No end in sight to Volna Pinsk's wait for a win
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Volna Pinsk has to find a result from somewhere.
Market12 Jul 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 Volna Pinsk can pretend not to have heard.
Match10 Jul 2027
Still nobody has beaten Volna Pinsk
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market12 Jul 2027
The name of Alexandr Kuchinskiy has come up in conversations Volna Pinsk were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Vitaliy Kibuk 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.
Boardroom12 Jul 2027
186% of the income goes out in wages at Volna Pinsk
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.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad12 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Vitaliy Kibuk
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match3 Jul 2027
10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market5 Jul 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 Volna Pinsk can pretend not to have heard.
Match3 Jul 2027
Still nobody has beaten Volna Pinsk
The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Maxim Grechikha and Volna Pinsk agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kirill Polkhovskiy, and the manager let it.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.46, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market5 Jul 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
Match26 Jun 2027
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market28 Jun 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Volna Pinsk, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match26 Jun 2027
Whatever happens, Volna Pinsk do not lose
10 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Vitaliy Kibuk was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
A performance of 8.46 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match26 Jun 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Azam Radzhabov knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Azam Radzhabov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Maxim Grechikha unhappy with how he is being used
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Maxim Grechikha has let it be known that he does not like the way Volna Pinsk are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match19 Jun 2027
No end in sight to Volna Pinsk's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Volna Pinsk has to find a result from somewhere.
Market21 Jun 2027
The bid was some way short and Volna Pinsk did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market21 Jun 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Volna Pinsk, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match19 Jun 2027
Whatever happens, Volna Pinsk do not lose
9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad21 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
A performance of 8.18 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match19 Jun 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Boardroom21 Jun 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Volna Pinsk now.
Squad21 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 Volna Pinsk, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match12 Jun 2027
7 matches without a win for Volna Pinsk
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Volna Pinsk are no longer polite ones.
Match12 Jun 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Volna Pinsk did not have in the autumn.
Squad14 Jun 2027
The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for Evgeniy Gremza, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Vitaliy Kibuk 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.
Boardroom14 Jun 2027
Wages eat 203% of everything Volna Pinsk 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Alexandr Kuchinskiy has his answer from Volna Pinsk; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Kuchinskiy, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 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.
Match5 Jun 2027
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Vyacheslav Purak: 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.” Volna Pinsk have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match5 Jun 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Volna Pinsk did not have in the autumn.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Volna Pinsk know it.
Squad7 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
A performance of 8.53 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fahad Al-Taleb, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match29 May 2027
No end in sight to Volna Pinsk's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Volna Pinsk has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad31 May 2027
Vitaliy Kibuk 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.
Match29 May 2027
Whatever happens, Volna Pinsk do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad31 May 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings31 May 2027
A performance of 8.52 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match29 May 2027
It needed Dmitriy Matyash to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Lida, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad31 May 2027
Egor Nikoporenok 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.
Squad31 May 2027
Vitaliy Kibuk has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Vitaliy Kibuk keeps the shirt for now, at Volna Pinsk's convenience rather than his own.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 9. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Market24 May 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Volna Pinsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match22 May 2027
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad24 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lachezar Ivanov, and the manager let it.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom24 May 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Volna Pinsk now.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 May 2027
57 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad17 May 2027
Vitaliy Kibuk 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.
Boardroom17 May 2027
Wages eat 199% of everything Volna Pinsk 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.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 May 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad17 May 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lachezar Ivanov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 14 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match15 May 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Orsha will be the happier side with the point.
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Steady
Market10 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 Volna Pinsk can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Nikita Karpuk
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 May 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.86 on the card, and the Volna Pinsk support went home talking about one name.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Shots: 11, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Squad10 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.
Match8 May 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Lokomotiv Gomel came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Steady
Match3 May 2027
13 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market3 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.
Squad3 May 2027
Vitaliy Kibuk 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 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmitriy Matyash, and the manager let it.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Defensive actions: 17, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Market3 May 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Volna Pinsk, another week without a signature from Vitaliy Urbanovich.
Squad3 May 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alexandr Kuchinskiy trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Match1 May 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Arsenal Dzerzhinsk came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Steady
Market26 Apr 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Volna Pinsk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Marked 8.88 — 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.
Match24 Apr 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Roman Terletskiy. 1‑0 against Niva, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad26 Apr 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 16 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Boardroom26 Apr 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Volna Pinsk now.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Squad19 Apr 2027
85 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad19 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
Wages eat 212% of everything Volna Pinsk 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market12 Apr 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Volna Pinsk, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Volna Pinsk know it.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Vitaliy Kibuk 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.
Match10 Apr 2027
0‑1 to Baranovichi, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Egor Nikoporenok, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Apr 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Attila Németh knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Shots: 8, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Market12 Apr 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Evgeniy Gremza’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Match31 Mar 2027
Smorgon ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Market5 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 Volna Pinsk can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces5 Apr 2027
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 28 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad5 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
A performance of 8.56 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match3 Apr 2027
Osipovichi made Volna Pinsk work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad5 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.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market29 Mar 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Volna Pinsk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match27 Mar 2027
Still nobody has beaten Volna Pinsk
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Vitaliy Kibuk was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.68 on the card, and the Volna Pinsk support went home talking about one name.
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
The numbers do not look good at Volna Pinsk
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.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Defensive actions: 14, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Mar 2027
113 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad22 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match20 Mar 2027
Whatever happens, Volna Pinsk do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
270% of the income goes out in wages at Volna Pinsk
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 Mar 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Mar 2027
Vitaliy Kibuk was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.38, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match13 Mar 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Vitaliy Kibuk’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Volna Pinsk.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vyacheslav Purak, and the manager let it.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market15 Mar 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad15 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Volna Pinsk have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Uneasy
Match6 Mar 2027
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market8 Mar 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 Volna Pinsk can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Evgeniy Gremza and Volna Pinsk agree another 2 years.
Market8 Mar 2027
As if he never left: Maksim Pavlov returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Maksim Pavlov is a Volna Pinsk player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
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. Egor Hleb is back at Volna Pinsk, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad8 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.69, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad8 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market1 Mar 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 Volna Pinsk can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Mar 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexandr Kuchinskiy will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volna Pinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Mar 2027
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Vitaliy Kendysh is a Volna Pinsk player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Vitaliy Kibuk 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.
Squad1 Mar 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.
Market1 Mar 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad22 Feb 2027
141 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad22 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
Wages eat 269% of everything Volna Pinsk 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Feb 2027
Vitaliy Kibuk 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.
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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Volna Pinsk has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Market15 Feb 2027
6 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Volna Pinsk could ask drops and the wages Alexandr Kuchinskiy can ask rise.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Vitaliy Kibuk has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Vitaliy Kibuk keeps the shirt for now, at Volna Pinsk's convenience rather than his own.
Market15 Feb 2027
Volna Pinsk shop where it costs nothing
Lachezar Ivanov signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.
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Uneasy
Market8 Feb 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Volna Pinsk, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Nikita Karpuk
“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.
Market8 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Volna Pinsk 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 Volna Pinsk can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vitaliy Kibuk commits to Volna Pinsk for another 1 years.
Squad1 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market1 Feb 2027
Ilya Selitskiy is 20, and Volna Pinsk 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.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
The numbers do not look good at Volna Pinsk
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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Nikita Karpuk 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 Volna Pinsk, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Wages eat 230% of everything Volna Pinsk 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
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vyacheslav Purak, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
Vitaliy Kibuk 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kirill Kovalevich, and the manager let it.
Squad18 Jan 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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Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kirill Kovalevich and Volna Pinsk agree another 4 years.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market11 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vitaliy Urbanovich trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market11 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Volna Pinsk know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
Vitaliy Kibuk 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.
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
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Vitaliy Kibuk knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vitaliy Kibuk trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.
Market4 Jan 2027
The name of Vyacheslav Purak keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Volna Pinsk say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 146% of everything Volna Pinsk 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
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vyacheslav Purak, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Volna Pinsk may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad21 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Dec 2026
Only the photograph left for Anton Susha
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Anton Susha will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volna Pinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Dmitriy Nizhnik 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Artem Vlasov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Nikita Karpuk knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nikita Karpuk trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market14 Dec 2026
The clock does Artem Vlasov’s negotiating for him
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Volna Pinsk could ask drops and the wages Artem Vlasov can ask rise.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The move was somebody else's story. What it left behind was a dressing-room stall nobody has taken and a player who keeps looking at it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Volna Pinsk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vitaliy Kibuk commits to Volna Pinsk for another 1 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Alexandr Kuchinskiy 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market30 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Volna Pinsk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad30 Nov 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market23 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Volna Pinsk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Stanislav Letsko, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market16 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Maxim Grechikha will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volna Pinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 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 Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Anton Susha
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market9 Nov 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Volna Pinsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kirill Kovalevich commits to Volna Pinsk for another 4 years.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vyacheslav Purak, and the manager let it.
Market9 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Volna Pinsk, another week without a signature from Maxim Grechikha.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk 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 Volna Pinsk, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Volna Pinsk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kirill Kovalevich and Volna Pinsk agree another 4 years.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
177% of the income goes out in wages at Volna Pinsk
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
“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 Nov 2026
Artem Vlasov 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 Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Volna Pinsk may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market26 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yaroslav Oreshkevich will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volna Pinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Aldiiar Ältaev 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market19 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Maxim Grechikha will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volna Pinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Volna Pinsk may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Vyacheslav Purak 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Vitaliy Kibuk
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vitaliy Kibuk will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volna Pinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk 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
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vyacheslav Purak trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market12 Oct 2026
2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Volna Pinsk money.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Vyacheslav Purak keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Volna Pinsk say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Volna Pinsk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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 Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
256% of the income goes out in wages at Volna Pinsk
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market28 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yaroslav Oreshkevich will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volna Pinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk 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.
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk 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 Volna Pinsk, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market28 Sep 2026
2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Volna Pinsk money.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Volna Pinsk would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Uneasy
Market21 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Volna Pinsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 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 Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk 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 Volna Pinsk, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market21 Sep 2026
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Volna Pinsk money.
Market21 Sep 2026
The window shut and Stanislav Letsko is still in the building
Volna Pinsk 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Volna Pinsk know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Vitaliy Kibuk
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vitaliy Kibuk will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volna Pinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Volna Pinsk may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gleb Loyko was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Volna Pinsk, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market14 Sep 2026
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Volna Pinsk money.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Stanislav Letsko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Volna Pinsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market7 Sep 2026
Artem Vlasov 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 Volna Pinsk can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 307% of everything Volna Pinsk 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Gleb Loyko 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 Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Anton Susha told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Anton Susha has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Volna Pinsk.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Volna Pinsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match29 Aug 2026
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Alexandr Kuchinskiy 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Isloch paid $22.0K and Volna Pinsk took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 8.56 — 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Artem Vlasov gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match29 Aug 2026
It needed Egor Nikoporenok to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Lida, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad31 Aug 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 Volna Pinsk, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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
Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Volna Pinsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market24 Aug 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Inter Turku moved on, Stanislav Letsko reports back to Volna Pinsk, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Volna Pinsk's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Volna Pinsk has to find a result from somewhere.
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 Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.05 — 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Volna Pinsk, another week without a signature from Vitaliy Urbanovich.
Match22 Aug 2026
It needed Daniil Kulikov to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Belshina, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market24 Aug 2026
Volna Pinsk have let the market know Stanislav Letsko can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Uneasy
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Volna Pinsk out
Out, 0‑1 to Molodechno, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Volna Pinsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 26 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Volna Pinsk
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Volna Pinsk are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk 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.
Squad17 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.
Market17 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Volna Pinsk needed to.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
Daniil Tkachik has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Volna Pinsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market10 Aug 2026
Niva come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Volna Pinsk did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Evgeniy Gremza and Volna Pinsk agree another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Vitaliy Kibuk 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.
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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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 Volna Pinsk, another week without a signature from Maxim Grechikha.
Market10 Aug 2026
He is 19, and nobody at Volna Pinsk signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.30 on the card, and the Volna Pinsk support went home talking about one name.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer from Slavia Mozyr for Stanislav Letsko 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Volna Pinsk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Evgeniy Gremza commits to Volna Pinsk for another 2 years.
Squad3 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 Volna Pinsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Dmitriy Nizhnik has come up in conversations Volna Pinsk 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 8.11 — 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Volna Pinsk, another week without a signature from Vitaliy Kibuk.