From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Sep 2038
The month closes with Oleksandr Shopronku out in front — 7 goals in 4 games, and Feniks have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2038
Marked 8.54 across it, 7 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Nyva have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2038
Heorhiy Zinchenko is the month's best young player — 7.87
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.87 over the month and 2 goal contributions, from a Vorskla U20 player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Sep 2038
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Livyi Bereh can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Sep 2038
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2038
Nobody made more than Carlos Franco this month
3 assists, 8.07, and a Epicentr player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2038
Daniel Golovatic is the division's best-marked player — 8.54
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.54 across 4 matches for Nyva.
Market1 Sep 2038
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Poltava they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 Sep 2038
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Veres heard it as anything else.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2038
5 goals in 4 appearances for Prykarpattia, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2038
A productive month at Nyva — 7 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2038
A productive month at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia — 5 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Aug 2038
The month closes with Jorge Gutiérrez out in front — 3 goals in 1 games, and Prykarpattia have the division's most feared finisher.
Market1 Aug 2038
“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 Probiy, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Aug 2038
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2038
2 assists, 8.35, and a Prykarpattia player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 Aug 2038
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Darijo Juranovic will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ahrobiznes the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Aug 2038
Add another name to the list: Livyi Bereh have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Anton Vydrych. The answer from Veres has not changed — yet.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2038
1 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2038
1 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2038
Enoch Dzeble up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Inhulets — 2 goals from 1 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2038
2 in 1 for Podillia. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2038
Further down the providers' column, where the Ahrobiznes man sits on 9.16 and a month of passes that were harder than the finishes they became.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2038
Enoch Dzeble: 1 assists this month — 10.00
Next on a chart nobody frames. 10.00 for a Inhulets player whose month is measured in other people's goals.
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Steady
Market1 Jul 2038
“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 Nyva, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Jul 2038
The offer from UCSA for Agustín Montiel 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.
Market1 Jul 2038
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
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Market1 Jun 2038
Ibai Sanz puts it in writing
“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 Livyi Bereh, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Jun 2038
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Kudrivka is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Jun 2038
“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
Steady
Market1 May 2038
“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.
Market1 May 2038
Only the photograph left for Nahuel Urtasún
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nahuel Urtasún will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bukovyna the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 May 2038
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Chernihiv, another week without a signature from Shota Gamsakhurdia.
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Steady
Market1 Apr 2038
“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.
Market1 Apr 2038
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Probiy they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 Apr 2038
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Stanislav Sudakov reports back to Bukovyna with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Mar 2038
The month closes with Anton Demchenko out in front — 6 goals in 3 games, and UCSA have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2038
The month belonged to Luka Lynch
Marked 8.71 across it, 5 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Feniks have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2038
Stanislav Sudakov is the month's best young player — 8.09
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 8.09 over the month and 0 goal contributions, from a Bukovyna player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Mar 2038
“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.
Market1 Mar 2038
The bid was some way short and Nyva did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Mar 2038
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Feniks they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2038
Hrafn Guðmundsson leads the division for assists — 7.91
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Podillia player marked 7.91, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2038
Highest marks in the league belong to a Feniks man
Kyrylo Palianychka averaged 9.07 over 2 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Market1 Mar 2038
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Vorskla heard it as anything else.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2038
3 goals in 2 appearances for Inhulets leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2038
4 in 3 for Ahrobiznes. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2038
2 goals in 3 appearances for Inhulets, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Feb 2038
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 9 goals in 5 appearances for UCSA.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2038
Marked 8.51 across it, 9 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. UCSA have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2038
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
Ihor Mudryk was marked 7.71 and had a hand in 2 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Feb 2038
“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 Probiy, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Feb 2038
Debrecen come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Victoriia Sumy did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2038
Nobody made more than Nikita Sednev this month
5 assists, 6.78, and a Feniks player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 Feb 2038
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Kudrivka is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2038
Cesare Bonetti is the division's best-marked player — 8.62
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.62 across 5 matches for Livyi Bereh.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2038
Anton Salabai up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Inhulets — 5 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2038
4 in 5 for Feniks. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2038
5 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2038
4 goals in 4 appearances for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Jan 2038
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 7 goals in 4 appearances for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2038
Enoch Dzeble is the division's player of the month — 8.49
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Inhulets man on 8.49 with 7 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2038
Stanislav Kryvtsov is the month's best young player — 7.05
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.05 over the month and 0 goal contributions, from a Metalurh Zaporizhzhia player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Jan 2038
“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.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2038
5 assists, 7.27, and a Bukovyna player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 Jan 2038
Elias Arifagic has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Chernihiv they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2038
Highest marks in the league belong to a Metalurh Zaporizhzhia man
Santiago Torres averaged 8.95 over 4 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2038
4 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2038
4 in 4 for UCSA. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2038
3 in 4 for Poltava. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2038
6 goals in 4 appearances for Inhulets, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Market1 Jan 2038
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Vorskla, another week without a signature from Chriso.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Dec 2037
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 7 goals in 4 appearances for Poltava.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2037
Andrii Vasin is the division's player of the month — 8.94
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Victoriia Sumy man on 8.94 with 4 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2037
Stanislav Sudakov is the month's best young player — 6.92
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 6.92 over the month and 0 goal contributions, from a Bukovyna player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Dec 2037
“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.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2037
Nobody made more than Georgy Karkuzaev this month
3 assists, 7.94, and a Vorskla player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 Dec 2037
Only the photograph left for Roque Ricca
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Roque Ricca will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ahrobiznes the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2037
Andrii Vasin is the division's best-marked player — 8.94
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.94 across 4 matches for Victoriia Sumy.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2037
A productive month at Kudrivka — 5 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2037
4 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2037
6 in 4 for Livyi Bereh. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2037
4 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Market1 Dec 2037
“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
Scoring charts1 Nov 2037
The month closes with Anton Demchenko out in front — 10 goals in 5 games, and UCSA have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2037
Marked 8.94 across it, 10 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. UCSA have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2037
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
Stanislav Kryvtsov was marked 7.44 and had a hand in 1 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Nov 2037
“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.
Market1 Nov 2037
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Feniks they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2037
Hrafn Guðmundsson leads the division for assists — 8.65
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 5 of them made by a Podillia player marked 8.65, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2037
Anton Demchenko is the division's best-marked player — 8.94
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.94 across 5 matches for UCSA.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2037
5 in 5 for Inhulets. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2037
A productive month at Inhulets — 5 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2037
5 in 5 for Vorskla. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2037
6 goals in 5 appearances for Chernihiv leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Market1 Nov 2037
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Podillia, another week without a signature from Hrafn Guðmundsson.
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Scoring charts1 Oct 2037
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 8 goals in 4 appearances for UCSA.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2037
Valentyn Napuda is the division's player of the month — 9.02
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Nyva man on 9.02 with 4 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2037
Ihor Mudryk is the month's best young player — 8.34
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 8.34 over the month and 2 goal contributions, from a Metalurh Zaporizhzhia player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Oct 2037
“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.
Market1 Oct 2037
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Bohdan Biloshevskyi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Epicentr the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2037
5 assists, 6.89, and a UCSA player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 Oct 2037
So close: Lucas Moreira’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Karpaty moved on, Lucas Moreira reports back to Vorskla, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2037
Valentyn Napuda is the division's best-marked player — 9.02
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 9.02 across 4 matches for Nyva.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2037
4 appearances, 6 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2037
4 goals in 4 appearances for Bukovyna, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2037
4 in 4 for Nyva. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2037
Jairo Torres up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Bukovyna — 6 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.