“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 The request is on a desk at Obolon, and it is not being withdrawn.
The offer from Veres for Valerii Sad was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
The deal that would have taken Ambrosii Chachua to Polissia has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Karpaty with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 3 appearances for Dynamo Kyiv.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2027
Oleh Bilyk is the division's player of the month — 7.63
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 Epicentr man on 7.63 with 0 goal contributions.
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.33 over the month and 0 goal contributions, from a Kudrivka player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Leandro Andrade reports back to Polissia with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 2 of them made by a Epicentr player marked 7.31, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
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. 7.89 across 3 matches for Dynamo Kyiv.
“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.
1 in 3 for Epicentr. 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.
The month closes with Clayton out in front — 8 goals in 5 games, and Dynamo Kyiv have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
Clayton is the division's player of the month — 8.47
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 Dynamo Kyiv man on 8.47 with 10 goal contributions.
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 6.96 over the month and 3 goal contributions, from a Kolos player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Shakhtar can pretend not to have heard.
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Kolos player marked 6.96, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Add another name to the list: Metalist have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Oleh Ocheretko. The answer from Shakhtar has not changed — yet.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
Highest marks in the league belong to a Dynamo Kyiv man
Clayton averaged 8.47 over 5 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.
“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.
Marked 7.89 across it, 0 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Oleksandriya have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.22 over the month and 0 goal contributions, from a Kudrivka player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
“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 LNZ, and it is not being withdrawn.
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Shakhtar player marked 6.41, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
Highest marks in the league belong to a Oleksandriya man
Jakub Markovič averaged 7.89 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.
Everyone has stopped pretending: Libertad will make the call about Lassina Traoré this week. Shakhtar have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Marked 7.47 across it, 3 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Shakhtar have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Kudrivka
Denys Marchenko was marked 7.24 and had a hand in 0 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
“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 Obolon, and it is not being withdrawn.
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 2 of them made by a Rukh player marked 6.84, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a Polissia man
Yevhen Volynets averaged 7.68 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.
“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.
2 in 4 for Dynamo Kyiv. 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.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Heorhii Bushchan signs something — a contract at Polissia or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The month closes with Peter Itodo out in front — 3 goals in 5 games, and Metalist have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Oleh Kudryk is the division's player of the month — 7.64
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 Obolon man on 7.64 with 0 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Kolos
Shola Ogundana was marked 7.03 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.
3 assists, 7.05, and a Shakhtar 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 Nov 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a Polissia man
Yevhen Volynets averaged 7.65 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.
“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.
Marked 8.17 across it, 5 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Dynamo Kyiv have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Zorya
Roman Salenko was marked 7.19 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.
“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 Zorya, and it is not being withdrawn.
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Polissia player marked 7.00, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Nazar Voloshyn is the division's best-marked player — 8.17
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. 8.17 across 4 matches for Dynamo Kyiv.
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Shakhtar hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Wesley Pomba wants continental football; whether Veres can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
3 in 4 for Dynamo Kyiv. 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.
Marked 7.92 across it, 8 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Al-Faisaly have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Al-Faisaly
Kauã Elias was marked 7.92 and had a hand in 8 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
The name of Vladyslav Kabaiev has come up in conversations Dynamo Kyiv were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Eleven names, chosen against everybody in the division who plays where they play. The LNZ man is one of them on 7.43 from 5 matches, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a harder one to argue with.
5 appearances at 7.37 for Metalist, and a selection that says he was better than everybody else in the division doing his job. Nobody frames one of these and everybody remembers being in it.
“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 Kolos, and it is not being withdrawn.
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Dynamo Kyiv hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market1 Aug 2026
Zorya may not be able to give Jordan what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Jordan wants continental football; whether Zorya can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.