The Shakhtar Post
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Pedrinho
Successful dribbles: 53. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market24 Aug 2026
Ivan Petriak 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 The request is on a desk at Shakhtar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
Shakhtar say no — this time
The offer from Kolos for Muhamadou Kanteh 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Lassina Traoré 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 Shakhtar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Artem Bondarenko falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market24 Aug 2026
Danylo Udod attracts admirers
The name of Danylo Udod has come up in conversations Shakhtar were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Yehor Nazaryna 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Pedro Henrique
A mark of 7.47, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Mykola Matviienko dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.