Maksym Mudryi

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Marked for Maksym Mudryi

122 Edition

The Kryvbas Post

27 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Bar Lin was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 37. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

Maksym Mudryi says Kryvbas went back on their word

“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.

The dugout

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Market

Nazar Popov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Kryvbas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match

4 matches without a win for Kryvbas

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Kryvbas are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A falling-out at Kryvbas

Yvan Dibango and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Volodymyr Vilivald 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.

Squad

Miracle Williams signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Miracle Williams commits to Kryvbas for another 4 years.

Match

Kryvbas and Metalist take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

Back issues
91 Edition

The Kryvbas Post

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Oleksandr Chernushkin breaks a bone — 77 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 77 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

A falling-out at Kryvbas

Yvan Dibango and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Denys Popov 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Dmytro Matsapura

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmytro Matsapura, and the manager let it.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Kryvbas

7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

When it matters, Araujo plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

55 Edition

The Kryvbas Post

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Araujo pops up at the right end — 7.44

7.44, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Match

The wait goes on for Kryvbas

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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Kryvbas

Yvan Dibango and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

The step up is real for Seb Huntelaar

At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Denys Popov 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.

Squad

Appearance number 100 for Bar Lin

100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

Transfer targets

Kryvbas ask about Mousa Chadli

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

Match

Kryvbas and Polissia take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

When it matters, Araujo plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Maksym Mudryi
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Dmytro Matsapura knocks on the manager’s door
51 Edition

The Kryvbas Post

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Tobias Asenzo is a medical away from Kryvbas

The deal with Leyton Orient is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market

The Metalurh Zaporizhzhia deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Nazar Popov reports back to Kryvbas with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Squad

Words exchanged at Kryvbas

Yvan Dibango and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets

Feniks tell Kryvbas: Yehor Hunichev is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Ante Bekavac signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ante Bekavac commits to Kryvbas for another 3 years.

Squad

A row about effort at Kryvbas

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

Market

Bukovyna watching Matvii Bodnar

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Kryvbas have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Kryvbas are still strangers to each other

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

The dugout

Araujo gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Araujo is on it.

In brief

44 Edition

The Kryvbas Post

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Kryvbas

Yvan Dibango and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

When it matters, Oleksandr Kemkin plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Maksym Mudryi 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.

Market

The Denys Popov story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Denys Popov signs something — a contract at Kryvbas or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

Ante Bekavac 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.

The dugout

Araujo keeps his manager's vote

The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Araujo plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.

In brief