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Crisis
Market17 Apr 2028
“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.
Market17 Apr 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Feniks know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Maksym Radchenko 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.
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Crisis
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Feniks
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market6 Mar 2028
“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.
Market6 Mar 2028
Denys Balan has one foot out of the door
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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
The medical room confirms 115 days on the sidelines for Denys Balan, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad6 Mar 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Rostyslav Rusyn and Feniks agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad6 Mar 2028
“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.
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Crisis
Market28 Feb 2028
“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.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Maksym Radchenko: 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.” Feniks have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad28 Feb 2028
“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.
Market28 Feb 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Feniks know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market28 Feb 2028
Feniks spent the window trying to move Valerii Kucherov on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
Market28 Feb 2028
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Roman Kovaliuk may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Uneasy
Squad27 Dec 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Feniks have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market27 Dec 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.
Squad27 Dec 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.
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Crisis
Match22 Nov 2027
Feniks are in real trouble now
Position 16, 7 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market22 Nov 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.
Match20 Nov 2027
No end in sight to Feniks's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Feniks has to find a result from somewhere.
Match20 Nov 2027
Kryvbas left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad22 Nov 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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Steady
Squad16 Aug 2027
A one-man rearguard from Alex Payares
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market16 Aug 2027
Szymon Skonieczny is 20, and Feniks 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.
Match14 Aug 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.
Squad16 Aug 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Kevin Ocejo finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Feniks have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad16 Aug 2027
At 21 years old, Christian Mansilla became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.