Daniel Banyk

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23 Feb 2033
Wednesday
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The Inhulets Post

21 Feb 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for Inhulets

1‑4 against Nyva, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

Oleksandr Symeniuk keeps Inhulets in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Myenty Abena breaks a bone — 125 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 125 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Marco Nazzaro asks to leave Inhulets

“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.

Match

The season ends: position 10 for Inhulets

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 38 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

The dugout

Mykyta Burda says Inhulets 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.

Match

No end in sight to Inhulets's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Inhulets has to find a result from somewhere.

The dugout

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Squad

Vitalii Dubilei 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.

In brief

  • Boardroom 160% of the income goes out in wages at Inhulets
  • Squad Tempers go at Inhulets
  • Boardroom The Inhulets debt reaches $24.9M
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342 Edition

The Inhulets Post

14 Feb 2033
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Myenty Abena breaks a bone — 132 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 132 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Ruslan Shaparenko, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.02

A mark of 8.02 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Illia Davydok hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Inhulets can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Eyes on Maurizio Rossetti again

The phone has started ringing about Maurizio Rossetti again, and this time the name on the line is Feniks. Inhulets are listening politely and promising nothing.

Player ratings

Maurizio Rossetti runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words exchanged at Inhulets

Maurizio Rossetti 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

Words at Inhulets training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Nazzaro is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Ruslan Shaparenko

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Inhulets share the spoils with Livyi Bereh

A 2‑2 draw with Livyi Bereh leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Market Inhulets and Daniel Banyk are talking past each other
  • Looking ahead A test against the best for Inhulets
249 Edition

The Inhulets Post

5 May 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Andrii Vasin 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 Inhulets, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Inhulets

Arsentiy Doroshenko 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.

Market

Talks stall between Inhulets and Arsentiy Doroshenko

“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.

Boardroom

Inhulets have to sell first

The manager has a list and the board has a condition attached to it. That is not a crisis — half of football works this way — but it decides which of the two of them gets his way in August.

The dugout

Sviatoslav Lykhvar has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Inhulets will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad

Words at Inhulets training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Cogliati is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

Sviatoslav Lykhvar 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.

Market

The Vitalii Dubilei talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Inhulets know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

A door opens for Serhii Kiblytskyi

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief