Marked for Dmytro Myronenko
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad2 Aug 2027
181 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Chernihiv know exactly what they have.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
The instruction came from the boardroom and the dugout did not agree with it. Somebody will go, the fee will be called good business, and the manager will spend the season rebuilding around the space.
Market2 Aug 2027
Only the photograph left for Roman Rostokin
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Roman Rostokin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Chernihiv the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad2 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Chernihiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market2 Aug 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yaroslav Makarenko has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market2 Aug 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pavlo Marlos has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market2 Aug 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Danylo Bezus has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Crisis
Market17 May 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Chernihiv can pretend not to have heard.
Squad17 May 2027
56 days out for Eduard Halstian after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Chernihiv will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad17 May 2027
A muscle injury and 16 days out for Yehor Kartushov
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Chernihiv will quote 16 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout17 May 2027
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Squad17 May 2027
Maksym Tatarenko was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad17 May 2027
A row about effort at Chernihiv
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yehor Shalfieiev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom17 May 2027
Wages eat 122% of everything Chernihiv earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout17 May 2027
Denys Holub 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.
Market17 May 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Andrii Novikov signs something — a contract at Chernihiv or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Squad29 Mar 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 22 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 105 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market29 Mar 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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Chernihiv may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Maksym Tatarenko was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Emre Eksi 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.
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
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.
Market29 Mar 2027
The name of Denys Bezborodko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Chernihiv say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Match13 Feb 2027
15 matches without a win for Chernihiv
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Chernihiv are no longer polite ones.
Match15 Feb 2027
Every point is an argument now for Chernihiv
Position 16 and 11 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market15 Feb 2027
“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 Chernihiv, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Dmytro Myronenko: 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.” Chernihiv have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Maksym Tatarenko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match13 Feb 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Taras Yaremchuk to a room that had heard them before.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Chernihiv
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vyacheslav Koidan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. 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.
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Crisis
Squad28 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Roman Sudakov
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chernihiv lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Dec 2026
9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match26 Dec 2026
8 matches without a win for Chernihiv
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Chernihiv are no longer polite ones.
Market28 Dec 2026
“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 Chernihiv, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Chernihiv
Maksym Tatarenko 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Chernihiv training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikita Tepliakov 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
189% of the income goes out in wages at Chernihiv
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Match26 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Uneasy
Match3 Oct 2026
11 matches without a win for Chernihiv
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Chernihiv are no longer polite ones.
Market5 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Chernihiv
Maksym Tatarenko 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
3 matches without a goal for Chernihiv
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Nikita Tepliakov 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 248% of everything Chernihiv earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Market5 Oct 2026
Jake Hopper is 18, and Chernihiv 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.
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Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Chernihiv's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Chernihiv has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Chernihiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Taras Yaremchuk after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Chernihiv
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oleksandr Roshchynskyi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
Chernihiv take on the side everybody is chasing
Chornomorets arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oleksandr Roshchynskyi, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Denys Bezborodko’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Chernihiv needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match26 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Chernihiv
1‑4 against Kolos, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
A cup embarrassment at Kolos follows Chernihiv home
1-4. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Chernihiv
6 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Chernihiv had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Polissia, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Maksym Tatarenko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.