The Zorya Courier
Market5 Feb 2029
Zorya say no — this time
The offer from Dynamo Kyiv for Vitalii Dakhnovskyi 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.
Match3 Feb 2029
Zorya cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Kyrylo Siheiev arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Kyrylo Siheiev has, at Zorya, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Volodymyr Shepeliev 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 Zorya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Nazariy Muravskyy signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nazariy Muravskyy and Zorya agree another 4 years.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Zorya agree a free transfer for Danylo Ishchenko
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Player ratings5 Feb 2029
Vitalii Dakhnovskyi was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
Match3 Feb 2029
Yevhenii Pastukh the difference as Zorya beat Chornomorets
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Yevhenii Pastukh. 1‑0 against Chornomorets, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad5 Feb 2029
A row about effort at Zorya
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juninho was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Player ratings Yevhenii Pastukh was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- The dugout A promise honoured for Yehor Nazaryna
- Transfer targets Zorya ask about Oleksandr Pshenychniuk