Shay Spencer

Defensive Midfielder - Nyva
7 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Shay Spencer

4 Edition

The Nyva Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 26 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Daniil Denysenko at 20 — 7.74

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Daniil Denysenko did not need any: 7.74, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Shay Spencer gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Shay Spencer has just signed for Nyva, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Volodymyr Sharun 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 Nyva can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Valentyn Napuda 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 Nyva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Mateo Stefan for 16 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Nyva will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

Words at Nyva training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vasyl Burtnyk 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Nyva against Livyi Bereh

1‑2 to Livyi Bereh, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Vitaliy Mykhayliv runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief