Isaque

Central Midfielder - Shakhtar
10 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Isaque

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The Shakhtar Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Shakhtar march on in the cup

UCSA are out and Shakhtar go through, 5‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match

Marlon Gomes leads the rout of Rukh

5‑0, and Marlon Gomes took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Shakhtar tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Market

Pedrinho asks to leave Shakhtar

“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.

Market

The SV Elversberg deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Pedrinho reports back to Shakhtar with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Squad

3 goals for Newertton

The match ball belongs to Newertton, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Market

Isaque says no to Dinamo Batumi

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Isaque had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Player ratings

Both of them Marlon Gomes's — 8.28

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.28, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

Nobody wants to play Shakhtar right now

6 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Player ratings

Alisson, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.51

A mark of 8.51 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

In brief

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The Shakhtar Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Terms done: Dmytro Riznyk is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Olympique de Marseille waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Shakhtar is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Match

Shakhtar tear Metalist apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Metalist, and it could have been more.

Market

Not going: Kauã Elias stays at Shakhtar

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” SM Caen had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market

Karpaty come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Shakhtar did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

Alisson, 20, steals the show — 8.34

Marked 8.34 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Transfer targets

Polissia tell Shakhtar: Oleksii Hutsuliak is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

Shakhtar cannot stop winning

3 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Shakhtar

Dmytro Riznyk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Business is business: Viktor Tsukanov goes

Karpaty paid $910.0K and Shakhtar took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

In brief

2 Edition

The Shakhtar Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Vinicius Tobias turns Jablonec down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Alisson at 20 — 8.00

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Alisson did not need any: 8.00, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Torpedo Kutaisi come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Shakhtar did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

Marlon Gomes pops up at the right end — 7.79

7.79, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Market

Karpaty watching Oleh Ocheretko

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Shakhtar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market

Business is business: Marian Shved goes

Vorskla paid $1.4M and Shakhtar took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Marlon Gomes stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Marlon Gomes and Shakhtar agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Home is on Marlon Gomes's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Shakhtar are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Tempers go at Shakhtar

Dmytro Riznyk 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.

In brief