From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market1 Nov 2027
Toya Myogan 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 Veres can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
Pressure builds in the Veres boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Match30 Oct 2027
No end in sight to Veres 's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Veres has to find a result from somewhere.
Match30 Oct 2027
A bad afternoon for Veres against Rukh
1-2 to Rukh , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Alagie Wally
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Loan watch1 Nov 2027
“I did not go to Epicentr to sit and watch. I want to come back to Veres and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Market1 Nov 2027
The name of Wesley Pomba keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Veres say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Veres , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Loan watch1 Nov 2027
“Nobody here treats me like a loan player, and that is worth more than people think.” 12 appearances and 1 goals, and a summer that will decide it.
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Upbeat
Squad18 Oct 2027
Stanislav Boyko : 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.” Shakhtar have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Prosper Obah and Shakhtar agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match16 Oct 2027
Still nobody has beaten Shakhtar
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match16 Oct 2027
Epicentr made Shakhtar work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad18 Oct 2027
A season average of 7.29 with 5 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Loan watch18 Oct 2027
“I did not go to Rukh to sit and watch. I want to come back to Shakhtar and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad18 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Nika Gagnidze
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market18 Oct 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Oleh Pushkariov may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market18 Oct 2027
The Marlon talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shakhtar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Triumph
Match14 Aug 2027
Obolon will want this one forgotten quickly: 3-0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Shakhtar were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Match14 Aug 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Shakhtar did not have in the autumn.
Market16 Aug 2027
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.
Marlon Wisla Krakow come back empty-handed
Squad16 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Eguinaldo and Shakhtar agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Pedrinho 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
The name of Diego Arroyo has come up in conversations Shakhtar were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market16 Aug 2027
Chernihiv are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Shakhtar will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Eguinaldo 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Aug 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market9 Aug 2027
The name of Fabrício Yan has come up in conversations Veres were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match7 Aug 2027
A 2-1 win over Dynamo Kyiv , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dmytro Kliots and Veres agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Aug 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Veres have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“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.
Market9 Aug 2027
The name of Wesley Pomba keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Veres say nothing, which says plenty.
Market9 Aug 2027
No fee and no drama: Toya Myogan has signed at Veres , and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
Market9 Aug 2027
Veres have made Federico Marín available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
In brief
Boardroom
Veres were not finished after all
The terraces
The press cannot get enough of Kai Cipot
The terraces
Kai Cipot has his own song now
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Upbeat
Market26 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Danylo Udod and Shakhtar agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market26 Jul 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Shakhtar will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market26 Jul 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shakhtar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad26 Jul 2027
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Makar Tverdokhlib keeps the shirt for now, at Shakhtar 's convenience rather than his own.
In brief
Squad
Pedrinho is starting to look at home
Boardroom
The Shakhtar production line keeps running
Market
The trail goes cold on Alaa Ghram
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Upbeat
Match26 Apr 2027
Shakhtar up to position 357 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A season average of 7.06 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Shakhtar know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Loan watch26 Apr 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Shakhtar , and 5 appearances in 34 say he has earned the hearing.
Loan watch26 Apr 2027
24 appearances at Alanyaspor and the goals keep coming. Shakhtar are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Irakli Azarovi 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.
Market26 Apr 2027
The name of Viktor Korniienko keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Shakhtar say nothing, which says plenty.