The Obolon Courier
Match4 Aug 2029
Chastening afternoon for Obolon
A 1‑4 beating by Oleksandriya was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad6 Aug 2029
A fracture rules Serhii Miakushko out for 73 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Obolon will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2029
Fee done, terms next for Maksym Diachuk
Obolon and Dynamo Kyiv have settled on $2.7M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2029
No thanks: Artur Mykytyshyn rejects the move
Obolon had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at LNZ, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad6 Aug 2029
6 saves: Nazarii Fedorivskyi was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market6 Aug 2029
Sixten Mathisen puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Obolon, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market6 Aug 2029
Only the photograph left for Vadym Stashkiv
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vadym Stashkiv will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Obolon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2029
Volodymyr Saliuk due for a Obolon medical
Everything agreed with Shakhtar, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Vladyslav Artemchuk is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
In brief
- Squad Tempers go at Obolon
- The dugout No hiding place for Illia Kutia
- Boardroom Inquest at Obolon