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The Zorya Courier

27 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad27 Aug 2029

Juninho says Zorya went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market27 Aug 2029

Patrick Villa 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 Zorya can pretend not to have heard.

Match25 Aug 2029

A bad afternoon for Zorya against Metalist

1-2 to Metalist, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad27 Aug 2029

Andrii Poniedielnik 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.

The terraces27 Aug 2029

The spotlight tightens on Oleksandr Saputin

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

Market27 Aug 2029

Pylyp Budkivskyi linked with a move away

The name of Pylyp Budkivskyi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Zorya say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

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The Zorya Courier

13 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad13 Aug 2029

A one-man rearguard from Oleksandr Saputin

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match11 Aug 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.

Match11 Aug 2029

Zorya see off Kolos

Three points for Zorya, 2-1 the final word against Kolos in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad13 Aug 2029

The manager makes an example of Martin Šubert

“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.

Market13 Aug 2029

Kudrivka expected to open talks for Vladyslav Chudasa

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Zorya will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Market13 Aug 2029

The Artem Slesar talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Zorya know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad13 Aug 2029

The shirt belongs to Oleh Ocheretko now

At 26 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Zorya have a decision that made itself.

Squad13 Aug 2029

Patrick Villa knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Zorya, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market13 Aug 2029

Roman Liopka placed on the list

Zorya have made Roman Liopka available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

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The Zorya Courier

19 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad19 Feb 2029

Daniil Utkin says Zorya went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match17 Feb 2029

9 unbeaten for Zorya

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Zorya did not have in the autumn.

Match17 Feb 2029

Zorya find a way past Kryvbas

Kryvbas made Zorya work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad19 Feb 2029

Artem Slesar is carrying Zorya

6 goals and a season average of 7.45. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad19 Feb 2029

Zorya lose Bohdan Haiduchok

25 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad19 Feb 2029

Oleh Ocheretko signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Oleh Ocheretko commits to Zorya for another 5 years.

In brief