Ruslan Tkachenko

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28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ruslan Tkachenko

47 Edition

The Probiy Gazette

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Eduard Sobol out for 39 days

39 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Probiy lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Volodymyr Radulskyi asks to leave Probiy

“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.

Squad

Ruslan Tkachenko 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.

Market

Business is business: Maksym Hirnyi goes

Oleksandriya paid $190.0K and Probiy took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

A late step up for Ihor Huk

At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Bohdan Kovalenko

Probiy asked and Ahrobiznes said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Ruslan Kharuk 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 Probiy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Bohdan Orynchak's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Boardroom

Belts tighten at Probiy

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

In brief

Back issues
45 Edition

The Probiy Gazette

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

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Squad

A falling-out at Probiy

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

Squad

Vladyslav Babanin falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout

Ihor Huk 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 Probiy, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Bohdan Orynchak talk will not go away

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

Squad

A promotion for Ruslan Tkachenko

Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Ruslan Tkachenko has moved up it.

In brief