Marked for Côme Fromager
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad10 Jan 2028
There were 8 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.
Match8 Jan 2028
The wait goes on for Kryvbas
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad10 Jan 2028
“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; Kryvbas are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad10 Jan 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Volodymyr Mulyk commits to Kryvbas for another 5 years.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Yvan Dibango 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 Kryvbas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Jan 2028
The goals have deserted Kryvbas
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Kryvbas can tell you which week it ends in.
Match8 Jan 2028
Shakhtar left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
Shots: 4, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
Off the pace: Araujo
A mark of 5.20 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Crisis
Squad22 Nov 2027
Denis-Will Poha: 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.” Kryvbas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Yvan Dibango 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 Kryvbas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match20 Nov 2027
Karpaty left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Giovany Herbert has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Kryvbas will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad22 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Danylo Khmelovskyi, and the manager let it.
Loan watch22 Nov 2027
13 appearances at IMT and the goals keep coming. Kryvbas are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Steady
Squad11 Oct 2027
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kryvbas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Yvan Dibango 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 Kryvbas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Giovany Herbert, and the manager let it.
Match9 Oct 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
“I watch every Kryvbas game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Chernihiv runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Too much change too quickly at Kryvbas
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Market11 Oct 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Volodymyr Mulyk’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
Marked 5.62, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Aug 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 68 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match25 Aug 2027
Kryvbas through in the cup
A 2‑1 win over Nyva, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match28 Aug 2027
Kryvbas throw away a 3-goal lead
3 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Kolos the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Kryvbas will enjoy reviewing.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.34, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.13, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Yehor Korobka is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Yvan Dibango 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 Kryvbas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Henrique Trevisan, and the manager let it.
Match28 Aug 2027
A 3‑3 draw with Kolos leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
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
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kryvbas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market26 Jul 2027
The hardest part of developing a footballer is admitting he needs to be somewhere else for a while. Matvii Bodnar leaves on loan to get the football he was not going to get here, which is the point of the exercise and not an admission of anything.
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Crisis
The terraces8 Feb 2027
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 26 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Côme Fromager: 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.” Kryvbas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Henrique Trevisan 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Henrique Trevisan, and the manager let it.
Match6 Feb 2027
Kolos left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market8 Feb 2027
Probiy are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Kryvbas will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
“I did not go to Rukh to sit and watch. I want to come back to Kryvbas and fight for my place.” 11 appearances in 22 matches say the rest.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Volodymyr Mulyk named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Volodymyr Mulyk is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
4 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
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Uneasy
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A brace, and Maksym Zaderaka takes the afternoon — 8.89
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Maksym Zaderaka provided it, and the 8.89 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad23 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kryvbas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oleksandr Kemkin, and the manager let it.
Match21 Nov 2026
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Denis-Will Poha dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Kryvbas man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Maksym Zaderaka was the best thing in any of them.
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Crisis
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces16 Nov 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 5 of the 25 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Henrique Trevisan 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad16 Nov 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.