Marked for Denilson Cabral
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market13 Mar 2028
Only the photograph left for Diego Ojeda
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Diego Ojeda will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Victoriia Sumy the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Vladyslav Khameliuk 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.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Álex Sánchez 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad6 Mar 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Victoriia Sumy may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Laurent Petit gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Laurent Petit has just signed for Victoriia Sumy, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad6 Mar 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andriy Dediaev and Victoriia Sumy agree another 2 years.
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Crisis
Squad11 Oct 2027
Denilson Cabral: 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.” Victoriia Sumy have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market11 Oct 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Oleksandr Lytvynenko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Victoriia Sumy the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Victoriia Sumy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stanislav Sharay is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad11 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Maksym Yevpak
“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.
Match9 Oct 2027
Feniks left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad11 Oct 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Squad24 May 2027
Pablo Santana: 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.” Victoriia Sumy have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market24 May 2027
“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.
Squad24 May 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 Victoriia Sumy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Upbeat
Match2 Jan 2027
Mukhammad Dzhurabaiev wins it after the whistle should have gone
90 minutes played. Mukhammad Dzhurabaiev found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Chernihiv went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Mukhammad Dzhurabaiev, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 8.57
A mark of 8.57 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Vladyslav Khameliuk 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Vladyslav Savitskiy is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Álex Sánchez 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 terraces4 Jan 2027
At 18 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad4 Jan 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.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
5.78 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Victoriia Sumy have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Vladyslav Khameliuk 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Álex Sánchez 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.
Squad9 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
7.36, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Victoriia Sumy had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.