Sean Corry

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Victoriia Sumy
7 Nov 2029
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Sean Corry

160 Edition

The Victoriia Sumy Herald

20 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Darius Paulauskas asks to leave Victoriia Sumy

“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

Tempers go at Victoriia Sumy

Stanislav Sharay 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.

Boardroom

Victoriia Sumy counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Victoriia Sumy now.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Maksym Sasovskiy

Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

Maksym Boiko runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Vladyslav Khameliuk shuts the door

Defensive actions: 14, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

No hiding place for Sean Corry

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sean Corry, and the manager let it.

Match

Victoriia Sumy draw a blank against Feniks

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Feniks defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Player ratings

Maksym Yevpak keeps on missing

Shots: 6, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

In brief

Back issues
150 Edition

The Victoriia Sumy Herald

11 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Sean Corry asks to leave Victoriia Sumy

“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

Vladyslav Khameliuk 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 Victoriia Sumy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Wages eat 104% of everything Victoriia Sumy earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Market

Victoriia Sumy sign Raymond Robert, one for the future

Raymond Robert is 20, and Victoriia Sumy have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market

A long bet from Victoriia Sumy on Tim Dijks

He is 19, and nobody at Victoriia Sumy signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

Yuriy Dudnyk knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Yuriy Dudnyk trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

149 Edition

The Victoriia Sumy Herald

4 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Vladyslav Kryvtsov has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Victoriia Sumy can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market

Nikos Vlioras asks to leave Victoriia Sumy

“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

Stanislav Sharay 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 Victoriia Sumy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Home is on Sean Corry's mind

“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; Victoriia Sumy are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Market

Victoriia Sumy sign Marcel Fuchs, one for the future

Marcel Fuchs is 18, and Victoriia Sumy have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market

A long bet from Victoriia Sumy on Arnaud Leclercq

He is 20, and nobody at Victoriia Sumy signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief