Marked for Bohdan Redushko
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Uneasy
Transfer targets10 Jul 2028
The offer went to Fulham this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Jul 2028
Leeds United wanted more than $48.4M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market10 Jul 2028
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Oleksandriya waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Dynamo Kyiv is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market10 Jul 2028
Business between these two is never simply business. Dynamo Kyiv wanted Vinicius Tobias, Shakhtar did not want to sell to them of all clubs, and the signature at the end of it says who won that argument.
Market10 Jul 2028
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market10 Jul 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets10 Jul 2028
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Ibrahima Dabo gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ibrahima Dabo has just signed for Dynamo Kyiv, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Jul 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matvii Ponomarenko commits to Dynamo Kyiv for another 5 years.
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Uneasy
Market6 Mar 2028
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Rukh waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Dynamo Kyiv is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market6 Mar 2028
The offer from Minsk for Bohdan Redushko was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market6 Mar 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dynamo Kyiv they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market6 Mar 2028
The deal that would have taken Vladyslav Zakharchenko to Polissia has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Dynamo Kyiv with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Nazar Voloshyn and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Mykola Shaparenko 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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
A place in the month's best eleven for Artem Somka
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Artem Somka has come out of that comparison in the side, and Dynamo Kyiv have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
Mykola Shaparenko has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dynamo Kyiv 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.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Oleksandr Pikhalionok trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Upbeat
Squad29 Nov 2027
120 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dynamo Kyiv lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match27 Nov 2027
Whatever happens, Dynamo Kyiv do not lose
12 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market29 Nov 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dynamo Kyiv they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Patrick Dragovic 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.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Mykola Shaparenko 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 dugout29 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pavlo Liusin, and the manager let it.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
Ninety minutes of Nazar Voloshyn at his very best
Marked 8.25. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Dynamo Kyiv.
Match27 Nov 2027
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 4 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Loan watch29 Nov 2027
“I did not go to Podillia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dynamo Kyiv and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 18 matches say the rest.
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Triumph
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
Dynamo Kyiv and Deportivo Cali have settled on $4.8M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 32. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad6 Sep 2027
107 appearances across 12 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Dynamo Kyiv know exactly what they have.
Market6 Sep 2027
Minsk come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Dynamo Kyiv did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shakhtar have kept their man, and Dynamo Kyiv go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match4 Sep 2027
Still nobody has beaten Dynamo Kyiv
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market6 Sep 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dynamo Kyiv they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Patrick Dragovic 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniil Yurchenko is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
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Upbeat
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 46. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.88, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market23 Aug 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Dynamo Kyiv have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market23 Aug 2027
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Match21 Aug 2027
Nobody wants to play Dynamo Kyiv right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
$2.3M was the most the club would pay and Shakhtar were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market23 Aug 2027
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Patrick Dragovic and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market23 Aug 2027
Add another name to the list: Saipa have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Maksym Diachuk. The answer from Dynamo Kyiv has not changed — yet.
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Uneasy
Market21 Jun 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and MSK Zilina waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Dynamo Kyiv is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
$2.7M settles it between the clubs for Danyil Alefirenko
Chornomorets have accepted the money. What Dynamo Kyiv do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market21 Jun 2027
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market21 Jun 2027
LNZ come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Dynamo Kyiv did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Zorya have kept their man, and Dynamo Kyiv go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad21 Jun 2027
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Market21 Jun 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Patrick Dragovic and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nazar Voloshyn was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Uneasy
Market14 Jun 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market14 Jun 2027
Nazar Voloshyn wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Dynamo Kyiv hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Jean Pedroso is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Patrick Dragovic 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Eduardo Guerrero and Dynamo Kyiv agree another 5 years.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words at Dynamo Kyiv training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mykola Shaparenko 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Dynamo Kyiv have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dynamo Kyiv, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Market24 May 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vladyslav Zakharchenko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dynamo Kyiv the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 May 2027
Patrick Dragovic and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad24 May 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ruslan Pichienko is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at Dynamo Kyiv training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mykola Shaparenko 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.
The dugout24 May 2027
“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.
The dugout24 May 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.
Market24 May 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Patrick Dragovic’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Loan watch24 May 2027
30 appearances at Karpaty and the goals keep coming. Dynamo Kyiv are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Loan watch24 May 2027
23 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Upbeat
Match6 Feb 2027
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Market8 Feb 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Dynamo Kyiv people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
No sign of nerves from Shola Ogundana at 21 — 8.28
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Shola Ogundana did not need any: 8.28, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad8 Feb 2027
191 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Dynamo Kyiv know exactly what they have.
Market8 Feb 2027
Zorya come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Dynamo Kyiv did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match6 Feb 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Dynamo Kyiv did not have in the autumn.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
$1.7M was the most the club would pay and Bukovyna were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad8 Feb 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 Dynamo Kyiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 38. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market1 Feb 2027
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
11 seasons and 191 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
The offer went to Bukovyna this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dynamo Kyiv may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match30 Jan 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Dynamo Kyiv did not have in the autumn.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Patrick Dragovic 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.