Marked for Bohdan Redushko
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market22 Feb 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Kolos they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market22 Feb 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kolos, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Enoch Dzeble, 19, steals the show — 7.68
Marked 7.68 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market22 Feb 2027
Anton Salabai has left for Kryvbas in a $1.1M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Kolos
Elias Telles 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.
Match20 Feb 2027
It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Kolos asked and Probiy said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces22 Feb 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Bohdan Redushko has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match20 Feb 2027
It finished 2‑0, and it was Ardit Tahiri’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Kolos.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Luka Stankovski
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Player ratings
Nobody on the pitch touched Ardit Tahiri
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
Back issues
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kolos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Kolos may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Roman Macek pops up at the right end — 7.74
7.74, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Match16 Jan 2027
Metalist left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom18 Jan 2027
Oleksandriya will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Andrii Storchous has pre-agreed a move to Kolos, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Luka Stankovski
“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.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
The game went through Yurii Klymchuk — 6.68
Marked 6.68 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Kolos
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniil Khrypchuk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 2‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kolos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Kolos get the job done against Obolon
A 3‑1 win over Obolon, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Nika Gagnidze was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.12. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Oleksandr Demchenko was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.00. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Ardit Tahiri
“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.
Match30 Nov 2026
Halfway: Kolos sit in position 6
23 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Kolos
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniil Khrypchuk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Kolos
Pavel Rassolko 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.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Bohdan Redushko has become a man the manager trusts
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The dugout
Mykyta Burda knocks on the manager’s door
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Kolos
Roman Macek 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Mykyta Burda
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Kolos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniil Khrypchuk 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
12 new faces, and Kolos are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Match24 Oct 2026
Kolos and Zorya take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Market26 Oct 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Dmytro Matsapura has his answer from Kolos; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Artem Husol
At 20 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ardit Tahiri commits to Kolos for another 3 years.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Ardit Tahiri
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Kolos
Pavel Rassolko 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Kolos
Something was said to Bohdan Redushko and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Artem Husol has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Kolos 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Mykyta Burda 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 Kolos, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A wage question at Kolos
Mykyta Burda has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
Market12 Oct 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Dmytro Matsapura may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
In brief
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Market
Ivan Pakholiuk linked with a move away
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Looking ahead
Looking ahead: the trip to LNZ
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Upbeat
Market21 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Kolos
Andrii Poniedielnik and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Kolos asked and LNZ said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over Metalist, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ibrahim Kané was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.22. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oleksandr Demchenko, and the manager let it.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I watch every Kolos game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Telavi runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Roman Macek: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Kolos will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Kyrylo Sudakov, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.