The Metalist Chronicle
Squad19 Jul 2027
A fracture rules Ihor Snurnitsyn out for 82 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Metalist will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market19 Jul 2027
Metalist say no — this time
The offer from Cortulua for Peter Itodo 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
Baton Zabërgja puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Metalist, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Danylo Varakuta 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 Metalist this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Viktor Karolak gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Viktor Karolak has just signed for Metalist, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Ivan Kaliuzhnyi 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.
In brief
- Market Metalurh Zaporizhzhia expected to open talks for Vladyslav Kalitvintsev
- Market The Danylo Varakuta question follows Metalist around