The UCSA Post
Squad3 Aug 2026
Oleksiy Khoblenko signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Oleksiy Khoblenko and UCSA agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at UCSA
Pablo Castro 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
UCSA find a way past Metalist
Metalist made UCSA work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market3 Aug 2026
The ambition of Danylo Polonskyi outgrows UCSA early
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Vavá Guerreiro at his very best
Marked 8.20. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at UCSA.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Vladyslav Dvorovenko 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Oleksiy Khoblenko
Marked 8.04 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at UCSA has picked up the phone to Pablo Castro
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and UCSA 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.
In brief
- Transfer targets UCSA try to borrow Wendell
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Market UCSA and Serhii Petko are talking past each other