The Chernomorets Post
Squad18 Jun 2029
A fracture rules Dmitry Kamenschikov out for 72 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Chernomorets will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match18 Jun 2029
Chernomorets sink to position 16
30 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market18 Jun 2029
Maxim Matyusha 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 The request is on a desk at Chernomorets, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets18 Jun 2029
The paperwork begins on Daniil Shantaliy
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Chernomorets have done the hard part with Dinamo Moscow, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Boardroom18 Jun 2029
Chernomorets to lose Emil Yanchev for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Emil Yanchev has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Igor Konovalov 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 Chernomorets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Bart Kosiorek arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Bart Kosiorek has, at Chernomorets, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Zaur Tarba 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.
Transfer targets18 Jun 2029
Chernomorets rebuffed over Dmitry Tsypchenko
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lokomotiv Moscow have kept their man, and Chernomorets go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Market Timur Alikberov attracts admirers
- Market A stepping stone, not a home, for Torbjørn Kallevåg
- The dugout A promise honoured at Chernomorets