Yehor Kaptenko

Central Midfielder - Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
28 May 2029
Monday
Process

Marked for Yehor Kaptenko

144 Edition

The Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Courier

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tempers go at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

Mikel Kaloshi 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.

Boardroom

88% of the income goes out in wages at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Andrii Porokhnia gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

Back issues
144 Edition

The Polissia Gazette

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Eduard Sarapii keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Polissia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Polissia lose Yevhen Volynets

109 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Tempers go at Polissia

Leandro Andrade 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.

In brief

140 Edition

The Polissia Gazette

2 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Yevhen Volynets signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yevhen Volynets and Polissia agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Polissia

Bohdan Mykhailichenko 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.

Boardroom

$4.0M on the table at Polissia

The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.

Loan watch

Yehor Kaptenko has seen enough of Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Polissia, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Leandro Andrade asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

The armband comes off Leandro Andrade

Polissia will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

In brief

136 Edition

The Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Courier

5 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tempers go at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

Mikel Kaloshi 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.

Squad

Radion Lisniak signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Radion Lisniak and Metalurh Zaporizhzhia agree another 4 years.

Squad

No hiding place for Serhii Lohinov

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Serhii Lohinov, and the manager let it.

Squad

Yehor Kaptenko has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Metalurh Zaporizhzhia know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Boardroom

92% of the income goes out in wages at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Market

Nobody at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia has picked up the phone to Manuel Díaz

24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

In brief

135 Edition

The Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Courier

26 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad

Metalurh Zaporizhzhia lose Mikel Kaloshi

20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Mikel Kaloshi 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 Metalurh Zaporizhzhia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

112 Edition

The Polissia Gazette

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Polissia say no — this time

The offer from Epicentr for Oleh Kudryk 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Polissia

Talles Costa 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.

Player ratings

Oleksandr Nazarenko in the eights

A performance of 8.73 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Talles Costa

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Maksym Braharu

“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.

Market

The Yehor Kaptenko conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Chernihiv will make the call about Yehor Kaptenko this week. Polissia have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Match

Polissia share the spoils with LNZ

A 1‑1 draw with LNZ leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Market

The Leandro Andrade talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Polissia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

“I want to play”: Alisson Oliveira Da Silva speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

In brief

104 Edition

The Polissia Gazette

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Polissia refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 60 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad

Edson: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Polissia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Borys Krushynskyi signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Borys Krushynskyi and Polissia agree another 5 years.

Squad

Lindon Emërllahu 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 Polissia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Vladyslav Siryk moves on

Rukh pay $180.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

Chernihiv watching Yehor Kaptenko

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Polissia have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief