Marked for Viktor Tryhub
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Oleksiy Matvienko has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Victoriia Sumy and Epicentr have settled on $670.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Market5 Jul 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Victoriia Sumy they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at Victoriia Sumy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Danylo Knysh 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Dmytro Ulianov 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
The medical room confirms 24 days on the sidelines for Artem Shpyronok, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
A loan enquiry to Karpaty: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Market5 Jul 2027
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad29 Mar 2027
Yurii Klymchuk damages knee ligaments — 81 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 81 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad29 Mar 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.
Market29 Mar 2027
Nika Gagnidze hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kolos can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Kolos may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Kolos
Nair Tiknizyan 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 dugout29 Mar 2027
Elias Telles 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.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match4 Nov 2026
Kolos through in the cup
A 3‑3 win over Epicentr, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match4 Nov 2026
Anton Salabai had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Epicentr were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The match ball belongs to Anton Salabai, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Viktor Tryhub: 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.” Kolos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Kolos
Nair Tiknizyan 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
At last: Kolos win one
6 matches without a win, and then this, against Obolon. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
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Upbeat
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with Metalist; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market17 Aug 2026
Metalist come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Kolos did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$540.0K on the table at Dynamo Kyiv. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Kolos
Elias Telles 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match15 Aug 2026
Oleksandriya left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Viktor Tryhub, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Kolos
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Cheliadin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.