Maksym Roienko

Goalkeeper - Dynamo Kyiv
9 Oct 2027
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Marked for Maksym Roienko

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The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Dynamo Kyiv do the business in Europe

2‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Dynamo Kyiv came through the finding-out well against NK Maribor.

Market

Daniil Yurchenko has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dynamo Kyiv they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

A falling-out at Dynamo Kyiv

Christos Zafeiris and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Maksym Roienko is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match

Leandro Andrade the difference as Dynamo Kyiv beat Karpaty

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Leandro Andrade. 1‑0 against Karpaty, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Leandro Andrade in the eights

A performance of 8.40 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Shola Ogundana

Marked 8.37 — 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.

Player ratings

Volodymyr Brazhko in the eights

A performance of 8.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Leandro Andrade

7 goals and a season average of 7.22 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

In brief

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The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Mykola Shaparenko leads the rout of Rukh

5‑0, and Mykola Shaparenko took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Dynamo Kyiv tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

A brace, and Mykola Shaparenko takes the afternoon — 8.13

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mykola Shaparenko provided it, and the 8.13 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Not going: Shola Ogundana stays at Dynamo Kyiv

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Radnik Surdulica had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Dynamo Kyiv — 7.90

1 for Volodymyr Brazhko, marked 7.90, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Market

Only the photograph left for Daniil Yurchenko

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniil Yurchenko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dynamo Kyiv the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at Dynamo Kyiv

Ruben Loftus-Cheek 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.

Squad

The step up is real for Maksym Roienko

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Volodymyr Brazhko has improved at 25, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad

A row about effort at Dynamo Kyiv

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leandro Andrade was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief