Oli Newman

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Epicentr
7 Jul 2028
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The Epicentr Sentinel

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad22 May 2028

A fracture rules Oleksii Sych out for 14 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Epicentr will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad22 May 2028

Oli Newman is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.

Market22 May 2028

Arsenii Vavshko has one foot out of the door

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

Squad22 May 2028

Tempers go at Epicentr

Kyrylo Kovalets 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.

Squad22 May 2028

Words at Epicentr training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lukáš Masopust 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.

The dugout22 May 2028

Jhonnatan 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.

The dugout22 May 2028

Maksym Yevpak knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Epicentr, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout22 May 2028

Ihor Kyriukhantsev has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Epicentr will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market22 May 2028

The Ruslanbek Jiyanov talk will not go away

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

In brief

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The Epicentr Sentinel

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets7 Feb 2028

Jhonnatan turns down Epicentr

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Oleksandriya keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Kyrylo Kovalets 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 Epicentr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Words at Epicentr training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lukáš Masopust 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.

The dugout7 Feb 2028

The manager makes an example of Geovane

“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.

Market7 Feb 2028

Epicentr buy the years ahead of Oli Newman

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.

Market7 Feb 2028

Ahrobiznes expected to open talks for Arsenii Vavshko

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Epicentr will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

The dugout7 Feb 2028

Moses Jarju is still paying for one afternoon at Epicentr

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout7 Feb 2028

When it matters, Maksym Yevpak plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Oli Newman is a square peg at Epicentr

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Player ratings Off the pace: Moses Jarju
  • Match Point won or two lost for Epicentr?