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From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom16 Jul 2029
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Victoriia Sumy
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market16 Jul 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad16 Jul 2029
The medical room confirms 113 days on the sidelines for Andriy Dediaev, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad16 Jul 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Victoriia Sumy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market16 Jul 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market16 Jul 2029
The name of Nikos Vlioras has come up in conversations Victoriia Sumy were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Uneasy
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market2 Jul 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad2 Jul 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Victoriia Sumy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Maksym Boiko knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Maksym Boiko trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market2 Jul 2029
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad2 Jul 2029
A season on the outside for Tim Dijks
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Victoriia Sumy has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Uneasy
Match30 Aug 2028
0‑1 against Zorya, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad4 Sep 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market4 Sep 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match2 Sep 2028
No end in sight to Victoriia Sumy's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Victoriia Sumy has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad4 Sep 2028
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.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
A performance of 8.56 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad4 Sep 2028
48 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad4 Sep 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luciano Quiroz, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Boardroom22 May 2028
Pressure builds in the Victoriia Sumy boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad22 May 2028
71 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad22 May 2028
Daniil Khrypchuk 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.