Oleksandr Krets

Left Back - Free Agent
8 Feb 2032
Sunday
Process

Marked for Oleksandr Krets

258 Edition

The Polissia Gazette

7 Jul 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

67 days out for Ruslan Babenko after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Polissia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Polissia

Maksym Braharu 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

Real improvement from Yehor Kaptenko at Polissia

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Yehor Kaptenko is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Igor Owczarek

Polissia asked and Aris Thessaloniki said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Christian Stefani signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Christian Stefani commits to Polissia for another 4 years.

Boardroom

Intake day at the Polissia academy

8 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.

Market

The Oleksandr Nazarenko 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.

The dugout

When it matters, Yaroslav Karaman 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.

The dugout

Matvii Burenko 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.

In brief

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The Polissia Gazette

2 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

49 days out for Stuart Moore after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Polissia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Dmytro Irodovskyi gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Dmytro Irodovskyi has just signed for Polissia, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Maksym Braharu wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Boardroom

Oleksandr Krets signs for Vorskla while still at Polissia

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Oleksandr Krets has agreed terms with Vorskla for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

A falling-out at Polissia

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

Squad

Words at Polissia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oleksandr Nazarenko 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 dugout

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The dugout

Anton Drozd 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.

Market

Mykola Haiduchyk linked with a move away

The name of Mykola Haiduchyk keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Polissia say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief