The Metalist Herald
Squad4 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Viacheslav Churko out for 138 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Metalist will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad4 Oct 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Yaroslav Sanin
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Metalist lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
Filip Firbacher: 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.” Metalist have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market4 Oct 2027
Danylo Kaidalov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Metalist they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Viacheslav Churko signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Viacheslav Churko commits to Metalist for another 2 years.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Metalist
Artem Kozak 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.
Match2 Oct 2027
A bad afternoon for Metalist against Rukh
1‑2 to Rukh, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
Denys Malynovskyi faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Denys Malynovskyi after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Wages eat 88% of everything Metalist earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Daniil Prykhodko
- The dugout Denys Pidruchnyi is still being punished for one mistake
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Petro Lutsiv