Marked for Maksym Misanov
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Jun 2031
A falling-out at Kolos
Elias Telles and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout9 Jun 2031
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anton Salabai, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Jun 2031
Vitalii Katrych falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad9 Jun 2031
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vladyslav Saichyshyn and Kolos agree another 3 years.
The dugout9 Jun 2031
Yurii Klymchuk 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 Kolos, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market9 Jun 2031
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Artem Cheliadin’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout9 Jun 2031
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Maksym Misanov is on it.
Market9 Jun 2031
The shop window has Elias Telles in it
Kolos have let the market know Elias Telles can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Market9 Jun 2031
7 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Kolos money.
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Uneasy
The dugout12 May 2031
“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.
Market12 May 2031
“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.
Squad12 May 2031
A falling-out at Kolos
Elias Telles and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 May 2031
Artem Cheliadin falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout12 May 2031
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmytro Karavayev, and the manager let it.
Market12 May 2031
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Artem Cheliadin’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout12 May 2031
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Maksym Misanov is on it.
Boardroom12 May 2031
Kolos keep producing them
38 graduates from an academy now rated 7 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.
The dugout12 May 2031
Elias Telles keeps his manager's vote
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Elias Telles plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Uneasy
Market14 Apr 2031
“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.
Squad14 Apr 2031
A falling-out at Kolos
Elias Telles and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Apr 2031
Words at Kolos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Cheliadin 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.
Squad14 Apr 2031
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Enoch Dzeble and Kolos agree another 3 years.
Squad14 Apr 2031
Dawid Polkowski wants to finish where he started
Every long career reaches the week the player starts thinking about the last one. He would like it to be at the club that first put him on a pitch, and Kolos now know that too.
The dugout14 Apr 2031
Anton Salabai 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 Anton Salabai trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market14 Apr 2031
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Artem Cheliadin’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout14 Apr 2031
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Maksym Misanov is on it.
Market14 Apr 2031
Kolos have let the market know Yehor Butenko can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
In brief
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Boardroom
The Kolos production line keeps running
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The dugout
The manager comes out for Elias Telles
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Match
A season winding down at Kolos
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Uneasy
Squad17 Mar 2031
A falling-out at Kolos
Elias Telles and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Mar 2031
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dmytro Karavayev commits to Kolos for another 4 years.
The dugout17 Mar 2031
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmytro Karavayev, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Mar 2031
A row about effort at Kolos
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oleksii Bezruchuk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad17 Mar 2031
The formation has left Yehor Butenko behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Kolos will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Market17 Mar 2031
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Artem Cheliadin’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout17 Mar 2031
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 dugout17 Mar 2031
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Daniil Khrypchuk has written the date down.
Market17 Mar 2031
No fee and no drama: Yehor Butenko has signed at Kolos, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
In brief
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Boardroom
The Kolos production line keeps running
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Match
Mid-table, and Kolos know it
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Crisis
Match1 Feb 2031
Nowhere to hide for Kolos
0‑3 against Polissia, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market3 Feb 2031
Kolos say no — this time
The offer from Karpaty for Denys Ndukve was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets3 Feb 2031
The clubs have shaken hands with Dynamo Kyiv; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market3 Feb 2031
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kolos, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market3 Feb 2031
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Dawid Polkowski will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kolos the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom3 Feb 2031
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Dawid Polkowski has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad3 Feb 2031
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Artem Cheliadin commits to Kolos for another 4 years.
Squad3 Feb 2031
Tempers go at Kolos
Elias Telles 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.
Squad3 Feb 2031
Kyrylo Osypenko falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.