Makar Tverdokhlib

Striker - Shakhtar
10 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Makar Tverdokhlib

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The Shakhtar Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Shakhtar silence Dynamo Kyiv

A derby is never about the football alone, but the football helped: 1‑0, and the away end emptied early. Bragging rights renewed for another season.

Match

A European night to remember for Shakhtar

1‑1 against Austria Wien, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

Match

Cup progress for Shakhtar

A 3‑0 win over Nyva, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

What a way to start for Makar Tverdokhlib — 8.54

1 on the scoresheet on his first appearance and a mark of 8.54 beside it. Most debuts are got through; this one was enjoyed, by him and by everybody watching it.

Match

The view from the top for Shakhtar

38 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.

Player ratings

A brace, and Newertton takes the afternoon — 8.41

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Newertton provided it, and the 8.41 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

A derby belongs to Dmytro Kryskiv

Beat anybody else and it is three points. Beat them and it is a story a city tells for a decade. Shakhtar have their man.

Squad

A falling-out at Shakhtar

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

Market

Oleh Ocheretko raises the bar for Shakhtar

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Shakhtar heard it as anything else.

In brief

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The Shakhtar Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Alisson runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Kauã Elias turns Palermo down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Market

Luca Meirelles agrees terms with Sporting CP

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Shakhtar people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Business is business: Eguinaldo goes

Young Boys paid $5.7M and Shakhtar took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Player ratings

Muhamadou Kanteh, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.63

A mark of 7.63 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Yevhen Pavliuk is a Shakhtar player

The fee is $1.5M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Metalist drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

Yevhen Pavliuk gets the move he always wanted

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

Match

Shakhtar cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Words exchanged at Shakhtar

Marlon Gomes 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.

In brief