Borys Manko

Goalkeeper - Dynamo Kyiv U21
2 Jul 2028
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Marked for Borys Manko

69 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Zorya end the Dynamo Kyiv run at 18

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 18 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

The dugout

Aliou Thiaré: 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.” Dynamo Kyiv have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words at Dynamo Kyiv training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kostiantyn Vivcharenko 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Dynamo Kyiv

Vitaliy Buialskyi 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.

Match

Zorya take the points off Dynamo Kyiv

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Looking ahead

All roads lead to Shakhtar

The fixture the calendar is arranged around. Form goes out of the window, the table is not consulted, and for ninety minutes Dynamo Kyiv will be judged on one thing only.

Boardroom

Inquest at Dynamo Kyiv

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Volodymyr Stepanenko to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Hussayn Touati

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

Back issues
66 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Dynamo Kyiv through in the cup

A 1‑0 win over Livyi Bereh, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match

Dynamo Kyiv up to position 2

29 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market

Vladyslav Supriaha puts it in writing

“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 Dynamo Kyiv, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Prince Amoako, 20, steals the show — 7.90

Marked 7.90 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

The dugout

Borys Manko keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dynamo Kyiv may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

Dynamo Kyiv make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Dynamo Kyiv have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Prince Amoako is the real thing at 20

A season average of 7.03 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Dynamo Kyiv know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad

Tempers go at Dynamo Kyiv

Oleksandr Tymchyk 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.

Squad

Words at Dynamo Kyiv training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kostiantyn Vivcharenko 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.

In brief

64 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Prince Amoako, 20, steals the show — 8.11

Marked 8.11 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Match

Dynamo Kyiv cannot stop winning

5 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.

Player ratings

Andrii Iarmolenko, 38, rolls back the years — 8.12

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.12 at 38, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Borys Manko puts it in writing

“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 Dynamo Kyiv, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Bogdan Popov in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dynamo Kyiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Kostiantyn Vivcharenko 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Prince Amoako

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Dynamo Kyiv see off Epicentr

Three points for Dynamo Kyiv, 2‑0 the final word against Epicentr in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Mykola Shaparenko was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.18. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

54 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Dynamo Kyiv baulk at the price for Kayne Ramsay

Charlton Athletic wanted more than $22.4M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Prince Amoako at 20 — 7.80

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Prince Amoako did not need any: 7.80, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Vintage Vitaliy Buialskyi — 7.98

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.98, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market

Anton Tsarenko hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dynamo Kyiv can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Borys Manko: 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.” Dynamo Kyiv have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Dynamo Kyiv

Oleksandr Tymchyk 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.

Squad

Andrii Iarmolenko signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andrii Iarmolenko and Dynamo Kyiv agree another 2 years.

Squad

Words at Dynamo Kyiv training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kostiantyn Vivcharenko 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 terraces

Dynamo Kyiv supporters have found a favourite in Prince Amoako

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Prince Amoako has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief