The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette
Match14 Aug 2027
Dynamo Kyiv run riot against Veres
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Both of them Volodymyr Brazhko's — 8.29
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.29, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market16 Aug 2027
Dynamo Kyiv turn down Taraz for Adam Yakubu
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market16 Aug 2027
Patrick Berg wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Dynamo Kyiv hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market16 Aug 2027
Mykola Shaparenko 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Dynamo Kyiv
Nazar Voloshyn 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Dynamo Kyiv training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oleksandr Zinchenko 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Arsenii Fedorenko stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Arsenii Fedorenko and Dynamo Kyiv agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Ninety minutes of Nazar Voloshyn at his very best
Marked 8.33. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Dynamo Kyiv.
In brief
- Player ratings Mykola Shaparenko in the eights
- Squad 11 new faces, and Dynamo Kyiv are still learning each other
- The dugout When it matters, Oleksandr Zinchenko plays