The UCSA Post
Squad31 Jan 2028
Ruslan Tkachenko says UCSA went back on their word
“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.
Market31 Jan 2028
Roman Yuvkhymets 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 UCSA can pretend not to have heard.
Match29 Jan 2028
UCSA find a way past Inhulets
Inhulets made UCSA work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Boardroom31 Jan 2028
No signings allowed at UCSA
The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.
Boardroom31 Jan 2028
The UCSA debt reaches $13.1M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Gabriel Goulart left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Gabriel Goulart will call it something else in private.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Pablo Castro is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.28 with 3 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Bohdan Zadniprianets gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market31 Jan 2028
Oleksandr Osman linked with a move away
The name of Oleksandr Osman keeps appearing in other people's back pages. UCSA say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Market Simon Panguilef placed on the list
- The terraces The press have found their man in Yevhenii Profatylo
- The terraces The stand has a song for Yevhenii Profatylo