Marked for Yaroslav Buravtsov
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market23 Nov 2026
“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.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Chernihiv
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match21 Nov 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Podillia defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Chernihiv
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Chernihiv are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Chernihiv can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 720% of everything Chernihiv earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“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.
Match5 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
At 17 years old, Yaroslav Buravtsov became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Market7 Sep 2026
Chernihiv have made Daniil Volskyi available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market7 Sep 2026
The chase for Kristoffer Klaesson ended with $2.9M changing hands and Aalesund out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer from Chornomorets for Denys Ihnatenko 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Metalist left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
264% of the income goes out in wages at Dynamo Kyiv
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Dynamo Kyiv have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Squad7 Sep 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Kristoffer Klaesson knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kostiantyn Vivcharenko trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match15 Aug 2026
Kryvbas made Dynamo Kyiv work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Taras Mykhavko commits to Dynamo Kyiv for another 5 years.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Dynamo Kyiv will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Loan watch17 Aug 2026
3 appearances away from home and 2 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.