Amer Agovic

Central Midfielder - Inhulets
18 Feb 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Amer Agovic

129 Edition

The Inhulets Post

15 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A day Bohdan Mohylnyi will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Inhulets

The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

The dugout

Amer Agovic: 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.” Inhulets have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

The dugout

Illia Hadzhuk frozen out at Inhulets

This is not rotation. Illia Hadzhuk has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Inhulets is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Words exchanged at Inhulets

Vitalii Dubilei 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Bohdan Mohylnyi

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.64, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Bohdan Mohylnyi sends Inhulets past Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

It finished 3‑2, and it was Bohdan Mohylnyi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Inhulets.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Artem Benediuk

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Inhulets told Artem Benediuk something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout

Artem Sirenko has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Artem Sirenko on a 3‑2 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief

Back issues
123 Edition

The Inhulets Post

4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Nobody wants to play Inhulets right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

A falling-out at Inhulets

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

Match

Bohdan Mohylnyi the difference as Inhulets beat Victoriia Sumy

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Bohdan Mohylnyi. 3‑2 against Victoriia Sumy, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces

One of their own: Yaroslav Buravtsov

He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

The dugout

No hiding place for Vitalii Diachenko

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vitalii Diachenko, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Vitalii Dubilei at his very best

Marked 8.28. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Inhulets.

Squad

The month belongs to Bohdan Mohylnyi

The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Inhulets have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Bohdan Mohylnyi

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Bohdan Mohylnyi has come out of that comparison in the side, and Inhulets have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Artem Sirenko, on a 3‑2 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

In brief

120 Edition

The Inhulets Post

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Andrii Melenchuk breaks Livyi Bereh hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Andrii Melenchuk scored in the 85th minute, Livyi Bereh had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Inhulets took the lot.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Andrii Melenchuk delivers — 7.85

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Andrii Melenchuk scored, was marked 7.85, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

The dugout

Nazar Prykhodko frozen out at Inhulets

This is not rotation. Nazar Prykhodko has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Inhulets is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Tempers go at Inhulets

Vitalii Dubilei 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

Andrii Melenchuk the difference as Inhulets beat Livyi Bereh

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Andrii Melenchuk. 1‑0 against Livyi Bereh, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Artem Sirenko, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Amer Agovic

“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.

The dugout

Yaroslav Riazantsev does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

Squad

Amer Agovic: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Inhulets will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

In brief

101 Edition

The Inhulets Post

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Tornike Guliashvili 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 Inhulets, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Danylo Kanevtsev turns down Inhulets

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Bukovyna keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Inhulets baulk at the price for Samba Diallo

Dynamo Kyiv wanted more than $500.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

Tempers go at Inhulets

Vitalii Dubilei 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.

Transfer targets

Inhulets rebuffed over Ihor Potimkov

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rukh have kept their man, and Inhulets go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A row about effort at Inhulets

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nazar Prykhodko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Amer Agovic stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Amer Agovic and Inhulets agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Nazariy Sudakov is in the works

Inhulets have made the call to Dynamo Kyiv. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad

Inhulets are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

In brief

100 Edition

The Inhulets Post

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Yaroslav Riazantsev 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 Inhulets can pretend not to have heard.

The terraces

Inhulets sell a favourite for $460.0K

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Serhii Kyslenko was one of the reasons people came, and $460.0K does not replace that by itself.

The dugout

Nazar Prykhodko frozen out at Inhulets

This is not rotation. Nazar Prykhodko has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Inhulets is pretending otherwise.

Transfer targets

Inhulets make their move for Artem Shulianskyi

$170.0K on the table at Oleksandriya. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Inhulets walk away from Kyrylo Barantsov

$390.0K was the most the club would pay and Obolon were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Inhulets

Vitalii Dubilei 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.

Market

Inhulets sell Serhii Kyslenko for $460.0K

Serhii Kyslenko has left for Oleksandriya in a $460.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Transfer targets

Zorya tell Inhulets: Yevhenii Pastukh is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Words at Inhulets training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nazar Prykhodko 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