Thomas Witsel

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The Victoriia Sumy Herald

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market28 Feb 2028

Thomas Witsel 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 Victoriia Sumy can pretend not to have heard.

Squad28 Feb 2028

Tempers go at Victoriia Sumy

Vladyslav Khameliuk 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.

Boardroom28 Feb 2028

The numbers do not look good at Victoriia Sumy

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Squad28 Feb 2028

Words at Victoriia Sumy training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Danylo Knysh 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.

Loan watch28 Feb 2028

Jean Galindo has seen enough of Zalgiris

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Victoriia Sumy, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Market28 Feb 2028

A long bet from Victoriia Sumy on Burak Unai

He is 16, and nobody at Victoriia Sumy signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief

Back issues
80 Edition

The Victoriia Sumy Herald

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match5 Feb 2028

No end in sight to Victoriia Sumy's wait for a win

23 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Victoriia Sumy has to find a result from somewhere.

Match5 Feb 2028

The goals have deserted Victoriia Sumy

12 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Victoriia Sumy can tell you which week it ends in.

Match7 Feb 2028

Every point is an argument now for Victoriia Sumy

Position 16 and 17 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Boardroom7 Feb 2028

Victoriia Sumy put Interim Coach on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market7 Feb 2028

Taras Kocherhin asks to leave Victoriia Sumy

“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.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Wiktor Benedyktowicz 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 Victoriia Sumy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Danylo Knysh 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.

Match5 Feb 2028

Metalurh Zaporizhzhia take the points off Victoriia Sumy

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad7 Feb 2028

The manager makes an example of Vladyslav Kucheruk

“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