The Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Courier
Squad13 Aug 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mykhailo Rudavskyi
92 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Metalurh Zaporizhzhia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market13 Aug 2029
Vilmos Jován 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 The request is on a desk at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout13 Aug 2029
Yehor Zaichenko says Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 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.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Tempers go at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
Orest Kuzyk 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.
Boardroom13 Aug 2029
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia now.
Squad13 Aug 2029
A late step up for Sulejman Seitkhalilov
At 27 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Transfer targets13 Aug 2029
Shakhtar tell Metalurh Zaporizhzhia: Denys Bida 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.
Match11 Aug 2029
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia come up short against Feniks
Feniks left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Vilmos Jován wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Transfer targets A loan move for Vladyslav Zakharchenko is in the works
- Market A stepping stone, not a home, for Christian Fellaini