Mateo Ramirez

Left Back - Chernihiv
29 May 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Mateo Ramirez

146 Edition

The Chernihiv Courier

14 May 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Danylo Tuzenko 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 The request is on a desk at Chernihiv, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Chernihiv

Maksym Serdiuk 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 127% 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.

In brief

Back issues
142 Edition

The Chernihiv Courier

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Yehor Shalfieiev 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 Chernihiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

114% of the income goes out in wages at Chernihiv

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.

Squad

Anatolii Romanchenko knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Anatolii Romanchenko trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

140 Edition

The Chernihiv Courier

2 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Leon Amirkhanyan 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 The request is on a desk at Chernihiv, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Joakim Loureiro keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Chernihiv may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Edwin Ramaja signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Edwin Ramaja and Chernihiv agree another 4 years.

Squad

Yehor Shalfieiev 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 Chernihiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

$27.8K of the owner's money at Chernihiv

The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.

Boardroom

No signings allowed at Chernihiv

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.

Boardroom

The Chernihiv 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.

Squad

The armband comes off Andrii Novikov

Chernihiv will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

Market

Eduard Halstian runs his contract down

2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Chernihiv money.

In brief

137 Edition

The Chernihiv Courier

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Danylo Tuzenko 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 Chernihiv, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Paata Kiteishvili says Chernihiv 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Chernihiv

Yehor Shalfieiev 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.

Market

A long bet from Chernihiv on Mateo Ramirez

He is 17, and nobody at Chernihiv signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Dzhilindo Bezhubchenko

“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.

Squad

Andrii Stoliarchuk asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief