Marked for
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Steady
Match21 Oct 2028
3‑0, and Serhii Kyslenko took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Inhulets tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings23 Oct 2028
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.76, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Inhulets may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market23 Oct 2028
“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.
Market23 Oct 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Maksym Skorokhod will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Inhulets the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad23 Oct 2028
Artem Benediuk 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.
Squad23 Oct 2028
Dmytro Kasimov 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.
Player ratings23 Oct 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.39, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings23 Oct 2028
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Market28 Aug 2028
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Inhulets have lost him in all but the paperwork.
The dugout28 Aug 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Inhulets may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets28 Aug 2028
Everything agreed with Polissia, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Match26 Aug 2028
Inhulets make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Inhulets have 3 straight wins of it.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Words exchanged at Inhulets
Illia Hadzhuk 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.
Squad28 Aug 2028
At 25 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Words at Inhulets training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vitalii Dubilei 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.
Transfer targets28 Aug 2028
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.
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Crisis
Squad7 Aug 2028
19 appearances across 8 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Inhulets know what they have.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
The Inhulets board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Market7 Aug 2028
“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 targets7 Aug 2028
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Inhulets have done the hard part with Metalist, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Match5 Aug 2028
No end in sight to Inhulets's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Inhulets has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Real improvement from a squad player at Inhulets
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. a squad player is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad7 Aug 2028
A falling-out at Inhulets
Illia Hadzhuk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Aug 2028
At 24 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Transfer targets7 Aug 2028
Inhulets asked and Oleksandriya said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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Uneasy
The dugout24 Jul 2028
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Market24 Jul 2028
“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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ibrahima Dabo is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market24 Jul 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Omelian Wiliam Chubak will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Inhulets the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets24 Jul 2028
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Dynamo Kyiv is saying, and nobody at Inhulets is enjoying the guessing.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Artem Benediuk 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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
At 28 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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
A row about effort at Inhulets
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vitalii Dubilei was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Jul 2028
Obolon have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.