Emmanuel Julien

Left Midfielder - Free Agent
7 Jan 2031
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Emmanuel Julien

206 Edition

The Podillia Courier

8 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Volodymyr Rudiuk asks to leave Podillia

“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.

Squad

Lucas 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 Podillia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A late step up for Mael Macía

At 24 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.

Boardroom

$106.4K of the owner's money at Podillia

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.

Squad

Niklas Krause signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Niklas Krause commits to Podillia for another 4 years.

Boardroom

Wages eat 95% of everything Podillia 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.

Squad

Jack McEvilly 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.

Boardroom

Intake day at the Podillia academy

6 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.

Market

Nazar Semenenko placed on the list

Podillia have made Nazar Semenenko available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

Back issues
153 Edition

The Podillia Courier

2 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Yevhenii Profatylo 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 Podillia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Maksym Kulish

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Maksym Kulish will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Podillia the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Clément Michel signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Clément Michel and Podillia agree another 2 years.

Squad

Real improvement from Volodymyr Isakov at Podillia

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Volodymyr Isakov is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Podillia

Oleksandr Nikolyshyn 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.

Squad

A move Emmanuel Julien would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Emmanuel Julien is living that version at Podillia, and it tends to show in the first month.

In brief