The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette
Market12 Jul 2027
Maksym Diachuk turns Radnik Surdulica down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market12 Jul 2027
Oleksii Sych 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 The request is on a desk at Dynamo Kyiv, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Dynamo Kyiv
Oleksandr Tymchyk 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words at Dynamo Kyiv training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brian Lopez 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.
Market12 Jul 2027
Dmytro Stepanenko steps up from the Dynamo Kyiv academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dmytro Stepanenko has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market12 Jul 2027
Dynamo Kyiv promote Oleh Lunyov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Oleh Lunyov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
Armin Gigović gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Armin Gigović is on it.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
No hiding place for Vitaliy Buialskyi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vitaliy Buialskyi, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“I want to play”: Shola Ogundana speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
In brief
- The dugout Taras Mykhavko knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad A season on the outside for Justin Lonwijk
- The dugout The manager comes out for Volodymyr Brazhko