The Zorya Courier
Market17 Apr 2028
Only the photograph left for Maksym Tatarenko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Maksym Tatarenko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zorya the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market17 Apr 2028
Zorya may not be able to give Jordan what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Jordan wants continental football; whether Zorya can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Artem Slesar 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 Zorya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
Andrija Janjić frozen out at Zorya
This is not rotation. Andrija Janjić has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Zorya is pretending otherwise.
Market17 Apr 2028
One of our own: Mykhailo Lunyov joins the Zorya first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mykhailo Lunyov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Apr 2028
Andriy Vanat steps up from the Zorya academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andriy Vanat 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.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Words at Zorya training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Kaliuzhnyi 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.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
Oleh Ocheretko has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Zorya will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
Domagoj Jelavić is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
In brief
- Match Continental football is in reach for Zorya
- The dugout Anton Salabai knocks on the manager's door
- Squad The penny has dropped for Daniil Khrypchuk