The Veres Herald
Squad31 Jul 2028
Konstantinos Stamoulis damages knee ligaments — 81 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 81 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match29 Jul 2028
8 matches without a win for Veres
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Veres are no longer polite ones.
The dugout31 Jul 2028
Fabrício Yan says Veres 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.
Squad31 Jul 2028
6 saves: Denys Tvardovskyi was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The dugout31 Jul 2028
Baton Zabërgja frozen out at Veres
This is not rotation. Baton Zabërgja has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Veres is pretending otherwise.
Boardroom31 Jul 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Veres
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Words at Veres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Baton Zabërgja 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 targets31 Jul 2028
Veres rebuffed over Vladyslav Kochergin
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shakhtar have kept their man, and Veres go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout31 Jul 2028
The manager makes an example of Baton Zabërgja
“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.
In brief
- Market Yevhen Stepanenko steps up from the Veres academy
- Market One of our own: Pavlo Buialskyi joins the Veres first team
- Market One of our own: Anton Vanat joins the Veres first team