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The Chornomorets Post

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Maksym Radchenko asks to leave Chornomorets

“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

Tempers go at Chornomorets

Marian Faryna 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.

The dugout

Artur Avahimian gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

A row about effort at Chornomorets

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oleksandr Kapliienko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Emerson Martins told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Emerson Martins has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Chornomorets.

The dugout

Oleh Pushkariov asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

Oleksandr Pshenychniuk has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Chornomorets 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 dugout

Vladyslav Klymenko has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Vladyslav Klymenko has written the date down.

Market

Ivan Kohut linked with a move away

The name of Ivan Kohut keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Chornomorets say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief