Marked for Ivan Kocherhin
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad6 Mar 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market6 Mar 2028
The deal that would have taken Ihor Snurnitsyn to Zorya has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Nyva with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad6 Mar 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andrii Boriachuk commits to Nyva for another 3 years.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Words exchanged at Nyva
Andrii Boriachuk and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad6 Mar 2028
A row about effort at Nyva
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ihor Snurnitsyn was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivan Palamarchuk, and the manager let it.
Loan watch6 Mar 2028
“I watch every Nyva game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Inhulets runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
Wages eat 89% of everything Nyva 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
The name of Marian Mysyk keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Nyva say nothing, which says plenty.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad29 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Nyva
Andrii Boriachuk 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 dugout29 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Valentyn Napuda, and the manager let it.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I watch every Nyva game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at UCSA runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
Wages eat 92% of everything Nyva 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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Marian Mysyk knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Marian Mysyk trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
11 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Nyva may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad14 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nyva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Dec 2026
Chornomorets left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market14 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Oleh Nazarenko 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
One of our own: Danylo Burda joins the Nyva first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Danylo Burda is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Stanislav Pikhalyonok left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.
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Upbeat
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Nyva
Artem Habelok and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Nyva
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrii Boriachuk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marian Mysyk, and the manager let it.
Match14 Nov 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Stanislav Pikhalyonok after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Bukovyna in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A first team debut at 14 for Ivan Kocherhin
Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 14. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.