Marked for Vitaliy Harmash
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Arsenii Plaksa
27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Oleksandriya lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Vitaliy Harmash: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Oleksandriya have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Yurii Kopyna 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 Oleksandriya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Crisis
Squad1 Feb 2027
Fernando Henrique 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.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match30 Jan 2027
0‑1 to Epicentr, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Oleksandriya training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roman Tolochko 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Taras Dmytruk is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Oleksandriya has been clear about where Taras Dmytruk stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
Fernando Henrique 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match21 Nov 2026
Three points for Oleksandriya, 1‑0 the final word against Metalist in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.20 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Anton Drozd falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vitaliy Harmash and Oleksandriya agree another 3 years.
Squad23 Nov 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Oleksandriya told Roman Tolochko something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Off the bench and decisive: Ostap Prytula
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Oleksandriya were going nowhere until he came on.
Market23 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Papa Ndiaga Yade signs something — a contract at Oleksandriya or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.