The Feniks Herald
Market8 Mar 2027
Artur Remeniak asks to leave Feniks
“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.
Match6 Mar 2027
The wait goes on for Feniks
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Feniks — 7.61
1 for Oleksandr Chornomorets, marked 7.61, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Jess Degenaers keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Feniks may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Valerii Kucherov signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Valerii Kucherov commits to Feniks for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Shota Nonikashvili 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 Feniks this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Pavlo Orikhovskyi 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.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Serhii Kyslenko 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Roman Kovaliuk out for 29 days
The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for Roman Kovaliuk, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
In brief
- Match Feniks share the spoils with Prykarpattia
- Market Feniks buy the years ahead of Daniel Maxim
- The dugout Maksym Nazarenko: “We have to be better”