The Poltava Herald
Market2 Aug 2027
Alexis Sinisterra hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Poltava can pretend not to have heard.
Match31 Jul 2027
4 matches without a win for Poltava
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Poltava are no longer polite ones.
Market2 Aug 2027
Kyrylo Kravets is a Poltava player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market2 Aug 2027
Vasyl Tymoschuk is a Poltava player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market2 Aug 2027
Valentyn Kryvtsov comes home
The shirt still fits. Valentyn Kryvtsov is back at Poltava, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Valerii Voskonyan 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 Poltava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Volodymyr Odariuk
“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.
Match31 Jul 2027
A bad afternoon for Poltava against Dynamo Kyiv
0‑1 to Dynamo Kyiv, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Loan watch2 Aug 2027
Ruslan Kotchenko wants to come home
“I did not go to Feniks to sit and watch. I want to come back to Poltava and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
In brief
- Player ratings Oleksandr Vivdych runs at them all day
- Squad Oleh Veremiyenko knocks on the manager’s door
- Player ratings Off the pace: Mykola Buzhyn