The Metalist Herald
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A brace, and Daniil Tepliakov takes the afternoon — 8.76
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Daniil Tepliakov provided it, and the 8.76 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $1.4M for Eduard Sarapii
Metalist have gone to Polissia with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Metalist go back to the board over Eduard Sarapii
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.6M — a club that wants Eduard Sarapii enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Akos Lang turns down Metalist
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Haladas keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Viacheslav Churko
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kyrylo Dihtiar signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kyrylo Dihtiar and Metalist agree another 5 years.
Match8 Aug 2026
Daniil Tepliakov sends Metalist past Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
It finished 2‑1, and it was Daniil Tepliakov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Metalist.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Metalist
Bohdan Porokh 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.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Metalist supporters have found a favourite in Yehor Abramov
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Yehor Abramov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
In brief
- Market Anton Babenko steps up from the Metalist academy
- Market Vladyslav Sydorchuk steps up from the Metalist academy
- Market Volodymyr Yaremchuk steps up from the Metalist academy