The Karpaty Courier
Market26 Jun 2028
Marko Sapuha moves on
Zorya pay $1.8M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Karpaty lose Ruslan Harmash
23 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad26 Jun 2028
A falling-out at Karpaty
Xeber Alkain and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
Too dear: Karpaty walk away from Gabriel Eskinja
$270.0K was the most the club would pay and Zorya were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Vladyslav Babohlo 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.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
Door shut on Pablo Ortiz
Karpaty asked and Chacarita Juniors said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Vavá Guerreiro signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vavá Guerreiro and Karpaty agree another 3 years.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
Karpaty ask about Yll Gashi
A loan enquiry to Bayern Munich: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
Karpaty try to borrow Mikkel Bro Hansen
PSV have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Yevhenii Isaienko
- The dugout Rostyslav Liakh is still being punished for one mistake
- The dugout Tymur Stetskov has become a man the manager trusts