Ruslan Harmash

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Tuesday
Process

Marked for Ruslan Harmash

100 Edition

The Karpaty Courier

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Squad

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 targets

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 targets

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

Back issues
44 Edition

The Karpaty Courier

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Vladyslav Tsymbalistyi

41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Karpaty lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Valentyn Rubchynskyi 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 Karpaty this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Karpaty

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Xeber Alkain was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Dzhuneyt Ali 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.

The dugout

Joaquinete knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Joaquinete trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

When it matters, Anton Zhylkin plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

The Xeber Alkain question follows Karpaty around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Xeber Alkain’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

Ivaylo Naydenov has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Ivaylo Naydenov has written the date down.

Match

Nothing left to play for but pride at Karpaty

43 points in position 7: too many to go down, too few to go anywhere. The honest description of a season like this is a shrug, and the supporters have already given it.

In brief