Marked for Nathan Hateboer
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market25 Jun 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Inhulets, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Jun 2029
98 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad25 Jun 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andrii Buleza commits to Inhulets for another 4 years.
Squad25 Jun 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Inhulets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Jun 2029
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Inhulets are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Market25 Jun 2029
The Agustín Mello conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Veres will make the call about Agustín Mello this week. Inhulets have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad30 Apr 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Inhulets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Apr 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mykyta Dzen, and the manager let it.
Squad30 Apr 2029
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nathan Hateboer and Inhulets agree another 3 years.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market23 Apr 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Inhulets, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad23 Apr 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Inhulets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Apr 2029
The manager makes an example of Léo
“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.
Market23 Apr 2029
He is 17, and nobody at Inhulets signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market23 Apr 2029
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Stanislav-Nuri Malysh’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Mykyta Dzen asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.