The Victoriia Sumy Herald
Squad31 Jul 2028
The knee: Serhii Miakushko out for 118 days
118 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Victoriia Sumy lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market31 Jul 2028
Volodymyr Radulskyi 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 Victoriia Sumy can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout31 Jul 2028
Timon Näpfer says Victoriia Sumy went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Victoriia Sumy
Bohdan Biloshevskyi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom31 Jul 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Victoriia Sumy
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Vladyslav Khameliuk 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 targets31 Jul 2028
Door shut on Dmytro Hodia
Victoriia Sumy asked and Obolon said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces31 Jul 2028
One of their own: Timon Näpfer
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match29 Jul 2028
Victoriia Sumy see off Podillia
Three points for Victoriia Sumy, 2‑0 the final word against Podillia in a contest settled by the finer margins.
In brief
- Market Victoriia Sumy promote Viktor Tymchyk from within
- Market One of our own: Artem Matvienko joins the Victoriia Sumy first team
- Market One of our own: Andriy Marlos joins the Victoriia Sumy first team