The Probiy Gazette
Market4 Oct 2027
Maksym Hirnyi 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 Probiy can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
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Squad4 Oct 2027
Andrii Bliznichenko signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andrii Bliznichenko commits to Probiy for another 2 years.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Probiy
Serhii Romanov 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.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
Nobody could get near Maksym Hirnyi
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market4 Oct 2027
One of our own: Ivan Makarenko joins the Probiy first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Makarenko is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
Roman Serdiuk 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.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Wages swallow 129% of the Probiy income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Squad4 Oct 2027
The formation has left Bohdan Dryhan behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Probiy will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
In brief
- Market Probiy and Serhii Romanov are talking past each other
- Squad A place in the month's best eleven for Ivan Shevchenko
- The dugout The view from the dugout