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From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market24 May 2032
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 May 2032
A falling-out at Nyva
Maksym Mekhaniv and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 May 2032
18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad24 May 2032
A row about effort at Nyva
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marian Mysyk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market24 May 2032
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Nyva know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout24 May 2032
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 Serhii Kiblytskyi has written the date down.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces26 Jan 2032
Anger at Nyva spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad26 Jan 2032
Ihor Snurnitsyn damages knee ligaments — 28 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom26 Jan 2032
Pressure builds in the Nyva boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Match24 Jan 2032
The wait goes on for Nyva
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings26 Jan 2032
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market26 Jan 2032
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad26 Jan 2032
A falling-out at Nyva
Maksym Mekhaniv and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Jan 2032
Words at Nyva training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marian Mysyk is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces26 Jan 2032
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.