Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
“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 The request is on a desk at Feniks, and it is not being withdrawn.
LNZ will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Joaquinete has pre-agreed a move to Feniks, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad13 Oct 2031
Words at Feniks training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oleh Synytsia 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.
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Feniks will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Aleksandre Mikautadze is 17, and Feniks have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Feniks can pretend not to have heard.
Squad29 Sep 2031
Words at Feniks training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oleh Synytsia 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.
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout29 Sep 2031
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Interim Coach chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against UCSA? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.77 for the rest of it.
“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.
Match27 Aug 2031
Nobody could stop scoring
8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Feniks and Zorya in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Goalkeepers do not get to make mistakes; they get to make goals. He made one, he knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad1 Sep 2031
Words at Feniks training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oleh Synytsia 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.
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
The words a physio says slowly. 16 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.
“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 Feniks, and it is not being withdrawn.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at LNZ is saying, and nobody at Feniks is enjoying the guessing.
Feniks asked and Kolos 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 medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Roman Popov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad21 Jul 2031
Words at Feniks training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nelson Sanca 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.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Martin Sabitzer is on it.
In brief
The dugoutGeorge Evans knocks on the manager's door
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oleh Synytsia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Feniks will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oleh Synytsia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The club is not barred from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every name linked with Feniks this window arrives with a name leaving in the same sentence.
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Maksym Kovalenko has just signed for Feniks, and for once the answer mattered.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oleh Synytsia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 36 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Feniks is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.