The Metalist Herald
Squad5 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Vasyl Lutsiv
41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Metalist lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match5 Apr 2027
Metalist up to position 3
60 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Daniel Vernattus is the real thing at 21
A season average of 7.22 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Metalist know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Metalist
Artem Kozak 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Maksym Zaderaka 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.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
Kyrylo Dihtiar wants to come home
“I did not go to Polissia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Metalist and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
In brief
- Market Metalist sign Mykola Sobol, one for the future
- Market A long bet from Metalist on Viktor Karavayev
- Market Metalist buy the years ahead of Oleksiy Karavayev
- Market Metalist sign Viktor Tymoschuk, one for the future