The Chernihiv Courier
Squad7 Feb 2028
Maksym Serdiuk in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Chernihiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
The numbers do not look good at Chernihiv
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
Kolos tell Chernihiv: Oleksandr Demchenko is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A row about effort at Chernihiv
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maksym Pukhtieiev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match5 Feb 2028
Chernihiv come up short against Chornomorets
Chornomorets left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Roman Serdiuk
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Chernihiv lose Ihor Kryvtsov
37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
Ramik Hadzhyiev was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
The month belongs to Ramik Hadzhyiev
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Chernihiv have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Transfer targets A loan move for Oleh Horin is in the works
- Market No place for Pavlo Shushko in the plan