Artem Babenko

Central Defender - Nyva U18
22 Nov 2027
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Process

Marked for Artem Babenko

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The Nyva Post

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Valentyn Napuda 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 Nyva can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at Nyva

Giorgi Maisuradze 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Nyva

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Match

Whatever happens, Nyva do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Vasyl Burtnyk 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.

Transfer targets

Bromley tell Nyva: Michael Cheek 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.

Market

Taras Tymchyk steps up from the Nyva academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Taras Tymchyk has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Denys Kravets joins the Nyva first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Denys Kravets is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Artem Babenko steps up from the Nyva academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Artem Babenko has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief