Cody David

Attacking Midfielder (R) - LNZ
18 Sep 2026
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Marked for Cody David

7 Edition

The LNZ Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom14 Sep 2026

Window shuts: 2 in, 5 out at LNZ

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 2 arrived, 5 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets14 Sep 2026

Pablo Castro stays at UCSA as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. LNZ will try again when the window opens; UCSA may not be selling by then.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Tempers go at LNZ

Oleksii Palamarchuk 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.

Transfer targets14 Sep 2026

LNZ baulk at the price for Vasyl Burtnyk

Nyva wanted more than $220.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Cody David runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match12 Sep 2026

LNZ get the job done against Poltava

A 1‑0 win over Poltava, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Shota Nonikashvili 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.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

The afternoon belonged to Yehor Tverdokhlib

A mark of 7.90, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad14 Sep 2026

8 new faces, and LNZ are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

  • Squad No place for Everton Dias in the new shape
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout No hiding place for Nazar Balaba
Back issues
6 Edition

The LNZ Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match5 Sep 2026

LNZ taken apart

0‑3 to Shakhtar, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market7 Sep 2026

Nazariy Muravskyy puts it in writing

“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 LNZ, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market7 Sep 2026

LNZ say no — this time

The offer from Nasarawa United for Cody David was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market7 Sep 2026

Business is business: Yevhenii Pastukh goes

Oleksandriya paid $1.7M and LNZ took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

LNZ go back to the board over Vasyl Burtnyk

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $222.5K — a club that wants Vasyl Burtnyk enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

An offer of $220.0K for Vasyl Burtnyk

LNZ have gone to Nyva with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

No deal for Oleh Len at that price

LNZ offered $65.0K; Ahrobiznes said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

LNZ rebuffed over Vasyl Burtnyk

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nyva have kept their man, and LNZ go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A falling-out at LNZ

Everton Dias and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief