Marked for Jon Ceberio
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Jihlava had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Epicentr close the window on a squad of their own making
16 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Market14 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done: Gabriel Eskinja joins from Zorya in a deal worth $610.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Partizan keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Epicentr have gone to Shakhtar 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jon Ceberio 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Nil Coch 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 Epicentr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match5 Sep 2026
Nowhere to hide for Epicentr
0‑4 against Karpaty, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Union Magdalena is saying, and nobody at Epicentr is enjoying the guessing.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Epicentr
Bohdan Boichuk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Epicentr training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jon Ceberio 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladyslav Moroz, and the manager let it.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad7 Sep 2026
13 new faces, and Epicentr 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
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Transfer targets
Epicentr try to borrow Marko Lekić
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Market
Jihlava are about to pick up the phone
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Uneasy
Match26 Aug 2026
Epicentr through in the cup
A 2‑0 win over Veres, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad31 Aug 2026
9 saves: Oleh Bilyk was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
$610.0K on the table at Zorya. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: San Miguel keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Epicentr
Bohdan Boichuk 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Vladyslav Supriaha scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Zorya, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jon Ceberio 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.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Crisis
Market24 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Epicentr did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Universidad de Concepcion is saying, and nobody at Epicentr is enjoying the guessing.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Epicentr's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Epicentr has to find a result from somewhere.
Match22 Aug 2026
Epicentr cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Bohdan Boichuk 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Nil Coch for 16 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Epicentr will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Epicentr training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jon Ceberio 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Pandurii have kept their man, and Epicentr go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match22 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Uneasy
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Kristian Svystun would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Kristian Svystun is living that version at Epicentr, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market17 Aug 2026
Epicentr say no — this time
The offer from Livyi Bereh for Vadym Sydun 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Epicentr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Epicentr training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jon Ceberio 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Epicentr cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Epicentr asked and Patronato said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market17 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Epicentr have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jon Ceberio and Epicentr agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Jon Ceberio 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 targets3 Aug 2026
Epicentr asked and Radnicki Nis said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Epicentr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match1 Aug 2026
Metalist left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad3 Aug 2026
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Epicentr has picked up the phone to Oleh Bilyk
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Maksym Mykhailychenko to a room that had heard them before.