Marked for Daichi Hayashi
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match16 Sep 2028
No end in sight to Probiy's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Probiy has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Roman Bilyi 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 Probiy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom18 Sep 2028
The numbers do not look good at Probiy
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.
Squad18 Sep 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrii Bliznichenko, and the manager let it.
Match16 Sep 2028
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Daichi Hayashi 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 ratings18 Sep 2028
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad18 Sep 2028
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Probiy told Daniil Volskyi something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
5.32. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
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Crisis
Match2 Sep 2028
Chastening afternoon for Probiy
A 2‑5 beating by Prykarpattia was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match30 Aug 2028
Probiy out of the cup
Shakhtar ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad4 Sep 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Probiy may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
The terraces4 Sep 2028
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 12 of the 25 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.07, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market4 Sep 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Probiy can pretend not to have heard.
Match2 Sep 2028
No end in sight to Probiy's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Probiy has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Tempers go at Probiy
Roman Bilyi 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.
Match2 Sep 2028
Daichi Hayashi among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Daichi Hayashi on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Probiy and Prykarpattia.
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Steady
Squad28 Aug 2028
Maksym Kalinkin is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Roman Bilyi 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 Probiy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Aug 2028
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Probiy know it.
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Crisis
Squad21 Aug 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Probiy may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jefferson Buitrago is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Tempers go at Probiy
Roman Bilyi 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.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Probiy counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Probiy now.
Squad21 Aug 2028
At 31 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Match19 Aug 2028
Chernihiv left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.23, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad14 Aug 2028
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Probiy have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Yoan Termezana is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Roman Bilyi 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 Probiy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Aug 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sergei Tamm commits to Probiy for another 1 years.
Match12 Aug 2028
A 2‑0 win over Victoriia Sumy, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
16 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
A defender's afternoon for Ruslan Kharuk
Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market14 Aug 2028
Bohdan Dryhan is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Probiy has been clear about where Bohdan Dryhan stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Crisis
Match5 Aug 2028
Chastening afternoon for Probiy
A 0‑3 beating by Nyva was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Luca Boncori is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Tempers go at Probiy
Roman Bilyi 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.
Squad7 Aug 2028
“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 Aug 2028
Mihail Tsenov has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
Doors closed at Probiy
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
Wages eat 100% of everything Probiy earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Player ratings7 Aug 2028
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Probiy needed to.
Market7 Aug 2028
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Daichi Hayashi has his answer from Probiy; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Uneasy
Boardroom24 Jul 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Probiy
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jefferson Buitrago is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Probiy
Roman Bilyi 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.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Jul 2028
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Probiy lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market10 Jul 2028
“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.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Probiy
Roman Bilyi 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.
In brief
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Squad
Mattia Siviero signs a new deal
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Boardroom
Wages eat 106% of everything Probiy earn
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Squad
Words at Probiy training over how hard people work
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Market
Mitch Apau leaves for nothing
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Uneasy
Squad20 Mar 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Tempers go at Probiy
Roman Bilyi 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.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Jean Galindo 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.
Squad20 Mar 2028
The manager makes an example of Andrii Fesenko
“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.
Boardroom20 Mar 2028
121% of the income goes out in wages at Probiy
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Market20 Mar 2028
The name of Jean Galindo keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Probiy say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Match12 Feb 2028
No end in sight to Probiy's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Probiy has to find a result from somewhere.
Match12 Feb 2028
0‑3 to Bukovyna, 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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Probiy know it.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Probiy
Tiaguinho 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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Words at Probiy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mitch Apau 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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Ihor Perduta
“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.
Boardroom14 Feb 2028
Nobody left the Probiy dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
A mark of 5.55 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Marked 5.60. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
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Crisis
Market20 Dec 2027
“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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
A fracture rules Michael Armani out for 44 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Probiy will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad20 Dec 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Probiy know it.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Tiaguinho 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 Probiy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Mitch Apau 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.
Match18 Dec 2027
A bad afternoon for Probiy against Vorskla
0‑1 to Vorskla, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Steady
Market23 Nov 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Probiy may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Probiy
Tiaguinho 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Probiy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrii Bliznichenko 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Guillaume Dequaire, and the manager let it.
Match21 Nov 2026
Inhulets left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Marked 5.28, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
8 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
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Crisis
Market26 Oct 2026
“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 Probiy, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Probiy
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Nazar Havryliuk: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Probiy have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Probiy
Mykola Sikach 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Probiy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrii Bliznichenko 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Daichi Hayashi
“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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
5.54 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.