The Podillia Courier
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Anton Savin was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 35. 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Anton Savin signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Anton Savin commits to Podillia for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Anton Savin 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 Podillia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Vadym Shavrin 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Podillia and Ruslan Chernenko
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Podillia ask about Yaroslav Protsenko
A loan enquiry to Metalist: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Podillia are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Viktor Harmash chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Match1 Aug 2026
No goals between Podillia and Victoriia Sumy
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Victoriia Sumy will be the happier side with the point.
In brief
- The dugout Davronbek Azizov asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Vladyslav Shkinder
- Market Nobody at Podillia has picked up the phone to Roman Bodnia