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106 Edition

The Zorya Courier

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings7 Aug 2028

A brace, and Volodymyr Brazhko takes the afternoon — 8.16

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Volodymyr Brazhko provided it, and the 8.16 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Transfer targets7 Aug 2028

$1.3M settles it between the clubs for Pierre Mounguengue

Dynamo Kyiv have accepted the money. What Zorya do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market7 Aug 2028

Zorya turn down Dynamo Kyiv for Ivan Kaliuzhnyi

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market7 Aug 2028

Vladlen Yurchenko 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 The request is on a desk at Zorya, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom7 Aug 2028

Zorya go back to the board over Kiril Popov

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $350.0K — a club that wants Kiril Popov enough to be asked twice.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Artem Slesar 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 Zorya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market7 Aug 2028

Epicentr are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Zorya will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Market7 Aug 2028

Bukovyna watching Vasyl Kravets

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Zorya have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Match5 Aug 2028

Volodymyr Brazhko the difference as Zorya beat Obolon

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Volodymyr Brazhko. 2‑0 against Obolon, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Zorya training over how hard people work
  • Squad Ihor Perduta signs on for more
  • The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Artem Slesar's mistake
Back issues
96 Edition

The Zorya Courier

29 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom29 May 2028

Zorya are in Europe

Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.

Squad29 May 2028

A falling-out at Zorya

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

Squad29 May 2028

Ihor Perduta is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Squad29 May 2028

Words at Zorya training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vasyl Kravets 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.

The dugout29 May 2028

Artem Slesar gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Artem Slesar is on it.

Market29 May 2028

The Artem Slesar question follows Zorya around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Artem Slesar’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

30 Edition

The Zorya Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout22 Feb 2027

Anton Hlushchenko says Zorya went back on their word

“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.

Transfer targets22 Feb 2027

Milton Keynes Dons tell Zorya: Samuel Silvera 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.

Market22 Feb 2027

Karpaty come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Zorya did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets22 Feb 2027

Zorya make their move for Danyil Alefirenko

$4.3M on the table at Chornomorets. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market22 Feb 2027

Ihor Perduta asks to leave Zorya

“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.

Market22 Feb 2027

Zorya spend $2.0M to raise the standard

This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $2.0M has been paid because Tymur Stetskov is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.

Squad22 Feb 2027

Berto 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 Zorya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets22 Feb 2027

Zorya baulk at the price for Yevhen Pidlepenets

Bukovyna wanted more than $57.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad22 Feb 2027

Words at Zorya training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jordan 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.

In brief

28 Edition

The Zorya Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets8 Feb 2027

An offer of $2.0M for Ivan Kaliuzhnyi

Zorya have gone to Metalist 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.

The dugout8 Feb 2027

Gabriel Eskinja says Zorya went back on their word

“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.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Oleksandr Saputin stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Oleksandr Saputin and Zorya agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets8 Feb 2027

Zorya rebuffed over Artem Husol

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

Squad8 Feb 2027

Words at Zorya training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jordan 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.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Dejan Popara 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 Zorya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout8 Feb 2027

Oleksandr Romanchuk gets it from the manager

“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.

Player ratings8 Feb 2027

Artem Slesar beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings8 Feb 2027

Jordan stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.29 on the card, and the Zorya support went home talking about one name.

In brief