Ihor Perduta

Right Back - Zorya
19 Feb 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Ihor Perduta

26 Edition

The Zorya Courier

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Only the photograph left for Illia Karavashchenko

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Illia Karavashchenko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zorya the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Zorya against Poltava

0‑1 to Poltava, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

A row about effort at Zorya

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrija Janjić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Roman Vantukh 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.

Boardroom

Inquest at Zorya

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Player ratings

Artem Slesar was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. 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.

The dugout

Anton Hlushchenko is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

The dugout

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 Viktor Shaparenko to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

Back issues
24 Edition

The Zorya Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Vladyslav Rybak hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Zorya can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Reynaldihno Verley: 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.” Zorya have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Oleh Ocheretko 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.

Match

Zorya find a way past Oleksandriya

Oleksandriya made Zorya work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Ihor Perduta is slowing down

At 36, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Juninho

“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.

Squad

A row about effort at Zorya

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vasyl Kravets was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Oleksandr Saputin

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Zorya told Oleksandr Saputin something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Player ratings

Pylyp Budkivskyi was the difference for Zorya

Marked 7.68. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief