Marked for Maksym Hryso
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market22 Feb 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Obolon, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Obolon
Marian Shved 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.
Market22 Feb 2027
Nazarii Fedorivskyi has left for Zorya in a $250.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Obolon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pavlo Polehenko 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 ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match20 Feb 2027
Obolon get the job done against Kolos
A 1‑0 win over Kolos, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market22 Feb 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Obolon signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad22 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maksym Hryso, and the manager let it.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Defensive actions: 13, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market11 Jan 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
7 matches without a win for Obolon
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Obolon are no longer polite ones.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Obolon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Obolon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marian Shved 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Obolon
Ihor Medynskyi 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.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
A mark of 7.93, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Loan watch11 Jan 2027
“I watch every Obolon game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Vorskla runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The team sheet said everything about Serhii Sukhanov
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Serhii Sukhanov.
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Crisis
Squad2 Nov 2026
A one-man rearguard from Oleh Kudryk
There were 11 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market2 Nov 2026
Maksym Chekh 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 Obolon can pretend not to have heard.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Maksym Hryso: 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.” Obolon have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Obolon
Marian Shved 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Maksym Tretiakov 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Obolon against Metalist
0‑1 to Metalist, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Uneasy
Match26 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Obolon
0‑0 against Poltava, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match29 Aug 2026
Artem Kulakovskyi wins it after the whistle should have gone
91 minutes played. Artem Kulakovskyi found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Kryvbas went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Denys Marchenko: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
7.27, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Obolon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maksym Tretiakov 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Artem Kulakovskyi. 2‑1 against Kryvbas, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Obolon
Dmytro Semenov 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market10 Aug 2026
Obolon say no — this time
The offer from Kudrivka for Denys Marchenko 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Roman Volokhatyi and Obolon agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 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 Obolon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“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.
Match8 Aug 2026
LNZ take the points off Obolon
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.