The Obolon Courier
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Obolon make their move for Kauã Elias
$4.2M on the table at Shakhtar. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Fee done, terms next for Magomed Kratov
Obolon and Chornomorets have settled on $260.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Obolon
Pavlo Polehenko and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match15 Aug 2026
Obolon see off Zorya
Three points for Obolon, 3‑2 the final word against Zorya in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Obolon supporters have found a favourite in Denys Shostak
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Denys Shostak has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Nazarii Fedorivskyi
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Vitaliy Yermakov 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Oleksiy Lunyov has his say
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Oleksiy Lunyov on a 3‑2 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Squad17 Aug 2026
No place for Enzo in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Obolon are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Obolon and Cipriano Sampaio
- The dugout Yevhen Morozko dropped after a run of poor form
- Market Maksym Hryso told to find a new club