Marked for Ivan Kohut
From our football correspondent
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Squad21 Jun 2027
Oleh Pushkariov damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market21 Jun 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Chornomorets people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market21 Jun 2027
The offer from Dynamo Kyiv for Artur Avahimian 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.
Market21 Jun 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Chornomorets they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
The deal with Central Espanol is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Viacheslav Surkis is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Market21 Jun 2027
Add another name to the list: Huachipato have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Viacheslav Surkis. The answer from Chornomorets has not changed — yet.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Words at Chornomorets training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Danyil Alefirenko 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Oleksandr Kapliienko 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.
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Market24 May 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Chornomorets is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad24 May 2027
Danyil Alefirenko 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.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at Chornomorets training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oleksandr Kapliienko 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 dugout24 May 2027
“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.
Loan watch24 May 2027
28 appearances away from home and 7 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
The dugout24 May 2027
When it matters, Ivan Kohut plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout24 May 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The dugout24 May 2027
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad24 May 2027
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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Squad26 Apr 2027
29 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Chornomorets lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Dmytro Kliots out for 31 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Chornomorets will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market26 Apr 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Oleksandr Pshenychniuk will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Chornomorets the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Marian Faryna 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words at Chornomorets training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Danyil Alefirenko 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.
Loan watch26 Apr 2027
“I watch every Chornomorets game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at LNZ runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“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.
Loan watch26 Apr 2027
28 appearances at Podillia and the goals keep coming. Chornomorets are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
When it matters, Ivan Kohut plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Squad29 Mar 2027
61 days out for Dmytro Kliots after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Chornomorets will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market29 Mar 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Oleksandr Pshenychniuk will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Chornomorets the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Danyil Alefirenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Oleksandr Kapliienko 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.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Chornomorets, and 2 appearances in 7 say he has earned the hearing.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
7 goals in 28 games at Podillia — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Chornomorets updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.