The Livyi Bereh Sentinel
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Matvii Panchenko
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Livyi Bereh have done the hard part with Metalist, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Danylo Ishchenko turns down Livyi Bereh
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Dynamo Kyiv keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Livyi Bereh
Illia Kvasnytsia 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Liubomyr Kuzyk gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Liubomyr Kuzyk has just signed for Livyi Bereh, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Valeriy Bondarenko 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Livyi Bereh come up short against Chornomorets
Chornomorets left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
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 Eduard Yaremchuk to a room that had heard them before.
Market17 Aug 2026
Livyi Bereh buy the years ahead of Liubomyr Kuzyk
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Liubomyr Kuzyk stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Liubomyr Kuzyk and Livyi Bereh agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- Looking ahead Oleh Sokolov faces his old club
- Player ratings Illia Kvasnytsia leaves them behind him
- The dugout Valerii Samar left out for tactical reasons at Livyi Bereh