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Process
16 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Paulo Santos: 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.” Dynamo Kyiv have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Pierre Mounguengue at 18 — 7.99

The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Pierre Mounguengue did not need any: 7.99, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Oleksandr Pikhalionok 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 Dynamo Kyiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

Dynamo Kyiv supporters have found a favourite in Pierre Mounguengue

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Pierre Mounguengue 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.

Match

Pierre Mounguengue sends Dynamo Kyiv past Karpaty

It finished 1‑0, and it was Pierre Mounguengue’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Dynamo Kyiv.

Squad

A row about effort at Dynamo Kyiv

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

Loan watch

12 goals on loan for Vladyslav Supriaha

14 appearances at Epicentr and the goals keep coming. Dynamo Kyiv are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Taras Mykhavko

“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.

Loan watch

Artem Somka wants to come home

“I did not go to Metalist to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dynamo Kyiv and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 14 matches say the rest.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Derby day misery for Dynamo Kyiv

Losing 0‑1 is one thing; losing to Shakhtar in a derby is a wound that takes months to close.

Match

A European night to remember for Dynamo Kyiv

2‑1 against Mouscron, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

Match

The cup run ends for Dynamo Kyiv

0‑1 against Prykarpattia, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Match

Mykola Mykhailenko settles it late for Dynamo Kyiv

The 88th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Mykola Mykhailenko decided nobody was going anywhere. Mouscron had no time left to answer.

Player ratings

Shola Ogundana, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.75

A mark of 7.75 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Vintage Andrii Iarmolenko — 7.94

At 37 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.94, and nobody on the pitch better.

Player ratings

Mykola Mykhailenko pops up at the right end — 7.93

7.93, 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 ratings

Nazar Voloshyn runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Dynamo Kyiv

Nazar Voloshyn 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.

In brief

14 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Andrii Iarmolenko: 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.” Dynamo Kyiv have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Matvii Ponomarenko, 20, steals the show — 7.60

Marked 7.60 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Paulo Santos was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 26. 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.

Market

Paulo Santos has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Dynamo Kyiv can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Dynamo Kyiv

Nazar Voloshyn 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Dynamo Kyiv

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

Match

6 unbeaten for Dynamo Kyiv

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Dynamo Kyiv did not have in the autumn.

Looking ahead

The neighbours are next for Dynamo Kyiv

Nothing about the week ahead is ordinary. Shakhtar on Saturday, a town that has already started talking about it, and a dressing room that does not need telling what it means.

Loan watch

Vladyslav Supriaha keeps scoring at Epicentr

12 appearances away from home and 11 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

In brief

13 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Mykola Mykhailenko lights up a European night for Dynamo Kyiv

2‑1 against Mouscron, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Mykola Mykhailenko was at the centre of the description.

Match

Eduardo Guerrero leads the rout of Oleksandriya

3‑0, and Eduardo Guerrero took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Dynamo Kyiv tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Match

Dynamo Kyiv refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 32 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Player ratings

Matvii Ponomarenko, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.10

A mark of 8.10 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Match

Nobody wants to play Dynamo Kyiv right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

A falling-out at Dynamo Kyiv

Paulo Santos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces

Dynamo Kyiv supporters have found a favourite in Nazar Voloshyn

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Nazar Voloshyn 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.

Match

Dynamo Kyiv get the job done against Heerenveen

A 1‑0 win over Heerenveen, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Kostiantyn Vivcharenko 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.

In brief

12 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Home is on Paulo Santos's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Dynamo Kyiv are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Nazar Voloshyn 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 Dynamo Kyiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Dynamo Kyiv

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Andrii Iarmolenko

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Volodymyr Brazhko 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Dynamo Kyiv

7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Player ratings

Vladyslav Dubinchak takes the honours

Marked 7.47 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Dynamo Kyiv had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

When it matters, Heorhii Bushchan 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.

Loan watch

9 goals on loan for Vladyslav Supriaha

10 appearances at Epicentr and the goals keep coming. Dynamo Kyiv are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief

11 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

4 goals for Eduardo Guerrero

The match ball belongs to Eduardo Guerrero, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Match

Dynamo Kyiv run riot against Epicentr

5‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

The dugout

Denys Popov keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dynamo Kyiv may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Pierre Mounguengue, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.96

A mark of 7.96 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Tempers go at Dynamo Kyiv

Paulo Santos 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 ratings

One of those days for Eduardo Guerrero

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 10.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

6 goals as Dynamo Kyiv and Epicentr go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Dynamo Kyiv and Epicentr, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Loan watch

Artem Somka wants to come home

“I did not go to Metalist to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dynamo Kyiv and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.

The terraces

Dynamo Kyiv supporters have found a favourite in Pierre Mounguengue

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Pierre Mounguengue 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.

In brief

10 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

No mercy from Dynamo Kyiv

Mouscron will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Dynamo Kyiv were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Match

Dynamo Kyiv come up short in Europe

0‑1 away to the standard of LOSC Lille. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.

Squad

Heorhii Bushchan keeps Dynamo Kyiv in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Andrii Iarmolenko yet — 7.90

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.90 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Boardroom

Oleksii Rybak has agreed to leave Dynamo Kyiv for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Words exchanged at Dynamo Kyiv

Paulo Santos 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.

Match

Dynamo Kyiv find a way past Rukh

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

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Nazar Voloshyn at his very best

Marked 8.38. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Dynamo Kyiv.

Squad

A row about effort at Dynamo Kyiv

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

In brief

9 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Dynamo Kyiv run riot against Kudrivka

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Paulo Santos scores twice — 8.11

Two goals and a mark of 8.11 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

Dynamo Kyiv are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 22 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Match

8 unbeaten for Dynamo Kyiv

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Dynamo Kyiv did not have in the autumn.

Squad

A falling-out at Dynamo Kyiv

Heorhii Bushchan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Dynamo Kyiv training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Paulo Santos 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 terraces

One of their own: Paulo Santos

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

One of those days for Nazar Voloshyn

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.53, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Taras Mykhavko signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Taras Mykhavko commits to Dynamo Kyiv for another 4 years.

In brief

8 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Dynamo Kyiv announce themselves in Europe

4‑0 against Stjarnan, on a night that will be replayed at this club for a generation. Continental reputations are made in single evenings and this was the evening.

Match

Dynamo Kyiv run riot against Kolos

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Both of them Eduardo Guerrero's — 9.31

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.31, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Vladyslav Kabaiev runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Volodymyr Brazhko goes up and wins it — 7.87

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.87 for the rest of it.

Match

Whatever happens, Dynamo Kyiv do not lose

7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Heorhii Bushchan 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 Dynamo Kyiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Matvii Ponomarenko scored one and made one — 7.33

Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.33, and 2 involvements.

Squad

A row about effort at Dynamo Kyiv

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

In brief

7 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Dynamo Kyiv tear Obolon apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Obolon, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

Pierre Mounguengue, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 8.54

A mark of 8.54 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Vintage Andrii Iarmolenko — 8.26

At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.26, and nobody on the pitch better.

Boardroom

Dynamo Kyiv close the window on a squad of their own making

8 in and 8 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Wesley Pomba

Dynamo Kyiv asked and Veres said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Tempers go at Dynamo Kyiv

Nazar Voloshyn 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.

Squad

Kostiantyn Vivcharenko signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kostiantyn Vivcharenko and Dynamo Kyiv agree another 3 years.

The terraces

Dynamo Kyiv supporters have found a favourite in Pierre Mounguengue

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Pierre Mounguengue 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Eduardo Guerrero

Marked 8.56 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

6 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

7 saves: Ruslan Neshcheret was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Dynamo Kyiv say no — this time

The offer from Plymouth Argyle for Shola Ogundana 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.

Market

Paulo Santos has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Dynamo Kyiv can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Dynamo Kyiv

Heorhii Bushchan 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Dynamo Kyiv

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

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Oleksandr Tymchyk

Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Match

Dynamo Kyiv get the job done against Metalist

A 1‑0 win over Metalist, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Kostiantyn Vivcharenko

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

The dugout

Volodymyr Brazhko 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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A day Shola Ogundana will not forget

4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Match

Cup progress for Dynamo Kyiv

A 5‑0 win over Probiy, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad

Ruslan Neshcheret stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Shola Ogundana at 21 — 8.21

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Shola Ogundana did not need any: 8.21, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Luzern come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Dynamo Kyiv did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Bohdan Redushko attracts admirers

The name of Bohdan Redushko has come up in conversations Dynamo Kyiv were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

A falling-out at Dynamo Kyiv

Heorhii Bushchan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Dynamo Kyiv walk away from Eduard Sarapii

$390.0K was the most the club would pay and Polissia were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Market

Dynamo Kyiv sell Viacheslav Surkis for $270.0K

Viacheslav Surkis has left for Chornomorets in a $270.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

In brief

4 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Bohdan Redushko says no to Napredak

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Bohdan Redushko had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Transfer targets

Dynamo Kyiv rebuffed over Igoh Ogbu

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slavia Prague have kept their man, and Dynamo Kyiv go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Player ratings

Bohdan Redushko was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. 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.

Player ratings

Matvii Ponomarenko, 20, steals the show — 7.72

Marked 7.72 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market

As if he never left: Yevhenii Pastukh returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Yevhenii Pastukh is a Dynamo Kyiv player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Market

Dynamo Kyiv turn down Plymouth Argyle for Vladyslav Kabaiev

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

No deal for Eriki at that price

Dynamo Kyiv offered $580.0K; Karpaty said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

Heorhii Bushchan 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 Dynamo Kyiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Dynamo Kyiv sell Kyrylo Osypenko for $430.0K

Kyrylo Osypenko has left for Metalist in a $430.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

In brief

3 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Transfer targets

Dynamo Kyiv rebuffed over Mao Hosoya

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Kashiwa Reysol have kept their man, and Dynamo Kyiv go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Pierre Mounguengue at 18 — 7.98

The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Pierre Mounguengue did not need any: 7.98, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

A long bet from Dynamo Kyiv on Paulo Santos

He is 20, and nobody at Dynamo Kyiv signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market

Dynamo Kyiv say no — this time

The offer from Minsk for Illia Olkhovyi 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.

Transfer targets

Dynamo Kyiv bid $580.0K for Eriki

The offer went to Karpaty this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Match

Dynamo Kyiv cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Tempers go at Dynamo Kyiv

Heorhii Bushchan 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.

The terraces

$14.3M for Paulo Santos, and Dynamo Kyiv supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Paulo Santos from Astra for $14.3M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Squad

A row about effort at Dynamo Kyiv

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

In brief

2 Edition

The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Paulo Santos

Dynamo Kyiv and Astra have settled on $14.3M. 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.

Match

Volodymyr Brazhko leads the rout of Poltava

6‑0, and Volodymyr Brazhko took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Dynamo Kyiv tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Matvii Ponomarenko scores twice — 8.94

Two goals and a mark of 8.94 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Both of them Volodymyr Brazhko's — 8.02

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.02, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Pierre Mounguengue, 18, steals the show — 7.64

Marked 7.64 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Transfer targets

Dynamo Kyiv bid $1.4M for Yevhenii Pastukh

The offer went to LNZ this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market

Dynamo Kyiv say no — this time

The offer from Zorya for Aliou Thiaré 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Peter Itodo

Dynamo Kyiv asked and Metalist said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Oleksandr Pikhalionok signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Oleksandr Pikhalionok and Dynamo Kyiv agree another 4 years.

In brief

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The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Nazar Voloshyn was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 37. 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.

Match

Dynamo Kyiv run riot against Karpaty

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Market

Zorya come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Dynamo Kyiv did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

A day Vitaliy Buialskyi will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Market

Business is business: Mykola Shaparenko goes

Spartak Moscow paid $10.0M and Dynamo Kyiv took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Vitaliy Buialskyi: 14 seasons and counting

261 appearances across 14 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Dynamo Kyiv know exactly what they have.

The terraces

A $10.0M sale, and a town that did not want it

Mykola Shaparenko has gone, the accounts have $10.0M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Player ratings

Vintage Vitaliy Buialskyi — 8.12

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.12, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market

Oleksandr Pikhalionok wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Dynamo Kyiv hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

In brief