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Upbeat
Match28 Nov 2026
Whatever happens, Dynamo Kyiv do not lose
15 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.
Match26 Nov 2026
Dynamo Kyiv do the business in Europe
1‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Dynamo Kyiv came through the finding-out well against Club Brugge.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Pierre Mounguengue, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.91
A mark of 7.91 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 ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Nov 2026
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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Dynamo Kyiv training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mykola Shaparenko 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Dynamo Kyiv make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
The terraces30 Nov 2026
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match28 Nov 2026
Kryvbas made Dynamo Kyiv work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Match21 Nov 2026
Whatever happens, Dynamo Kyiv do not lose
13 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.
Match23 Nov 2026
Dynamo Kyiv are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 36 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
7.91, 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Nazar Voloshyn and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match21 Nov 2026
The run at home goes on for Dynamo Kyiv
8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match21 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Volodymyr Brazhko. 1‑0 against Poltava, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Marked 7.99 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.
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Steady
Match14 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten Dynamo Kyiv
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad16 Nov 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 Dynamo Kyiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mykola Shaparenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match14 Nov 2026
Dynamo Kyiv hit back inside 4 minutes
Karpaty held the lead for 4 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Dynamo Kyiv answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Something was said to Steven Bergwijn and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I watch every Dynamo Kyiv game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Inhulets runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad16 Nov 2026
International break empties Dynamo Kyiv
4 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.
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Upbeat
Match5 Nov 2026
4‑1. Nights like this are why clubs spend decades trying to qualify for this competition, and they arrive perhaps twice in that time. Everybody who was in the ground will describe it badly for years.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The match ball belongs to Steven Bergwijn, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match7 Nov 2026
Whatever happens, Dynamo Kyiv do not lose
11 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Steven Bergwijn was on a different afternoon to everybody else
10.00. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mykola Shaparenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Eduardo Guerrero was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.07. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A season average of 7.27 with 11 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
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Steady
Match31 Oct 2026
Steven Bergwijn had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Zorya were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Match31 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Dynamo Kyiv did not have in the autumn.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Odin Bjørtuft 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 terraces2 Nov 2026
He is 23 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 ratings2 Nov 2026
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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 8.19 — 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.11, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Looking ahead2 Nov 2026
All roads lead to Shakhtar
The fixture the calendar is arranged around. Form goes out of the window, the table is not consulted, and for ninety minutes Dynamo Kyiv will be judged on one thing only.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“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.
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Triumph
Match22 Oct 2026
2‑0 against Akhmat, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Eduardo Guerrero was at the centre of the description.
Squad26 Oct 2026
4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match24 Oct 2026
4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Match26 Oct 2026
Dynamo Kyiv refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 30 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
18 days out for Kyrylo Pashko after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Dynamo Kyiv will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match24 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 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 Dynamo Kyiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
Kyrylo Pashko breaks a bone — 26 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
At 37 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.98, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Odin Bjørtuft and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match17 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Dynamo Kyiv
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mykola Shaparenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I watch every Dynamo Kyiv game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Inhulets runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
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.
Match17 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Upbeat
Match10 Oct 2026
Epicentr 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.12, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Kyrylo Pashko breaks a bone — 35 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 35 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.20 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Dynamo Kyiv can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
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.
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Upbeat
Match1 Oct 2026
A European night to remember for Dynamo Kyiv
2‑1 against Olimpija Ljubljana, 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.12 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Mykola Shaparenko 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“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 Dynamo Kyiv, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Volodymyr Brazhko, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
50 for the club now, each one filed in somebody’s memory with a date and a scoreline. Numbers like this are what supporters argue about in twenty years.
Match3 Oct 2026
Dynamo Kyiv rescue it on 91 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 91. Rukh had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
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Match26 Sep 2026
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Match28 Sep 2026
Dynamo Kyiv refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 22 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
A brace, and Mykola Shaparenko takes the afternoon — 8.13
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mykola Shaparenko provided it, and the 8.13 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Heorhii Bushchan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.02 — 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Inhulets to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dynamo Kyiv and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Steven Bergwijn has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dynamo Kyiv will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
9 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.
Match17 Sep 2026
Dynamo Kyiv come up short in Europe
1‑3 away to the standard of Club Brugge. 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 7.89 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.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Oleksii Rybak has agreed terms with Victoriia Sumy for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad21 Sep 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 Dynamo Kyiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
He is 23 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Matvii Ponomarenko. 1‑0 against Kolos, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Taras Mykhavko and Dynamo Kyiv agree another 4 years.
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Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Illia Olkhovyi had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.95 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 7 signed and 9 gone
That is the business done at Dynamo Kyiv until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market14 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Odin Bjørtuft 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Dynamo Kyiv training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mykola Shaparenko 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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al-Fateh have kept their man, and Dynamo Kyiv go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Odin Bjørtuft 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
$350.0K was the most the club would pay and Metalist 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Dynamo Kyiv and Metalist, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mykola Shaparenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match5 Sep 2026
Dynamo Kyiv are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Eduardo Guerrero was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.35. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Upbeat
Match26 Aug 2026
1‑2 against Probiy, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market31 Aug 2026
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Dynamo Kyiv have paid $7.4M for Odin Bjørtuft, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Matvii Ponomarenko did not need any: 7.65, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.03 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Oleksandr Pikhalionok scored, was marked 7.90, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Market31 Aug 2026
Rukh 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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 targets31 Aug 2026
Dynamo Kyiv offered $350.0K; Metalist 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.
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Triumph
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Dynamo Kyiv and Bodo/Glimt have settled on $7.4M. 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
8 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Nazar Voloshyn takes the afternoon — 8.59
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nazar Voloshyn provided it, and the 8.59 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Vladyslav Kabaiev had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.89 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match22 Aug 2026
4 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market24 Aug 2026
Minsk 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.
Squad24 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 Dynamo Kyiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Triumph
Match15 Aug 2026
Kryvbas will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Dynamo Kyiv were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market17 Aug 2026
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Dynamo Kyiv have paid $11.6M for Steven Bergwijn, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Matvii Ponomarenko takes the afternoon — 8.76
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Matvii Ponomarenko provided it, and the 8.76 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Dynamo Kyiv offered $10.6M; Jablonec 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Dynamo Kyiv asked and Slavia Prague said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Steven Bergwijn would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Steven Bergwijn is living that version at Dynamo Kyiv, and it tends to show in the first month.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.09 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market17 Aug 2026
Ankaragucu 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.
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Triumph
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$11.6M settles it between the clubs for Steven Bergwijn
Al-Ittihad have accepted the money. What Dynamo Kyiv do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Match8 Aug 2026
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 ratings10 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.41 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer from Rukh for Volodymyr Kvikvinia 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 targets10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Oleksandr Pikhalionok and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Vitalii Lobko again, and this time the name on the line is Probiy. Dynamo Kyiv are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Anton Lunyov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Triumph
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The offer went to Al-Ittihad 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Matvii Ponomarenko did not need any: 7.60, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.12, and nobody on the pitch better.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Oleksandr Pikhalionok 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Vitaliy Buialskyi. 4‑2 against Karpaty, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.