17 Aug 2026
Monday
Process
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The Inhulets Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Kristian Svystun gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Kristian Svystun has just signed for Inhulets, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

Inhulets make their move for Matvii Panchenko

$440.0K on the table at Metalist. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Illia Karavashchenko stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Illia Karavashchenko and Inhulets agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

No deal for Wesley Pomba at that price

Inhulets offered $440.0K; Veres 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.

Market

Kristian Svystun comes home

The shirt still fits. Kristian Svystun is back at Inhulets, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Squad

A falling-out at Inhulets

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vitalii Dubilei

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Kostiantyn Bondar steps up from the Inhulets academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kostiantyn Bondar has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Kostiantyn Harmash steps up from the Inhulets academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kostiantyn Harmash has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief

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The Inhulets Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Vitalii Dubilei runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Illia Karavashchenko gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Illia Karavashchenko has just signed for Inhulets, and for once the answer mattered.

Player ratings

Stanislav-Nuri Malysh pops up at the right end — 7.75

7.75, 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.

Squad

Stanislav-Nuri Malysh stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Stanislav-Nuri Malysh and Inhulets agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

Inhulets baulk at the price for Yevhenii Pastukh

LNZ wanted more than $440.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

Words exchanged at Inhulets

Vitalii Dubilei 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.

Market

49 months and counting on Vitalii Dubilei

Still no offer on the table, and Vitalii Dubilei’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Yaroslav Karpizin is in the works

Inhulets have made the call to Metalist. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets

Inhulets ask about Rostyslav Bahlai

A loan enquiry to Shakhtar: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

  • Squad Inhulets are still strangers to each other
  • Match Inhulets and Chernihiv take a point apiece
  • The dugout The view from the dugout