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The Karpaty Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match8 Aug 2026

Karpaty tear Kryvbas apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Kryvbas, and it could have been more.

Market10 Aug 2026

Shakhtar come back empty-handed

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

Squad10 Aug 2026

Iván Calero signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Iván Calero and Karpaty agree another 3 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Karpaty

Xeber Alkain 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.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Karpaty rebuffed over Marian Shved

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

The terraces10 Aug 2026

Karpaty supporters have found a favourite in Yaroslav Karabin

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

Market10 Aug 2026

Karpaty promote Ivan Rotan from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ivan Rotan has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market10 Aug 2026

Viktor Burda steps up from the Karpaty academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Viktor Burda 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Anton Lunyov steps up from the Karpaty academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Anton Lunyov 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 Karpaty Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market3 Aug 2026

Paksi join the queue for Yan Kostenko

Add another name to the list: Paksi have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Yan Kostenko. The answer from Karpaty has not changed — yet.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Xeber Alkain stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Xeber Alkain and Karpaty agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Karpaty

Joseph Séry 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Xeber Alkain 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.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Karpaty rebuffed over George Coman

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

Match1 Aug 2026

Karpaty come up short against Dynamo Kyiv

Dynamo Kyiv left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market3 Aug 2026

The clock runs on Xeber Alkain's contract

49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Squad3 Aug 2026

9 new faces, and Karpaty are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Oleksandr Matvienko left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief