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The debts of Poltava’s Vorskla for salaries to footballers, coaches, and club personnel amount to 4-5 months. Additionally, the club also owes to organizations responsible for conducting competitions.

Several players who do not believe they will get their earned money back have already sought assistance from the All-Ukrainian Association of Professional Footballers, among them Ilya Krupskiy and Alexander Sklyar. The preparation of materials for consideration by the Disputes Resolution Chamber of UAF is already at the final stage. It is not ruled out that there are Vorskla players who have directly addressed their issues to UAF.

A transfer ban (the third one already) has been imposed on Vorskla for failing to fulfill contract terms, and the Poltava team is not allowed to register new players. Almost all the previous squad have already left the team.

For this reason, the new head coach of Vorskla, Zhelko Lyubenovich, faced with financial problems, decided to urgently terminate cooperation with the Poltava club.

The new head coach of “Rukh” Ivan Fedyk shared his thoughts on the current level of the Ukrainian championship and talked about his team’s goals for the upcoming season.

“The championship has become more even. Many new ambitious clubs have appeared, inviting good players. During this time, many young Ukrainian players have grown, and this blend is gradually raising the level of the championship, making it interesting and unpredictable. It seems to me that today it is easier for players of any team to play against the giants. The new generation of Ukrainian footballers has a different psychology. They do not care who they play against.

What are Rukh’s goals in the next championship? We will definitely play to win in every match. We will do everything possible to be as high as possible in the table,” - quotes Fedyk "Ukrainian football".

Former striker of the Italian “Roma” Massimo Agostini believes in the potential of the Ukrainian forward of his former team Artem Dovbik.

“Dovbik has proven that he can play excellently for ‘Roma’. He had a season with ups and downs, but overall he left positive impressions.

Dovbik already understands what it means to wear the ‘Roma’ shirt, and I think that in the next season he can truly shine. He is a player who scores important goals. Dovbik is a strong forward, and the attack will be built around him, with such a prominent name as Dybala. A partner for Dovbik will definitely be found,” – quotes Agostini SololaRoma.

The Italian “Milan”, which has recently been negotiating with London’s “Arsenal” for the acquisition of the Ukrainian defender of this team, Oleksandr Zinchenko, has completely abandoned the idea of such a transfer, reports Football Italia.

According to the source, the financial demands of the footballer, whose salary in his current club is 9 million euros per year, have led the negotiations with him into a deadlock, which ultimately forced “Milan” to switch its attention to another candidate.

According to the source, now the “rossoneri” are targeting Archie Brown from the Belgian “Gent”, who also plays as a left-wing defender. The Italian club has been monitoring him for over a year. It is expected that negotiations regarding his transfer will begin in the coming days. However, “Milan” is not the only club interested in the English defender: he has already received several offers.

As for Zinchenko, recently there was information that he will undergo a medical examination at London’s “West Ham”.

Uruguayan forward «Polesje» Facundo Batista has become a player of Colombian «Nacional», and the amount of this transfer was 1.5 million dollars, reported on his telegram channel former journalist Igor Burbas.

The source adds that the sale of the foreign player was forced due to his reluctance to return to Ukraine.

Recall that Batista joined «Polesje» in January of this year, moving from Mexican «Necaxa». The amount of that transfer was 1.75 million euros.

The former midfielder of Ajax Jordan Henderson plans to continue his career at Brentford.

According to BBC Sport, the 35-year-old footballer will join the Bees as a free agent. All official documents will be signed in the coming days.

Henderson will sign a two-year contract with Brentford and is expected to replace the former team captain Christian Nergor, who recently moved to Arsenal.

Right-back PSG Achraf Hakimi spoke about his time at Madrid’s “Real” after a face-to-face clash at the Club World Cup.

“We are more relaxed after the victory. We deserved it, we made incredible efforts. The match was not easy due to the heat. Besides, we played against a team with wonderful players. We did an excellent job.

Why did “Real” allow me to leave? It was their decision. I am happy they allowed me to do what I love: to play and enjoy,” said the Moroccan on DAZN.

“Roma” announced on its official website the signing of a new deal with goalkeeper Mile Svilar.

The new contract for the Serbian goalkeeper with the “wolves” is valid until June 2030.

In the past season, Svilar kept a clean sheet 16 times in all competitions for “Roma”. At the end of the season, Mile was recognized as the best goalkeeper of Serie A 2024/25.

Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis announced the club’s activity in the transfer market. The composition of the Partenopei has already been strengthened this summer by Luca Marianucchi and Kevin De Bruyne.

"Many new players will arrive at "Napoli" soon.

Conte is great, he is the best coach we could have. He is still with us, and we are holding on to him tightly," De Laurentiis is quoted by Calciomercato.

The former head coach of Arsenal, Arsène Wenger, refuted the opinion of the former Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp regarding the Club World Cup. The German specialist called the FIFA tournament taking place in the United States "the worst idea in football."

"Everyone is free to have their opinion, and I completely disagree with Jürgen Klopp’s view. I feel that the Club World Cup is necessary. If you ask all the clubs that were here, 100 percent will say that they would like to do it again. That is the best answer to the question of what clubs think about this tournament."

There is also a crucial question: do fans like it or not? We thought attendance would be low, but in reality, it turned out to be much higher. There you have your answer," Wenger is quoted by Sky Sports.

West Bromwich Albion head coach Ryan Mason summed up today’s friendly match with Kyiv’s Dynamo (1:1).

“I am very pleased with many aspects of today’s game. I believe we played well both with and without the ball after a very tough and intense training week. There were many positive moments. I think we have improved over the last seven days. In today’s match, you could see many results of the work we have done in recent days.

This was a good test because Dynamo has a very, very good team. Both teams had moments when they played well, and overall I am very pleased with the match. We wanted to see today the things we worked on during the week, and we saw them,” Mason’s words are quoted by the official website of West Bromwich.

Former Chelsea defender John Terry shared his thoughts on the current style of football in the English Premier League.

"I don’t like watching football. For example, when teams play against Manchester City, and 11 players are around the ball, it’s boring. City tries to break down the opponent, it’s really boring. You don’t see many shots on goal, you don’t see players like Eden Hazard or Joe Cole who lift people from their seats with their individual play," Terry quoted by talkSPORT.