A lot can be said about Dynamo's love for signing players who are in the status of free agents.
Andriy ShevchenkoWe will focus on the ten players who had the highest value in the transfer market. How many of these players managed to establish themselves in Dynamo? Who did not benefit? So, who did the white and blue invite for free?
Andriy Shevchenko
Moved to "Dynamo" from "Chelsea"
Market value at the time of the transfer: 10 million euros
Date of transfer: 29 August 2009
Age at the time: 32 years old
Sheva returned to Dynamo already in the status of a living legend, a man who won the Ballon d'Or and was a symbol of Ancelotti's Milan. After returning to Kyiv, Shevchenko, together with his native club, was never able to become the national champion, but that period was bright for all Ukrainian football, and even more so for Dynamo fans. The final chord was the game with Sweden at the Olimpiyskyi and his double after passes from Yarmolenko and Konoplyanka. Then a not very good story with Fomenko's entry into the headquarters. And everyone remembers what happened next. Selection for the 2018 World Cup. First place in the qualification for the Euro. Beating of Serbs in Lviv. Beating the Portuguese in Kyiv. Quarterfinals of the European Championship 2020. Now Andriy Mykolayovych is an ambassador of the United24 platform, which helps restore Ukraine after the invasion of Russian invaders.
Oleksandr Hladkyi
Moved to Dynamo from Shakhtar
Market value: 3.5 million euros
Date of transfer: 1 July 2016
Age at the time: 28 years old
The transfer is formally scandalous, but it was received completely calmly in the community. Hladky played 11 matches (449 minutes) in Dynamo and did not stand out with his productive actions. Already a year later, the attacker left Kyiv in the same status as when he arrived. Although the contract with the white-blue team was previously signed for 3 years, the striker himself spent half a year on loan from Lviv Karpaty. Later, there was a period in the Turkish championship, and from the 2020/2021 season Oleksandr plays in Luhansk "Zora" and can break the performance records that Seleznev dreams of.
Radosav Petrovych
Moved to "Dynamo" from "Henchlerbirligi"
Market value: 3.2 million euros
Date of transfer: 1 July 2015
Age at the time: 26 years old
Came quietly, left quietly. A total of 12 matches (1013 minutes), 1 goal and 1 yellow card. A year later, the Serbian is already moving to Sporting Lisbon for 1 million euros. A rare case when "Dynamo" made money on a player who did not suit them and remained in full advantage. Petrovic now plays in Segunda for Real Zaragoza.
Carlos Zambrano
Moved to Dynamo from Rubin
Market value: €3 million
Date of transfer: 30 January 2018
Age at the time: 28 years old
And here is an example of how to make money from unnecessary players, but with a big headache and delay. Khatskevich was not interested in this player, but he agreed to take him for a year and take a closer look. The president of Dynamo, in turn, insisted on a long-term contract with the Peruvian. As a result, 0 matches for the main team of Kyiv and after 2 years + 1.5 million euros for the transfer of Zambrano to Boca Juniors.
Sergey Kravchenko
Moved to "Dynamo" from "Vorskla"
Market value: 2.9 million euros
Date of transfer: 1 January 2009
Age at the time: 25 years old
Shakhtar's protege, who did not go to Dynamo. He spent only one year in the Kyiv team, during which he played 875 minutes in 16 matches, scoring 2 goals and providing 1 assist. A year later, Kravchenko found himself in a friendly against the white and blue "Dnipro" (transfer amount of 700 thousand euros), where he became a legend of the club. At the age of 39, Serhiy continues his playing career in the Chornomorets Odesa team.
Junior Moraes
Moved to "Dynamo" from "Metalurg" Donetsk
Market value: 2.5 million euros
Date of transfer: 1 July 2015
Age at the time: 28 years old
Moraes came to the Rebrov team as a star of the local championship. "Metalurg" fell apart and the player moved to a team at the level of the Champions League. In the first UPL season, Junior scored 7 goals in 20 matches, in the following 10 goals in 16 matches. Then the player chose an option with an expensive loan to the Chinese Championship and disappeared from the radar for a year. This trip could have cost him his Ukrainian passport, but it was worth it. After returning, Moraes scored another 13 goals in all competitions for Dynamo. And you all remember perfectly well what happened next... Now the Brazilian-Ukrainian plays for Corinthians and even scored 1 goal in the Brazil Cup.
Valery Fedorchuk
Moved to "Dynamo" from "Dnipro"
Market value: 1.8 million euros
Date of transfer: 4 February 2016
Age at the time: 27 years old
Valery spent 1 season in Dynamo and participated in 11 matches (376 minutes), scoring 1 goal. Injuries and a high level of competition in the center of the field prevented him from fully realizing himself in Kyiv. Already in 2017, Fedorchuk moved to Rivne "Veres" as a free agent. Then there was Riga and Mariupol. Since August 2020, Fedorchuk has been a player of Lviv "Rukh", in which he has already played 37 matches, scored 5 goals and provided an assist.
Mykola Morozyuk
Moved to Dynamo from Metalurg D
Market value: 1.8 million euros
Date of transfer: 1 July 2015
Age at the time: 27 years old
Morozyuk made the most of his return to Dynamo. At the UPL level, Mykola was a pretty good player, but few expected that he would be able to grow in Kyiv to the level of team captain and player of the Ukrainian national team. A total of 116 matches for Dynamo Morozyuk in all tournaments (more only for Metalurg — 139), 24 assists, 9 goals and 6 trophies. Morozyuk is currently a player of Chornomorets Odesa, which he joined after a two-year journey to the Turkish championship.
Sergey Rebrov
Moved to Dynamo from West Ham
Market value: 1.5 million euros
Date of transfer: 1 July 2005
Age at the time: 30 years
Like Shevchenko, Rebrov returned to Dynamo in the status of a living legend of the club. The Kyiv star will have an excellent first season and will become the most productive player of the Ukrainian championship. He is recognized as the best player of the championship, but already in the next season, the level of play, as well as confidence in the player, will fall. It got to the point that in the 07/08 season he intended to leave Dynamo and move to the capital Arsenal, but in the end he ended up in Kazan Rubin. Serhiy Stanislavovych is currently coaching Saudi Al-Ain, where Andriy Yarmolenko plays, and is waiting for the position of head coach of the national team of Ukraine to become vacant.
Artem Gromov
Moved to "Dynamo" from "Vorskla"
Market value: 1.5 million euros
Date of transfer: 1 July 2016
Age at the time: 26 years old
The Vorskla star was called upon to become a player who would be able to cover the problematic position of the left winger for a long time, where at that time, whoever was not suffering (tried to play). But... He did not pull, as he himself admitted in the interview. A total of 12 matches for Dynamo and 3 assists. After the scandalous transfer to Kryliev Sovetov, because of which he was later not taken to Lviv Karpaty. And from 2017, the player will settle in Luhansk "Zora" until the summer of 2022. It was on July 29 that Gromov changed his club registration and will now defend the colors of Dnipro-1.
Vladyslav Omelchenko
