Kharkiv Metalist has been officially relegated to the First League. The club's financial problems were the main factor behind the relegation. I think that the club deliberately went down to the relegation to cut costs. There will be no need to keep the U-19 team, and they will let go of the first team. They will play with youngsters and wait for the situation to improve.
Daniil KaidalovThis is not the first time Metalist has faced such problems. The issue is that this is a very good opportunity to take advantage of the club's problems and sign players from there. The Kharkiv team had a very strong year of birth in 2006. I understand that this year was specially selected for Yevhen Krasnikov's son Yegor.
In 2015, clubs actively took advantage of Metalist's problems. The biggest talents, Andriy Lunin and Mykhailo Mudryk (who had already joined Shakhtar), left for Dnipro, along with Myron Markevich and Yevhen Krasnikov. "Shakhtar generally "grazed" in Kharkiv for a long time after Metalist's disappearance. There were plenty of Kharkiv players in the youth teams. Georgii Sudakov, for example, was a pupil of Metalist. Bohdan Budko, who is in AZ, and Danylo Krevsun from Borussia Dortmund are also related to Kharkiv, but were in the Pitmen's system. I can go on for a long time. "Dynamo also picked up a number of players - Oleksandr Andrievskyi. Oleksandr Azatskyi, Vladyslav Alekseev, Danylo Khondak.
The bottom line is that if Dynamo doesn't take advantage of Metalist's problems now, someone else will. If you rely on your own youngsters, you don't have to give up signing talented players. Despite the fact that Dynamo had a very strong year in 2006.
I think we can pay attention to at least two players. Both of them have already played for Metalist's first team:
17-year-old Danilo Kaidalov. He came on as a substitute in two matches in the UPL. However, it was symbolic. He plays as a wing midfielder. More on the left. Dynamo has Vladyslav Kalyn and Kyrylo Pashko at this age, but competition will not hurt anyone. Kaidalov is very interesting. He has good speed and ball skills. During the elite round in Cyprus of the Ukrainian national team, he even played on the defensive flank.
Kirill Digtyar, 15, played for Metalist's first team at a training camp before the war. He is the player of the year 2007, but he was also invited by Yuriy Moroz in 2006. He can play on the left flank of the defence or in the centre of defence. He is fast, physically fit and works well with the ball. Perhaps he is somewhat similar to young Vitaliy Mykolenko. In 2006, Dynamo had its own talents in the centre of defence - Vladyslav Zakharchenko and Maksym Korobov. Denys Dykyi is on the left flank. But competition and depth have never hurt anyone.
Perhaps we could also pay attention to 16-year-old centre-half Gennadiy Synchuk, who made an assist in the match against Minai. He is a kind of "krypysh" in the middle of the pitch, who will not give anything to anyone for nothing.
Serhii Tyshchenko
