Dmytro Bilonog, a Shakhtar pupil, explained why he did not join Dnipro.
"I should have been at Dnipro immediately after Shakhtar, who had just played the Europa League final. I trained with the first team and had to sign the contract.
However, Shakhtar's management strongly influenced this not to happen. As far as I know, there was some kind of communication between the clubs' managers and "Dnipro" refused to sign me.
Then I even got a phone call from Palkin himself saying: That's it, go back to Shakhtar. But I again refused. That was the end of it," Bilonog said.