The well-known journalist Mykola Neseniuk shared his thoughts on the prospects of the current Dynamo.
Mykola Neseniuk"Will Dynamo be the champion? Of course, it will be. But under certain conditions. The main one is that there is Ukraine! You must admit that when you fall asleep not knowing whether you will wake up tomorrow or whether an enemy missile or its fragments will fall on you at night, the issue of the football championship takes on a slightly different colour. But let's get back to football. Wartime football, which should not be forgotten for a moment. And it is very good that the current Dynamo coach Oleksandr Shovkovskyi mentions this every time. Because you cannot play football as before, pretending that nothing is happening around you.
Even before the start of this championship, I wrote that Dynamo remains the strongest team in Ukraine in terms of the level of play and the level of players, no matter what any "analysts" say. So this team can only lose to itself on the domestic scene. Time has proven this to be the case - all the unsuccessful matches of the first half of the championship were not the result of the advantage of Kyiv's opponents, but rather their own mistakes.
The reasons for these mistakes are also quite obvious: Dynamo's previous coach tried to teach the team to play a style of football that the current players are incapable of playing. Mircea Lucescu demanded the impossible from the players - in order to show the football he wanted, the team had to be almost completely equipped with other players. There was no place to get them and it was not yet known whether it would bring results. As a result, Dynamo tried to play something they didn't know how to play. Hence, a lot of mistakes along with disappointing results.
Today's Dynamo are finally playing the football they can play. And this is not top-class football, with which you can win European Cups. To do this, you need to have two world teams in your squad - that's how European superclubs are currently staffed. Dynamo, in fact, like the rest of the Ukrainian teams, does not have such an opportunity. We can, of course, pack the squad with foreign know-how and "super-promising" Brazilians brought in by cunning agents for big money, and then make Europe laugh.
But it's better to be realistic - our football is what it is. And winning the Ukrainian league is not the same as it was a few decades ago, when Dynamo were preparing for European competitions through Ukrainian league matches, which they never won.
Therefore, to assess Dynamo's prospects, we must first be objective. Finally, we must realise that the days when the entire football team in Ukraine worked for the Kyiv team are gone forever. This was the case for more than six decades - from 1936, when the first USSR championship was held, until the late nineties, when a force appeared in Ukrainian football, the name of whose leader many people, for various reasons, try not to say once again. Since then, Dynamo has had to look for other ways to maintain the highest possible level of performance. There were two ways - to "strengthen" the team with foreigners, spending a lot of money on it, and to develop their own football school, which was also expensive. The team's owners took both paths at the same time, and it is thanks to this that we can hope for success today. It is the Dynamo school that has now become virtually the only source of new players for the team. And it is its pupils who make up almost the entire Dynamo squad today.
Let's face it - the skill level of Dynamo's pupils is far from the highest world level. But it is like that everywhere - the UEFA Youth League games with the participation of Ukrainian teams have shown that the level of the school of European superclubs is not much higher. But these clubs, as we have already mentioned, can be replenished with great players from all over the world, not dibs.
I will say more - as soon as a talent of the level of Andriy Shevchenko or Oleksandr Shovkovsky appears in Dynamo's school, he will not stay in Kyiv for long. That's the way life is nowadays - you shouldn't fly in the sky, but be happy with what you have. And what we have is Dynamo Kyiv, which is a contender for the Ukrainian championship and may well win it. All they have to do is win the remaining league matches. Will you say that this is impossible? And why, exactly?" Nesenyuk wrote on his Facebook page.
