Yurii Romenskyi, the goalkeeper of Dynamo Kyiv, Chornomorets Odesa and the USSR national team of the late 70s and early 80s, reacted with sadness to the news of the death of his former teammate Mykhailo Fomenko:
- "Sad, very sad. May he rest in peace, may he rest in peace. Mikhail Fomenko was a very good footballer, coach and responsible person. He is the epitome of a true professional. It is a great pity that his life is over. Sooner or later, each of us will face such a fate, nothing can be done.
Mikhail Ivanovich and I crossed paths when I played at Dynamo, and he, having retired as a player, worked as a coach with the Dynamo double. In 1980, we became the champions of the USSR, and the team he led also won the reserve championship. I remember that in the summer of 1979, Valerii Lobanovskyi was preparing the Ukrainian national team to participate in the USSR Spartakiad, and we had a ten-day training camp in Yalta. At that time, I trained together with many legendary Dynamo players who had won the UEFA Cup and UEFA Super Cup four years earlier. "Although the authors of that triumph, Fomenko and Reshko, left Dynamo, Konkov, Kolotov, Buryak, Blokhin, and Veremeev remained. I played with them in the team.