Famous journalist and host Igor Tsyganik spoke about a number of Ukrainian clubs with serious ambitions.
"The biggest money is now being poured into Polissia. They are raising prices for Ukrainian players. Their salaries are 30-40 thousand dollars. Plus, they pay money for them, they buy young players, half of them are from Dnipro-1. Some were not bought, but taken away. Because some club managers did not have time to sign contracts and the children were simply taken away, or maybe they deliberately did not sign them.
It's the same with Karpaty - they invest a lot of money. They were ready to pay a lot of money: about a million dollars for Sarapiy, and the same for Rubchynsky. The owner of the club, Volodymyr Matkivsky, is not public, and I respect that. But he is ready to pay money. He is even ready, as far as I understand, to pay off the debts of the previous Karpaty, if there are such moments. That is, there will be money.
Also, Metalist 1925... They were relegated, they would like to stay, but Nosov is also ready to set big tasks.
But Kryvbas has a different strategy. Karamanets (the club's president) once had a youth football school, and he has the right story to tell. He not only buys, he has his own strategy because he has been in football for a long time.
Nosov, Matkovsky, Butkevich are people who have come to football now and they want quick results. Karamanets is a young guy, he has prospects, he imagines that he will win something there someday, and he is slowly getting there. These guys want it all at once. Just like Kolomoisky (former owner of Dnipro) and Dyminsky (former owner of Karpaty) used to come and want to win everything at once. But football doesn't work like that, you need to build a structure for that," Tsyhanyk said on the Lvivych YouTube channel.