Hibernian return for Mykola as last summer continues to unwind

Tuesday, 30 July 2024, 20:01
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Yet another one of last summer’s transfer dealings is set to end with a relatively early departure from SA1 with the reports that Mykola Kukharevych is a target for Hibs ahead of the start of the Scottish Premiership season.

Kukharevych was one of thirteen new additions to the squad last summer and, even if the Hibs interest does not turn into anything more concrete, is another one of those that just highlights how bad the business done was by Andy Coleman and Paul Watson in their first transfer window together.

With the exception of Josh Key, Nathan Broome, Josh Ginnelly and Josh Tymon it can easily be said that every one of the transfers inwards we made last summer could easily not be here when the new season starts in just under a week although the futures of Kristian Pedersen and Nathan Tjoe-A-On are still unknown but seemingly unlikely that they have long term futures at Swansea City.

Kukharevych spent an injury-affected loan spell at Hibs in season 2022-23, bagging five goals in just ten starts and caught the eye of now manager David Gray who was part of the coaching set up at the time.

It should not be forgotten as well that the Swans paid decent money to bring Mykola to South Wales which, given the nature of our finances, looks an even more incredibly negligent decision given that he failed to make a single start for the Swans last season and notched just one goal in thirteen substitute appearances in a 3-0 win at Millwall at the end of September.

There were several theories behind his absence from the side but ultimately it comes down to the fact that Luke Williams clearly does not rate a player who he gave just one substitute appearance to – at home to Ipswich in February.

The Edinburgh Evening News reports that Mykola is one of a few strkers under consideration by Hibs ahead of their season opener but given the need for them to move before the season starts and a pretty clear message sent last season that the Swans do not want to retain the striker there would be no surprise if we saw him depart in the next 48 hours.

His departure would leave the Swans even thinner up front then they currently are and, with just over a week until the season starts, it would leave just Liam Cullen to lead the line and adds to the warning signals that we referenced in our piece on Monday.ย  ย The need to bring in at least one new striker is immediate and the faith that anyone places in Coleman and Watson reduces day by day.ย  It is true that the players we have bought in appear, on the face of it, to be good additions but let’s also not lose sight of the fact that many thought we had done good business last summer when the window closed.ย  ย And look how that turned out for us.

The pressure mounts and the silence from the office of the Chairman becomes more conspicuous by its absence every day!

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Ringwood

Alan Waddle

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Good grief.... I see Derby and Hibs benefitting from our limited transfer budget ...๐ŸŽ…

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Pacemaker

Alan Waddle

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He wasnโ€™t played regularly by either Duff, Sheehan or Williams which tells you everything you need to know, on the few occasions i saw him he didnโ€™t seem capable of playing either in this system or at the Championship level.

If he is not going to play then get him off the wages to get someone else in. Last summer part from those highlighted above seems to have cost us money we canโ€™t afford to lose.

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Andrew - North Hill

Alan Waddle

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Yep. One of them might have been wrong; two, there's still a chance they might have both been wrong; but all three reaching the same verdict, no chance they're all wrong. He's a dud.

Great if we can offload him.

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FearOfAJackPlanet

Alan Waddle

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He could well be a dud, but I'd go easy on relying on the opinions of previous coaches for the simple reason that none of them really based that verdict on a rather salient data point:

"Playing football for Swansea City."

As has been pointed out by others, letting 'training kings' and teacher's pets dictate the team leads to Jay Fulton being welded into the midfield for months on end. Myk may be shit, but we never got to find out one way or another in any sense that matters.

His attitude being awful is the only thing that makes sense to me. But I hope if that's true it was genuinely shocking and not just a case of him not being a teachers pet. A lot of great players would not have made this Swansea team if we only played the boy scouts.

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Mel Nurse

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He's played for the reserves, if there was anything in him, the lad would have played in the first team.

It's ok having a bad attitude if you have the skillset for people to turn a blind eye to the so called attitude.

He's not played because he's crap.

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Goldminer

Youth Team Apprentice

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He's Ukrainian isn't he? I wonder how affected he is by the situation there and if that had affected him on the pitch?

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Pacemaker

Alan Waddle

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I have no doubt he is a better player than i will ever be but I regularly watch the U21 side play and he has played on at least one occasion where he, Wood and Pederson played possibly against QPR at home, he looked no better than the regular U21 players and nowhere near the first team.

Just my opinion and he might prove me wrong, maybe he needs to play a different system but he looked well off the skill level required for the Championship.

Sheehan was at that game and watched him closely, he hasnโ€™t played 1st team since.

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Dillwyn the Dog

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Thatโ€™s a very good point - and which should be tempered by the fact that Duff might have felt a twinge of pressure to play the big buy Jerry Yates who didnโ€™t fit this style of play either. With Yates the feeling might have been โ€œhe has to come good some timeโ€ but never really did.
If Mykola was upset about not getting a look in when the main man was struggling then thatโ€™s understandable and it takes an excellent man manager to try to keep an unhappy player inside.
I think he definitely deserved a run of games, especially when out wingers were upgraded. Guess weโ€™ll never know now.

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