Marked for Andi Hadroj
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Steady
Market2 Aug 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with Slovan Liberec; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Dynamo Kyiv keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
Teplice asked and Viktoria Plzen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Teplice
Ladislav Takács and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Teplice
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jaroslav Harušťák was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match31 Jul 2027
Bohemians 1905 made Teplice work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Matěj Pulkrab was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.07. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
Michal Bílek gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Teplice are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Teplice, and 5 appearances in 11 say he has earned the hearing.
Match31 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Teplice
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nor Maviram was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Stanislav Holes left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Lukáš Mareček
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Andi Hadroj is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Andi Hadroj has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Teplice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Mareček is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Michal Bílek in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Teplice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Teplice told Daniel Mareček something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Stanislav Holes chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Denis Halinský
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match17 Oct 2026
Point won or two lost for Teplice?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Slavia Prague? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Michal Bílek knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Teplice, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Teplice
Marcel Čermák and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Muhammed Alao arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Muhammed Alao has, at Teplice, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andi Hadroj and Teplice agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match10 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jakub Sykora is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Nathaniel Nwosu
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Teplice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nor Maviram is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Stanislav Holes after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.