The Mlada Boleslav Chronicle
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jan Knobloch
30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mlada Boleslav lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 Sep 2026
Martin Králik hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mlada Boleslav can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 3 signed and 4 gone
That is the business done at Mlada Boleslav until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Solomon John was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Mlada Boleslav
Martin Králik and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Door shut on Eldar Šehić
Mlada Boleslav asked and Banik Ostrava said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
One of their own: Christophe Kabongo
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match5 Sep 2026
Mlada Boleslav find a way past Sigma Olomouc
Sigma Olomouc made Mlada Boleslav work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jiří Klíma reaches 50 goals
50 goals for the club, every one of them filed away in the memory of a supporter somewhere.
In brief
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Christophe Kabongo at his very best
- Squad A row about effort at Mlada Boleslav
- The dugout A satisfied Martin Holes