A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Stará Ľubovňa have done the hard part with AS Trencin, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Stará Ľubovňa have made the call to DAC Dunajska Streda. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Stará Ľubovňa, and both men came out saying it was fine.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Adrián Slančík signs something — a contract at Stará Ľubovňa or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Stará Ľubovňa will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Dudu was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stará Ľubovňa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Stará Ľubovňa, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 37 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Stará Ľubovňa is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Anton Sloboda falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
“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; Stará Ľubovňa are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Marked 6.63 on 13 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Stará Ľubovňa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anton Sloboda 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.
3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
Stará Ľubovňa had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at MSK Zilina, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Stará Ľubovňa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ľuboslav Levai 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.
Branko Pinďura was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.