The Slovan Liberec Post
Squad12 Jul 2032
A knee injury of the worst kind for Aleksa Marković
79 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Slovan Liberec lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2032
$3.4M settles it between the clubs for Matyáš Vojta
Sparta Prague have accepted the money. What Slovan Liberec do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
The dugout12 Jul 2032
Andrej Mak says Slovan Liberec went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market12 Jul 2032
Jakub Šiman 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 Slovan Liberec can pretend not to have heard.
Market12 Jul 2032
Slovan Liberec say no — this time
The offer from Pribram for Patryk Palat was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad12 Jul 2032
Tempers go at Slovan Liberec
Matěj Mikulenka 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.
Squad12 Jul 2032
Alan Marinelli 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.
Squad12 Jul 2032
Late improvement for Mihnea Toader
At 25 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
The dugout12 Jul 2032
Matěj Mikulenka gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Matěj Mikulenka is on it.
In brief
- The dugout Nicolas Bajlicz knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The Matěj Mikulenka talk will not go away
- Match Slovan Liberec in the hunt for Europe