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From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Pribram
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Pribram is running low.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Pribram may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Ebrima Singhateh 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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Words at Pribram training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomáš Svoboda 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.
Match30 Oct 2027
3 matches without a goal for Pribram
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match30 Oct 2027
0‑1 to Sparta Prague B, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Ho Sy Duc
“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.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
Wages swallow 102% of the Pribram income
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.
Loan watch1 Nov 2027
“Three loans in three years. At some point a club has to decide if I am their player or their asset.” The spell at Jablonec continues; the message travels home.
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Market25 Oct 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.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pribram this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Words at Pribram training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomáš Svoboda 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Pribram know it.
Match23 Oct 2027
Pribram come up short against Zlin
Zlin left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
Denis Prendi 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.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
Loan watch25 Oct 2027
“I watch every Pribram game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Zlin runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Squad26 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Pribram
Dantaye Gilbert 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Pribram
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jan Knapík was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“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.
Market26 Apr 2027
The name of Martin Melichar keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Pribram say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Adam Čadek wants out of the dugout
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Pribram will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
Tomáš Jedlička knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Tomáš Jedlička trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.