Róbert Mazáň 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.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Words at Púchov training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zdeněk Říha 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.
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Púchov, and both men came out saying it was fine.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Samuel Gladiš signs something — a contract at Púchov or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Jozef Dolný 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kevin Dąbrowski was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The words a physio says slowly. 55 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Róbert Mazáň 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.
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.
He is 21 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.
“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 Púchov know it.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Púchov this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words at Púchov training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Lesniak 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.
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Oskar Jelínek has written the date down.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Eliáš Piták signs something — a contract at Púchov or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Iliria Fushë-Krujë can pretend not to have heard.
At 35, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thallyson 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 new man at Iliria Fushë-Krujë has worked with Redi Veriu before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.
Melos Xhixha 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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Iliria Fushë-Krujë, and both men came out saying it was fine.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ange Fofana signs something — a contract at Iliria Fushë-Krujë or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Iliria Fushë-Krujë, and it is not being withdrawn.
“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 Iliria Fushë-Krujë know it.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iliria Fushë-Krujë this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
“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 Iliria Fushë-Krujë will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Iliria Fushë-Krujë lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Iliria Fushë-Krujë can tell you which week it ends in.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vangjel Zguro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
Jefferson Jefferson 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.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Iliria Fushë-Krujë will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Redinel Gjikolaj 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.
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 decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Thallyson and Iliria Fushë-Krujë agree another 1 years.
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Erigels Pusi was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Iliria Fushë-Krujë dressing room was either.