Marked for Timotej Cagáň
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Loan watch22 Mar 2027
25 appearances away from home and 59 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Samuel Greško is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad22 Mar 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 Stará Ľubovňa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Adrián Slávik was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
Wages swallow 164% of the Stará Ľubovňa 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.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adrián Mojžiš, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Squad28 Dec 2026
Adrián Mojžiš and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Dec 2026
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Stará Ľubovňa can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Stará Ľubovňa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Richard Pečarka 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
164% of the income goes out in wages at Stará Ľubovňa
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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
0‑1 to Slávia TU Košice, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Stefan Pekarik to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
Adrián Slančík 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dávid Bordáč was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Abdul Fofana
“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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Iverson Negouai dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad28 Sep 2026
No place for Timotej Cagáň in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Stará Ľubovňa are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Squad28 Sep 2026
One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and Stará Ľubovňa will feel it on Saturday.
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Uneasy
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marek Václav beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Adrián Mojžiš 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.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Stará Ľubovňa asked and MFK Skalica said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Dávid Bordáč 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.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Lukáš Jendrek has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win, and then this, against Zlate Moravce. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Match19 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Juraj Piroska’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Stará Ľubovňa.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Timotej Cagáň commits to Stará Ľubovňa for another 3 years.