“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 The request is on a desk at Bohemians 1905, and it is not being withdrawn.
Klemen Mihelak and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 May 2029
Words at Bohemians 1905 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Hrubý 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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and David Lischka trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Klemen Mihelak signs something — a contract at Bohemians 1905 or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
In brief
SquadThe training reports on Artem Korneev are not good
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bohemians 1905 can pretend not to have heard.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bohemians 1905 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jan Vondra commits to Bohemians 1905 for another 2 years.
Squad7 May 2029
Words at Bohemians 1905 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Hrubý 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 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 Milan Havel is on 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 Bohemians 1905, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Bohemians 1905 that is a harder question to answer.
Benson Sakala 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.
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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 Roman Horák is on 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 Bohemians 1905, and both men came out saying it was fine.
A call-up flatters the player and the club that produced him in the same breath. Bohemians 1905 would like him back in one piece and know they will not be consulted.
David Tkáč has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 29 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bohemians 1905 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Bohemians 1905, another week without a signature from David Lischka.
Squad12 Mar 2029
Words at Bohemians 1905 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomáš Smejkal 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 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 Milan Havel is on 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 Bohemians 1905, and both men came out saying it was fine.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until David Tkáč signs something — a contract at Bohemians 1905 or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Bohemians 1905 will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Klemen Mihelak 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 paperwork is done long before the player is. Jakub Jeřábek has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Bohemians 1905 have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Tomáš Smejkal 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.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bohemians 1905 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bohemians 1905 can pretend not to have heard.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bohemians 1905 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Benson Sakala 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.
Slovacko will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Tihomir Kostadinov has pre-agreed a move to Bohemians 1905, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ondrej Vydra after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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 Roman Horák is on it.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bohemians 1905 have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bohemians 1905 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Artem Korneev and Bohemians 1905 agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Bohemians 1905 told Emmanuel Uchenna Aririerisim something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Every touch weighed, every quote parsed, every mistake replayed. Some players grow into that; some are quietly finished by it; nobody knows which until afterwards.
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.91, and 2 involvements.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Words at Bohemians 1905 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benson Sakala 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slovacko have kept their man, and Bohemians 1905 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Ladislav Almási 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.
Player ratings3 Jan 2028
Adrian Mazilu was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.38. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
“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 Bohemians 1905, and it is not being withdrawn.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bohemians 1905 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Artem Korneev has, at Bohemians 1905, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words at Bohemians 1905 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benson Sakala 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.
5 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.