The Viktoria Plzen Courier
Market3 Aug 2026
Viktoria Plzen say no — this time
The offer from Akhmat Grozny for Karel Spáčil 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 seasons of Patrik Hrošovský
396 appearances across 8 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Viktoria Plzen know what they have.
Market3 Aug 2026
Prince Adu Kwabena attracts admirers
The name of Prince Adu Kwabena has come up in conversations Viktoria Plzen were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market3 Aug 2026
Sampson Dweh raises the bar for Viktoria Plzen
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Viktoria Plzen heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Matěj Vydra stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Matěj Vydra and Viktoria Plzen agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sampson Dweh in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Viktoria Plzen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
Viktoria Plzen may not be able to give Ricardinho what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Ricardinho wants continental football; whether Viktoria Plzen can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Prince Adu Kwabena
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Viktoria Plzen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Denis Višinský 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Amar Memić stands above it all
- Match Amar Memić rescues a point for Viktoria Plzen
- Player ratings The referee tires of Lukáš Červ