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Triumph
Match16 Oct 2027
FK Senica cannot stop winning
6 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad18 Oct 2027
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market18 Oct 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FK Senica can pretend not to have heard.
Match16 Oct 2027
A 2-1 win over MSK Zilina, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Jakub Holes is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.25 with 5 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad18 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Maximilián Halo
“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.
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Steady
Squad20 Sep 2027
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market20 Sep 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FK Senica can pretend not to have heard.
Match18 Sep 2027
A 2-0 win over MFK Michalovce, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad20 Sep 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Erik Hrosovsky knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FK Senica, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market20 Sep 2027
The Matej Oravec talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FK Senica know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Match4 Sep 2027
No end in sight to FK Senica's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at FK Senica has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad6 Sep 2027
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Loan watch6 Sep 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at FK Senica, and 1 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Match4 Sep 2027
2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“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.
Market6 Sep 2027
The Marek Kucka talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FK Senica know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at FK Senica that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FK Senica, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market6 Sep 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Muhammad Makbashi may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Uneasy
Match21 Aug 2027
Podbrezova ended it 2-2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match21 Aug 2027
No end in sight to FK Senica's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at FK Senica has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FK Senica have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad23 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Matej Oravec
“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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Ergis Arifi is 20, and FK Senica have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Cody David finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. FK Senica have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Uneasy
Market16 Aug 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.
Match14 Aug 2027
4 matches without a win for FK Senica
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around FK Senica are no longer polite ones.
Match14 Aug 2027
A 1-1 draw with DAC Dunajska Streda leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad16 Aug 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FK Senica, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market16 Aug 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FK Senica know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Matej Oravec unhappy with how he is being used
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Matej Oravec has let it be known that he does not like the way FK Senica are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
Market16 Aug 2027
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Filip Nemec moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
Market16 Aug 2027
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Andrej Sestak leaves FK Senica the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Steady
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at FK Senica, and 5 appearances in 21 say he has earned the hearing.
Market8 Feb 2027
The name of Samuel Hamsik keeps appearing in other people's back pages. FK Senica say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad8 Feb 2027
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Miroslav Skriniar keeps the shirt for now, at FK Senica's convenience rather than his own.
Market8 Feb 2027
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Muhammad Makbashi arrives at FK Senica with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
Market8 Feb 2027
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Robert Duda moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
Market8 Feb 2027
The window shut and Kristian Skriniar is still in the building
FK Senica spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.