Mathias Bang

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Stará Ľubovňa
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95 Edition

The Stará Ľubovňa Courier

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match22 May 2028

Stará Ľubovňa are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 50 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad22 May 2028

Words exchanged at Stará Ľubovňa

Milan Rehuš 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.

Squad22 May 2028

Michael Hönig 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.

Boardroom22 May 2028

Wages swallow 138% 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 May 2028

Ľuboslav Levai 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 Stará Ľubovňa, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout22 May 2028

Peter Znamenák gets it from the manager

“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 dugout22 May 2028

Dominik Šnajder gets picked when it counts

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 Dominik Šnajder is on it.

Market22 May 2028

The Martin Kušnír talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Stará Ľubovňa know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad22 May 2028

Questions about Ivan Rehák on the training pitch

The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.

In brief

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84 Edition

The Stará Ľubovňa Courier

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match6 Mar 2028

Stará Ľubovňa finish in position 3

50 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Match4 Mar 2028

Stará Ľubovňa cannot stop winning

5 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.

The dugout6 Mar 2028

Mathias Bang keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Stará Ľubovňa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Michael Hönig stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Michael Hönig and Stará Ľubovňa agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Words exchanged at Stará Ľubovňa

Filip Blažek 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.

Boardroom6 Mar 2028

Stará Ľubovňa counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Stará Ľubovňa now.

Squad6 Mar 2028

A row about effort at Stará Ľubovňa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michael Hönig was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match4 Mar 2028

Stará Ľubovňa get the job done against MFK Zvolen

A 2‑1 win over MFK Zvolen, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces6 Mar 2028

One of their own: Christopher Argueta

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.

In brief

45 Edition

The Stará Ľubovňa Courier

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Jun 2027

Ľuboslav Levai 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 Stará Ľubovňa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Jacek Pudlik arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Jacek Pudlik has, at Stará Ľubovňa, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Stará Ľubovňa rebuffed over Richard Bartoš

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tatran Liptovský Mikuláš have kept their man, and Stará Ľubovňa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad7 Jun 2027

A row about effort at Stará Ľubovňa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michael Hönig was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout7 Jun 2027

No hiding place for Bozhidar Hristov

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bozhidar Hristov, and the manager let it.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Too much change too quickly at Stará Ľubovňa

7 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.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Stará Ľubovňa ask about Polydefkis Volanakis

A loan enquiry to MFK Michalovce: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

A loan move for Denis Valko is in the works

Stará Ľubovňa have made the call to DAC Dunajska Streda. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market7 Jun 2027

Stará Ľubovňa buy the years ahead of Jacek Pudlik

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief