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Uneasy
Market22 May 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Podbrezova can pretend not to have heard.
Squad22 May 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 May 2028
Words at Podbrezova training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rene Rantuša Lampreht 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.
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Crisis
Squad23 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Robbe Quirynen
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Podbrezova lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Samuel Štefánik out for 60 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Podbrezova will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match18 Aug 2027
The small margins put Podbrezova out
Out, 0‑1 to MFK Michalovce, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match21 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Podbrezova's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Podbrezova has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad23 Aug 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 Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match21 Aug 2027
FK Senica left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luka Silagadze, and the manager let it.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
A mark of 5.29 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Upbeat
Market1 Feb 2027
Juan Lescano hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Podbrezova can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Feb 2027
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.
Squad1 Feb 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 Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Podbrezova training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rene Rantuša Lampreht 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.
Squad1 Feb 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Podbrezova will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
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.
Market16 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Podbrezova is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Luka Silagadze 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Robbe Quirynen 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Václav Ondřejka
“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.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match14 Nov 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. AS Trencin defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Radek Šiler story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Radek Šiler signs something — a contract at Podbrezova or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
An afternoon René Paraj will want back
Marked 5.56. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.