Oliver Mikuda

Central Midfielder - Slovacko
14 Aug 2030
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Oliver Mikuda

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The Slovacko Sentinel

29 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Michael Krmenčík agrees terms with Banik Ostrava

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Slovacko people have started saying his name in the past tense.

The dugout

Panagiotis Liagas: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Slovacko have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

The dugout

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Market

Oliver Mikuda puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Slovacko, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Jakub Hastík has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slovacko they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on David Moses

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Slovacko have done the hard part with Slavia Prague, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Match

4 matches without a win for Slovacko

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Slovacko are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Words exchanged at Slovacko

Marek Havlík 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.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Slovacko

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

In brief

Back issues
199 Edition

The Slovacko Sentinel

20 May 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Jakub Snopek 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 Slovacko can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A falling-out at Slovacko

Merchas Doski and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Nikolas Brandis 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.

Squad

Slovacko count the cost of losing Pavel Sykora

39 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout

Jakub Surovčík 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 Jakub Surovčík is on it.

The dugout

Paul Ndubuisi 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 Slovacko, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

129 Edition

The Mirandés Post

15 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Mamadou Tounkara out for 88 days

88 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Mirandés lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout

Igor Nikić says Mirandés went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Igor Nikić

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.

Market

Mirandés say no — this time

The offer from Alavés for Marcelo Olivera 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.

Market

Oliver Mikuda 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 Mirandés can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Mirandés

Adrián De la Fuente 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.

Market

Mirandés sell Jesús Ruiz for $350.0K

Jesús Ruiz has left for Real Sociedad in a $350.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

A row about effort at Mirandés

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

Match

Ezequiel Ávila the difference as Mirandés beat Cádiz

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ezequiel Ávila. 3‑1 against Cádiz, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief