Marked for Matyáš Šilhavý
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Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.48 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Sampson Dweh 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Viktoria Plzen did not have in the autumn.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Alexandr Sojka pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Denis Vavro 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Slovacko made Viktoria Plzen work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mohamed Touré and Viktoria Plzen agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I watch every Viktoria Plzen game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Aalesund runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Back issues
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Squad12 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Amar Memić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“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 Viktoria Plzen, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Viktoria Plzen can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jan Paluska 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Viktoria Plzen told Baboucarr Faal something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Amar Memić talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Viktoria Plzen know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Pardubice in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jan Paluska has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Viktoria Plzen will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
9 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Market14 Sep 2026
“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.
Market14 Sep 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Up for the corner, and Matěj Valenta delivers — 7.85
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Matěj Valenta scored, was marked 7.85, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Match12 Sep 2026
3 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Viktoria Plzen have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dávid Krčík and Viktoria Plzen agree another 3 years.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Viktoria Plzen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Denis Vavro 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Amar Memić. 2‑1 against Bohemians 1905, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Marek Naskos has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.