Jacob Neptune

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The Mlada Boleslav Chronicle

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom7 Feb 2028

Mlada Boleslav spell it out for Tomas Holes

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Tomas Holes has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Market7 Feb 2028

Mlada Boleslav say no — this time

The offer from Polissia for Matouš Krulich 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.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Ondřej Karafiát 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 Mlada Boleslav this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Feb 2028

A move José Franco would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. José Franco is living that version at Mlada Boleslav, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Roman Macek 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.

Match5 Feb 2028

A bad afternoon for Mlada Boleslav against Sparta Prague

0‑1 to Sparta Prague, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Albert Kotlín 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.

Loan watch7 Feb 2028

Jan Buryán counts the days

“I watch every Mlada Boleslav game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Slovan Liberec runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Market7 Feb 2028

Mlada Boleslav buy the years ahead of Jack Belton

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.

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The Reading Chronicle

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad16 Aug 2027

Peter Bailey damages knee ligaments — 27 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom16 Aug 2027

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Reading

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market16 Aug 2027

Guilherme Batista 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 Reading can pretend not to have heard.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Real improvement from Enso González at Reading

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Enso González is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Andy Rinomhota has improved at 30, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Words at Reading training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christos Tzolis 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.

Player ratings16 Aug 2027

Nobody could get near Daniel Kyerewaa

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings16 Aug 2027

The afternoon belonged to Andy Rinomhota

A mark of 7.41, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Match14 Aug 2027

Reading draw a blank against Charlton Athletic

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Charlton Athletic defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief