Marc Filip

Goalkeeper - Vlašim
12 Aug 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Marc Filip

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The Vlašim Chronicle

16 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Only the photograph left for Chigozie Ani

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Chigozie Ani will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Vlašim the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Danylo Chaban 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 Vlašim can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Adam Rezek

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Vlašim

Tomáš Kalas 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.

Boardroom

Belts tighten at Vlašim

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

Market

Ivan Sirotkin attracts admirers

The name of Ivan Sirotkin has come up in conversations Vlašim were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

A row about effort at Vlašim

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Jonáš Topič

Vlašim asked and Sparta Prague said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

The decline has begun for Matěj Hýbl

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 34 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Vlašim is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

In brief

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The Vlašim Chronicle

6 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The small margins put Vlašim out

Out, 1‑3 to Slavia Prague, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Market

Adam Jánoš 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 Vlašim, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

6 saves: Marc Filip was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings

Patrik Sehnal, 21, steals the show — 7.64

Marked 7.64 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market

Niek Corthouts has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

A falling-out at Vlašim

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

Squad

A row about effort at Vlašim

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

Match

Vlašim see off Pribram

Three points for Vlašim, 2‑1 the final word against Pribram in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

One of their own: David Mikulanda

He is 23 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

85 Edition

The Vlašim Chronicle

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Šimon Drozd asks to leave Vlašim

“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.

The dugout

Benoit Olivier keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Chigozie Ani wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Vlašim can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad

A falling-out at Vlašim

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

Squad

Jakub Kolísek 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Daniel Kaštánek

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

Boardroom

94% of the income goes out in wages at Vlašim

Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.

Market

A long bet from Vlašim on Marc Filip

He is 19, and nobody at Vlašim signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market

Talks stall between Vlašim and Tomáš Kalas

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief