The Vlašim Chronicle
Market16 Jul 2029
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.
Market16 Jul 2029
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 targets16 Jul 2029
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.
Squad16 Jul 2029
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.
Boardroom16 Jul 2029
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.
Market16 Jul 2029
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.
Squad16 Jul 2029
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 targets16 Jul 2029
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.
Squad16 Jul 2029
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
- Squad Marc Filip signs on for more
- The dugout Jakub Dufek has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout David Mikulanda knocks on the manager’s door