Ibrahim Faik

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The Opava Chronicle

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match15 May 2028

Opava up to position 2

62 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market15 May 2028

Matěj Helešic asks to leave Opava

“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.

Squad15 May 2028

Home is on André Leipold's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Opava are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad15 May 2028

Jaromír Srubek 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 Opava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad15 May 2028

Matěj Hadaš 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.

Squad15 May 2028

Opava are still strangers to each other

9 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout15 May 2028

Matěj Helešic asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market15 May 2028

The shop window has Amar Memić in it

Opava have let the market know Amar Memić can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Boardroom15 May 2028

Opava board back the manager

A public word of support from the board and, more usefully, an understanding about what the next window will look like.

In brief

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The Opava Chronicle

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout17 Apr 2028

Tomáš Digaňa: 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.” Opava have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match17 Apr 2028

Opava are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 62 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad17 Apr 2028

A move Martin Jankto 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. Martin Jankto is living that version at Opava, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Jaromír Srubek 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 Opava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Words at Opava training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matěj Hadaš 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.

Squad17 Apr 2028

11 new faces, and Opava are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Market17 Apr 2028

A long bet from Opava on Haris Toholin

He is 20, and nobody at Opava signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market17 Apr 2028

Opava buy the years ahead of Ibrahim Faik

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market17 Apr 2028

Opava sign Martin Jankto, one for the future

Martin Jankto is 15, and Opava have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief