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Steady
Squad9 Aug 2027
Marko Lekić : 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.” Dukla Prague have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad9 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Chinonso Emeka
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Loan watch9 Aug 2027
“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 Dukla Prague , and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Marko Lekić Marko Lekić: that is not what I was promised
Market9 Aug 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Dukla Prague will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Match7 Aug 2027
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market9 Aug 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” David Valencia has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Dukla Prague .
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Uneasy
Market5 Jul 2027
“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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gabriel Zlatanov commits to Botev Plovdiv for another 2 years.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Tales out for 26 daysThe medical room confirms 26 days on the sidelines for Tales , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Nikola Iliev 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Botev Plovdiv know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Market28 Jun 2027
“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.
Market28 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad28 Jun 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jan Bačkovský commits to Dukla Prague for another 3 years.
Squad28 Jun 2027
“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.
Market28 Jun 2027
The Jakub Kadák talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dukla Prague know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Loan watch28 Jun 2027
20 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Jun 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tidjane Traoré and Dukla Prague agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market21 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Dukla Prague have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“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.
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Steady
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
“I did not go to Rudes to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dukla Prague and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Mário Lúcio
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market15 Feb 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dukla Prague know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Samson Tijani 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.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
7 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Market15 Feb 2027
Dukla Prague have made Abdalla Zaal available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Uneasy
Market7 Dec 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match5 Dec 2026
5 matches without a win for Dukla Prague
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Dukla Prague are no longer polite ones.
Logan Erb Logan Erb asks to leave Dukla Prague
Squad7 Dec 2026
“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.
Match5 Dec 2026
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tomáš Pekhart knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dukla Prague , and both men came out saying it was fine.