Jonáš Topič

Right Wingback - Sparta Prague B
16 Nov 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Jonáš Topič

15 Edition

The Sparta Prague B Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Jonáš Topič at 18 — 8.23

The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jonáš Topič did not need any: 8.23, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

6 saves: Sebastián Zajac 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.

Match

The drought breaks for Sparta Prague B

8 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Artis Brno were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Squad

Words exchanged at Sparta Prague B

Petr Zíka 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.

Squad

Enes Osmani signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Enes Osmani and Sparta Prague B agree another 4 years.

Match

Arsen Vitarigov the difference as Sparta Prague B beat Artis Brno

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Arsen Vitarigov. 2‑1 against Artis Brno, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces

One of their own: Ivan Anokye Mensah

He is 22 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.

Squad

Ivan Anokye Mensah 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Ivan Anokye Mensah

Marked 8.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Sparta Prague B Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Enes Osmani is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Tempers go at Sparta Prague B

Roman Horák was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Ivan Anokye Mensah stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ivan Anokye Mensah and Sparta Prague B agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ivan Anokye Mensah

“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.

Squad

Jakub Tošnar has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Sparta Prague B will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Market

No place for Tobiáš Souček in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Tobiáš Souček has his answer from Sparta Prague B; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market

The Roman Horák talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Sparta Prague B know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

Jonáš Topič has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Sparta Prague B will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

The manager makes Ferdinand Říha a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Sparta Prague B. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

7 Edition

The Sparta Prague B Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jonáš Topič

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Arsen Vitarigov, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.88

A mark of 7.88 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Real improvement from Jonáš Topič at Sparta Prague B

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jonáš Topič is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match

A bad afternoon for Sparta Prague B against Banik Ostrava B

2‑3 to Banik Ostrava B, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Roman Horák 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 Šimon Tesař

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

The dugout

Stanislav Brabec: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 2‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad

Šimon Tesař: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Sparta Prague B will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

Market

The Roman Horák talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Sparta Prague B know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

6 Edition

The Sparta Prague B Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The step up is real for Sebastian Pech

At 17 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Words at Sparta Prague B training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roman Horák 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.

Squad

Jeremy Rebibo makes the wrong kind of headline

Dealt with internally, which is the phrase a club uses when it would rather nobody asked twice. He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday.

Squad

Tempers go at Sparta Prague B

Petr Zíka was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The dugout

Jonáš Topič has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Sparta Prague B will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

Jaroslav Vaněk placed on the list

Sparta Prague B have made Jaroslav Vaněk available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief