Marked for Daniel Dřevíkovský
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Chrudim
Marek Icha 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at Chrudim training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pavel Osmančík 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.
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
93% of the income goes out in wages at Chrudim
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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Marek Kejř gets it from the manager
“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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Michal Řezáč 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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Dollard Wandji has written the date down.
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Triumph
Squad25 Jan 2027
A season average of 7.54 with 25 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match23 Jan 2027
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Fortune Bassey scored in the 86th minute, Sparta Prague B had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Chrudim took the lot.
Match23 Jan 2027
The run at home goes on for Chrudim
11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match23 Jan 2027
Chrudim cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Chrudim
Fortune Bassey and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Daniel Dřevíkovský has, at Chrudim, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Chrudim
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pavel Osmančík was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Chrudim asked and Hradec Králové said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.