0‑4. KAA Gent play this football every year and it showed in every part of the pitch. The lesson is expensive and, for a club at this stage, probably necessary.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dukla Prague, and it is not being withdrawn.
Jakub Kadák 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.
1‑3 to Viktoria Plzen, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Words at Dukla Prague training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samson Tijani 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.
“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.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Hilary Gong has, at Dukla Prague, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Dukla Prague close the window on a squad of their own making
16 in and 20 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Ludogorets is saying, and nobody at Dukla Prague is enjoying the guessing.
Jakub Kadák and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words at Dukla Prague training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samson Tijani 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.
“I watch every Dukla Prague game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Vlašim runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dukla Prague, and it is not being withdrawn.
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Samson Tijani was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shakhtar have kept their man, and Dukla Prague go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Defo Conte has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pribram lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Roger Faye will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Pribram the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Dantaye Gilbert 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.
At 18 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.
7.98, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Prince Ukachukwu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Pribram training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jan Knapík 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.
Minute 88, against Opava, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Kryštof Karban has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kryštof Karban, and the manager let it.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Pavel Masopust chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.