Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FK Senica they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. FK Senica have done the hard part with Zbrojovka Brno, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Stefan Nemec 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Banik Ostrava have kept their man, and FK Senica go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at FK Senica has been clear about where Peter Pekarik stands, which is more than many ever get.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
The dugoutDavid Hubocan knocks on the manager's door
The words a physio says slowly. 15 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around FK Senica people have started saying his name in the past tense.
FK Senica had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at AE Kition, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
FK Senica asked and Viktoria Plzen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kristian Mak 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.
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
The words a physio says slowly. 33 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The offer from Spartak Trnava for Jakub Skriniar was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Stefan Nemec 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 name of Norbert Duda has come up in conversations FK Senica were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Everyone has stopped pretending: Zlate Moravce will make the call about Michal Duris this week. FK Senica have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
A loan enquiry to Viktoria Plzen: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Kristian Mak 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Filip Bero was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
In brief
The dugoutMiroslav Duda asks for a word with the manager
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FK Senica they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Stefan Nemec 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kristian Mak 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.
Two goals and a mark of 8.03 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FK Senica they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Stefan Nemec 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.
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between FK Senica and AS Trencin, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Peter Mak 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Filip Bero was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Norbert Duda will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FK Senica the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Stefan Nemec 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.
7 goals in one match, Adam Rusnak on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of FK Senica and MSK Zilina.
10 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 3‑4 Jan Strelec left the room before anybody could ask which.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FK Senica they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Slavia Prague is saying, and nobody at FK Senica is enjoying the guessing.
Stefan Nemec 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dynamo Kyiv have kept their man, and FK Senica go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kristian Mak was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around FK Senica people have started saying his name in the past tense.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. FK Senica have done the hard part with Slavia Prague, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Sparta Prague keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
6 goals in one match, Adam Rusnak on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of FK Senica and Slovan Bratislava.
Zlate Moravce go through and FK Senica go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and MFK Skalica waiting with a shirt. Nobody at FK Senica is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FK Senica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kristian Mak was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Stefan Nemec 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Club Brugge have kept their man, and FK Senica go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Spartak Myjava made FK Senica work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kristian Mak 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Adam Rusnak was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.10. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
A loan enquiry to Viktoria Plzen: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.