17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FK Senica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Peter Valjent 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.
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.
The words a physio says slowly. 25 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 board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Albert Benes has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
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.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Serhii Petko 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.
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Matej Oravec is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FK Senica is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Peter Valjent 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.
“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 The request is on a desk at FK Senica, and it is not being withdrawn.
The phone has started ringing about David Mazuch again, and this time the name on the line is Petrolul. FK Senica are listening politely and promising nothing.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Juraj Hamsik will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FK Senica the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Peter Valjent 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Jakub Hamsik 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.
14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FK Senica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The offer from AS Trencin for Jakub Suslov 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Peter Valjent 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.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Peter Valjent 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.
A mark of 7.66, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Andrej Nemec's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Jakub Suslov is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FK Senica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
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.
Peter Valjent 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.
6 goals in one match, David Mazuch on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of FK Senica and Slovan Bratislava.
Slovan Bratislava left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jakub Hamsik 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.
28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FK Senica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Going 3 down does something to a side, and what it usually does is finish them. Not here. FK Senica rebuilt the afternoon goal by goal, and AS Trencin had no answer to any of it.
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 95th minute. Zlate Moravce will replay every second of the added time for a week.
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Juraj Bozenik did not need any: 9.04, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
“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 FK Senica, and it is not being withdrawn.
The name of David Mazuch has come up in conversations FK Senica were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The words a physio says slowly. 36 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.
Jakub Suslov 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.
Podbrezova left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Peter Valjent 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.
Marked 8.12 — 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.