Marked for Peter Weiss
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match2 Oct 2027
No end in sight to FK Senica's wait for a win
33 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at FK Senica has to find a result from somewhere.
The terraces4 Oct 2027
The mood at FK Senica has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Pressure builds in the FK Senica boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Match4 Oct 2027
FK Senica are in real trouble now
Position 12, 2 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Jakub Hubocan has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at FK Senica can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Peter Weiss and FK Senica agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Patrik Iľko 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
A row about effort at FK Senica
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christophe Kabongo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Uneasy
Match21 Jun 2027
Every point is an argument now for FK Senica
Position 12 and 3 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad21 Jun 2027
At 21 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.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Botev Plovdiv have kept their man, and FK Senica go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad21 Jun 2027
The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for David Cerny, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad21 Jun 2027
33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and FK Senica know it.
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Uneasy
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
The caretaker keeps it: Jakub Pekarik confirmed
A month of looking elsewhere ended where it started. He already knows every name in the building; the rest of it he now has to prove in public.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Peter Weiss and FK Senica agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Oleg Mamonov 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.
Loan watch8 Mar 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at FK Senica, and 4 appearances in 30 say he has earned the hearing.
Market8 Mar 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jakub Pekarik’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
15 matches without a win for FK Senica
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around FK Senica are no longer polite ones.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
Anger at FK Senica spills outside the ground
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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Chastening afternoon for FK Senica
A 0‑6 beating by Podbrezova was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match31 Oct 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between FK Senica and Podbrezova, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Peter Weiss 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Nobody left the FK Senica dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad2 Nov 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Michal Sestak knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑6, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for FK Senica
10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad28 Sep 2026
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market28 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jakub Pekarik 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑2 to MFK Ruzomberok, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Matej Mazuch and FK Senica agree another 3 years.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
11 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market10 Aug 2026
Cherno More come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and FK Senica did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Viktoria Plzen, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jan Hubocan and FK Senica agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at FK Senica
Stefan Valjent 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Peter Weiss 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Stefan Valjent
“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.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about David Duris again, and this time the name on the line is Ruch. FK Senica are listening politely and promising nothing.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Podbrezova have kept their man, and FK Senica go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
An offer of $510.0K for Joe Wright
FK Senica have gone to Bradford City with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Stefan Valjent and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Peter Weiss 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.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jakub Pekarik, and the manager let it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Antonin Soucek and FK Senica agree another 2 years.
Match1 Aug 2026
Late, late show earns FK Senica a point
Minute 93, against Spartak Myjava, 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.