The Zlate Moravce Herald
Squad31 Aug 2026
6 saves: Alexandr Degtev was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Luka Mlakar
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Zlate Moravce have done the hard part with NK Maribor, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Lukas Schick beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Václav Ondřejka in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zlate Moravce this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Door shut on Tugra Turhan
Zlate Moravce asked and Basaksehir said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ivan Budachev 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
David Jablonský 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 dugout31 Aug 2026
Zlate Moravce pick somebody else ahead of Ivan Budachev
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match29 Aug 2026
Honours even between Zlate Moravce and Spartak Trnava
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
- The dugout Juraj Kucka: “We have to be better”
- The dugout Ivan Budachev asks for a word with the manager
- Looking ahead A reunion for Filip Balaj