Spartak Trnava close the window on a squad of their own making
20 in and 1 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.
Spartak Trnava have gone to MFK Skalica 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Spartak Trnava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdulrahman Taiwo 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.
Spartak Trnava asked and Crvena Zvezda said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Dinamo Bucharest keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Spartak Trnava pay $1.2M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matej Kochan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
MFK Skalica will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Spartak Trnava were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Two goals and a mark of 8.40 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
He is going to MSK Zilina, the club has $1.1M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $1.2M has been paid because David Bero is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Luka Khorkheli 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.
$140.0K was the most the club would pay and AS Trencin were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
In brief
The terracesSpartak Trnava spend $1.2M on the signing the town wanted
The offer from MFK Ruzomberok for David Bero 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.
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Spartak Myjava waiting with a shirt. Nobody at FK Senica is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The offer went to Spartak Trnava this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Everything agreed with Dinamo Bucharest, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nacional have kept their man, and FK Senica go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The clubs have shaken hands with FK Senica; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Successful dribbles: 25. 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.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luka Khorkheli and Spartak Trnava agree another 4 years.
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Add another name to the list: MSK Zilina have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Martin Vantruba. The answer from Spartak Trnava has not changed — yet.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Denis Pekarik is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 89th, and Spartak Myjava spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
David Bero 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.
The interest is real enough to have reached print. FK Senica have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Matej Kochan 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.
FK Senica asked and MFK Skalica said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Lukas Schick 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.