Marked for Jakub Weiss
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Steady
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Jakub Weiss, 21, steals the show — 7.78
Marked 7.78 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market30 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Erik Riška
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Erik Riška will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around MFK Skalica the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at MFK Skalica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roman Potočný 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Richard Ludha 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Jakub Weiss scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to MSK Zilina, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martin Nagy, and the manager let it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Looking ahead30 Nov 2026
Spartak Myjava next, and one man in the MFK Skalica dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
The match ball belongs to Roman Potočný, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 9.80, and nobody on the pitch better.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
No sign of nerves from Jakub Weiss at 21 — 7.90
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jakub Weiss did not need any: 7.90, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market2 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Erik Riška
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Erik Riška will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around MFK Skalica the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match31 Oct 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about MFK Skalica and Zlate Moravce in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Roman Potočný
13 goals and a season average of 7.30 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Adrián Urban 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 terraces2 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Jakub Weiss 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.
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Crisis
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Roman Potočný, 35, rolls back the years — 7.98
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.98 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Roman Potočný 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Petr Pudhorocký 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A muscle injury and 15 days out for Šimon Beňa
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. MFK Skalica will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
The leaders are next for MFK Skalica
Slovan Bratislava top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.26 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Petr Pudhorocký 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Levan Nonikashvili 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.
Match20 Sep 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Richard Ludha
“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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 2‑2, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Squad21 Sep 2026
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Roman Potočný has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The plan did not have a place for Martin Nagy
Nobody at MFK Skalica is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Erik Daniel beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Roman Potočný 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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Arsenal Tula have kept their man, and MFK Skalica go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Adrián Urban 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.77, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Adam Morong 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
It needed Erik Daniel to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against FK Senica, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Miroslav Valjent after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jakub Weiss wants out of the dugout
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and MFK Skalica will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
FK Senica say no — this time
The offer from Slovan Bratislava for Jakub Pekarik 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Isloch had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at FK Senica
Lukas Gyomber 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Erik Gyomber 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Chances created: 14. Nothing on the scoresheet and everything in the match: the pass before the pass, over and over, until the defence stopped guessing right.
Match15 Aug 2026
FK Senica rescue it on 95 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 95. Podbrezova had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Match15 Aug 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan move for Ionuţ Gurău is in the works
FK Senica have made the call to Bylis. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Steady
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Roman Potočný yet — 7.97
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.97 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: FK Senica keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. MSK Zilina have kept their man, and MFK Skalica go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at MFK Skalica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: MFK Ruzomberok have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Lukáš Leginus. The answer from MFK Skalica has not changed — yet.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Roman Potočný was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The formation has left Adrián Urban behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. MFK Skalica will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Erik Daniel beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan move for Artem Arutyunov is in the works
MFK Skalica have made the call to Arsenal Tula. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Lukáš Fabiš arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Lukáš Fabiš has, at FK Senica, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
$560.0K on the table at DAC Dunajska Streda. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Lukas Gyomber 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Jakub Weiss again, and this time the name on the line is Montana. FK Senica are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Martin Lobotka at his very best
Marked 9.43. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at FK Senica.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Erik Gyomber 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.