Marked for Karol Suslov
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Steady
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FK Senica may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Martin Mikovič and FK Senica agree another 2 years.
Match7 Aug 2027
A 2‑1 win over Spartak Myjava, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces9 Aug 2027
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad9 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Martin Mikovič
“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.
Match7 Aug 2027
FK Senica settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Spartak Myjava spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Milan Bero was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.40. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Tomás Aristizábal 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.
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Uneasy
Market3 May 2027
Juraj Valjent hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FK Senica can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 May 2027
Milan Bero 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.
Squad3 May 2027
Bamba Diarrassouba 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.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Feb 2027
Karol Suslov: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FK Senica have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Martin Mikovič and FK Senica agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Matej Hamsik 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Bamba Diarrassouba 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.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
“I watch every FK Senica game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Nizhniy Novgorod runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Market1 Feb 2027
FK Senica shop where it costs nothing
Alejandro Morales signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.
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Uneasy
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market14 Dec 2026
Juraj Valjent hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FK Senica can pretend not to have heard.
Match12 Dec 2026
FK Senica cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bamba Diarrassouba 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.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
“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 0 appearances in 18 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Karol Suslov, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Stefan Sestak
106 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.
Match19 Aug 2026
FK Senica through in the cup
A 2‑1 win over Zlate Moravce, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Lukas Rusnak could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.79
Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.79, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Stefan Mazuch — 7.52
Marked 7.52. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Market24 Aug 2026
Zlate Moravce pay $570.0K, 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Stefan Mazuch scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to AS Trencin, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Milan Bero
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match1 Aug 2026
FK Senica win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. Spartak Myjava will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Samuel Mazuch and FK Senica agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Milan Bero 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 FK Senica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Kristian Mak again, and this time the name on the line is MSK Zilina. FK Senica are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Karol Suslov 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.