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Uneasy
Market8 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Matej Hamsik 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vladimir Gyomber 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 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Patrik Bero commits to FK Senica for another 3 years.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
“I did not go to MSK Zilina to sit and watch. I want to come back to FK Senica and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 26 matches say the rest.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Miroslav Strelec, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 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.
Loan watch4 Jan 2027
“I watch every FK Senica game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at MSK Zilina runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad4 Jan 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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Crisis
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad7 Dec 2026
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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Zlate Moravce left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Vladimir 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Miroslav Strelec and FK Senica agree another 2 years.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Stefan Sestak
21 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. FK Senica scored in the 94th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Kristian Duda out for 19 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FK Senica will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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.
Match7 Nov 2026
AS Trencin made FK Senica work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I did not go to MSK Zilina to sit and watch. I want to come back to FK Senica and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
The crowd has taken to Karol Bero
At 16 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 Nov 2026
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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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
Stefan Sestak damages knee ligaments — 52 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 52 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Kristian Duda breaks a bone — 50 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 50 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Matej Hamsik scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to MSK Zilina, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Stefan Sestak
83 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.43 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Vladimir 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.
Squad14 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.
Loan watch14 Sep 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 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Match12 Sep 2026
It needed Lukas Pekarik to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against MFK Michalovce, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Erik Valjent finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. FK Senica have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Patrik Bero changes it off the bench
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and FK Senica had a different afternoon.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 7. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to MSK Zilina's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at MSK Zilina has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings14 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Michal Faško
A mark of 7.26, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match12 Sep 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. MFK Ruzomberok defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Squad14 Sep 2026
At 22 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching from the bench. Places at MSK Zilina are won quietly and lost loudly.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Patrik Iľko knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at MSK Zilina, and both men came out saying it was fine.