Marek Sestak

Central Defender - Chaika
27 Sep 2028
Wednesday
Process

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86 Edition

The Chaika Courier

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Chaika

Stanislav Biblyk 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.

Squad

Evidence Billiat gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Evidence Billiat has just signed for Chaika, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Words at Chaika training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Julian Vazquez 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 142% of everything Chaika earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Loan watch

Ruslan Cherviakov has seen enough of Baltika

“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 Chaika, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Market

Chaika buy the years ahead of Evidence Billiat

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief

Back issues
60 Edition

The FK Senica Chronicle

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Dominik Hrosovsky 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.

Match

FK Senica get the job done against MFK Michalovce

A 2‑1 win over MFK Michalovce, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Albert Rusnak

At 22 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.

Squad

Carlos Guerreño 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Peter Lobotka

Marked 8.49 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Dominik Hrosovsky dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Squad

The plan did not have a place for Carlos Guerreño

Nobody at FK Senica 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.

Player ratings

Peter Sestak never got going

5.62 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

Player ratings

Albert Rusnak runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief