The Zlin Chronicle
Match6 Feb 2027
A hiding for Zlin
Beaten 0‑3 by Sparta Prague, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market8 Feb 2027
Daniel Hais asks to leave Zlin
“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
7 saves: Stanislav Dostál was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
19 goals on loan for El Hadji Latyr N'Diaye
23 appearances at Opava and the goals keep coming. Zlin are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market8 Feb 2027
The Slovacko deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Milan Knobloch reports back to Zlin with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Michal Fukala stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Michal Fukala and Zlin agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Zlin
Mohamed Azzi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Antonín Křapka 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 targets8 Feb 2027
Zlin rebuffed over Steven Alfred
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Torpedo-BelAZ have kept their man, and Zlin go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Market Zlin promote Daniel Brabec from within
- Market Ales Holes steps up from the Zlin academy
- The dugout Stanley Kanu gets it from the manager