The Sparta Prague Herald
Market5 Jul 2027
Hartberg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sparta Prague did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market5 Jul 2027
Sivert Mannsverk raises the bar for Sparta Prague
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Sparta Prague heard it as anything else.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Jakub Surovčík stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jakub Surovčík and Sparta Prague agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Sparta Prague
Adam Karabec and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market5 Jul 2027
Daniel Coufal steps up from the Sparta Prague academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Coufal has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market5 Jul 2027
One of our own: Jan Provod joins the Sparta Prague first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jan Provod is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Patrik Vydra 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Too much change too quickly at Sparta Prague
9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
Magnus Kofod Andersen 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.
In brief
- Boardroom Intake day at the Sparta Prague academy
- The dugout Michal Kohút has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Adam Karabec knocks on the manager’s door