Martin Holes

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10 Sep 2034
Sunday
Process

Marked for Martin Holes

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The Teplice Post

5 Jun 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Matouš Trmal

35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Teplice lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom

Teplice spell it out for Ondrej Sykora

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Ondrej Sykora has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom

Crisis meeting at Teplice

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Squad

Matouš Trmal 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 Teplice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Martin Holes gets the move he always wanted

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

Squad

Robert Jukl signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Robert Jukl and Teplice agree another 2 years.

Market

Teplice sign Martin Holes, one for the future

Martin Holes is 20, and Teplice have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market

No place for Kacper Buchalik in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Kacper Buchalik has his answer from Teplice; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market

The Juergen Elitím talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Teplice know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

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The Banik Ostrava Herald

8 Aug 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jiří Boula

14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Banik Ostrava lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Filip Kubala has been here 9 seasons

437 appearances across 9 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Squad

Tempers go at Banik Ostrava

Michal Kohút 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Filip Kubala

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Real improvement from Vladimir Stanek at Banik Ostrava

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Vladimir Stanek is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match

Bohemians 1905 take the points off Banik Ostrava

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Boardroom

$276.7K lands at Banik Ostrava thanks to Samuel Grygar

A clause somebody insisted on years ago, in a negotiation nobody remembers, has just paid Banik Ostrava $276.7K. Samuel Grygar left a long time ago; the paperwork stayed.

Market

No place for Ellis Clark in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Ellis Clark has his answer from Banik Ostrava; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market

Ben Barclay placed on the list

Banik Ostrava have made Ben Barclay available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief