Daniel Barak

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515 Edition

The Slovacko Sentinel

9 Jun 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad9 Jun 2036

Artūr Dolžnikov breaks a bone — 97 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 97 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market9 Jun 2036

Vaclav Stanek puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Slovacko, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad9 Jun 2036

Tempers go at Slovacko

Filip Slavata 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.

Squad9 Jun 2036

Words at Slovacko training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Štěpán Beran 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.

Squad9 Jun 2036

Artūr Dolžnikov signs on for more

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

Boardroom9 Jun 2036

Slovacko agree a free transfer for Filip Coufal

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

In brief

Back issues
476 Edition

The Slovacko Sentinel

10 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad10 Sep 2035

Daniel Barak damages knee ligaments — 20 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 20 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.

Squad10 Sep 2035

A one-man rearguard from Filip Slavata

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match8 Sep 2035

Slovacko throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Slovan Liberec the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Slovacko will enjoy reviewing.

Player ratings10 Sep 2035

A brace, and Jakub Snopek takes the afternoon — 8.32

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jakub Snopek provided it, and the 8.32 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings10 Sep 2035

Age has not caught Pavel Juroška yet — 8.59

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.59 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match8 Sep 2035

Slovacko leaking at the back

7 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Squad10 Sep 2035

Tempers go at Slovacko

Martin Uhrovič 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.

Squad10 Sep 2035

Štěpán Beran 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.

Player ratings10 Sep 2035

One of those days for Štěpán Beran

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.11, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

475 Edition

The Slovacko Sentinel

3 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match1 Sep 2035

A hiding for Slovacko

Beaten 3‑7 by Viktoria Plzen, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad3 Sep 2035

A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Barak

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

Squad3 Sep 2035

A one-man rearguard from Filip Slavata

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings3 Sep 2035

Filip Hruška runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings3 Sep 2035

Pavel Juroška, 34, rolls back the years — 8.17

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.17 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match1 Sep 2035

Slovacko are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 6 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Squad3 Sep 2035

Martin Šviderský signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Martin Šviderský commits to Slovacko for another 2 years.

Squad3 Sep 2035

Martin Uhrovič 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 Slovacko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match1 Sep 2035

10 goals as Slovacko and Viktoria Plzen go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 10 goals between Slovacko and Viktoria Plzen, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

In brief