The Viktoria Plzen Courier
Market21 Jun 2027
Adam Ševínský agrees terms with Vasas
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Viktoria Plzen people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
The paperwork begins on Asger Sørensen
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Viktoria Plzen have done the hard part with Sparta Prague, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market21 Jun 2027
Viktoria Plzen turn down Podbrezova for Dávid Krčík
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Door shut on Sebastian Nebyla
Viktoria Plzen asked and Jablonec said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market21 Jun 2027
Adam Ševínský is a Viktoria Plzen player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Denis Vavro 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Florian Wiegele 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 Viktoria Plzen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market21 Jun 2027
Viktoria Plzen promote Daniel Sima from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Sima has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Home is on Alan Marinelli's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Viktoria Plzen are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
In brief
- Squad The formation has left Adam Ševínský behind
- The dugout Patrik Hrošovský has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Stefan Pirgić gets it from the manager