Michal Schick

Striker - Slavia Prague U18
29 Jan 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Michal Schick

40 Edition

The Slavia Prague Gazette

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Danijel Šturm is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slavia Prague is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Home is on Patrick Kpozo'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; Slavia Prague are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Antonin Soucek signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Antonin Soucek commits to Slavia Prague for another 4 years.

Squad

A step back for Jo Coppens at Slavia Prague

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

The dugout

David Jurásek gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say David Jurásek is on it.

The dugout

Antonin Soucek 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.

Market

Michal Sadílek linked with a move away

The name of Michal Sadílek keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Slavia Prague say nothing, which says plenty.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Vasil Kušej’s exile

3 goals in 18 games at Slovan Liberec — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Slavia Prague updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

The dugout

Michal Schick asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

Back issues
38 Edition

The Slavia Prague Gazette

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Loan watch

Nobody is scoring past Ondřej Kolář at Viktoria Plzen

15 shut-outs in 21 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Ondřej Kolář has been having a lot of them.

Market

Antonin Soucek steps up from the Slavia Prague academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Antonin Soucek 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.

Market

Michal Barak steps up from the Slavia Prague academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michal Barak 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.

Market

Michal Schick steps up from the Slavia Prague academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michal Schick 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.

Market

One of our own: Vaclav Stanek joins the Slavia Prague first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vaclav Stanek is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

Matěj Valenta 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.

Squad

Jakub Šmiga signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jakub Šmiga and Slavia Prague agree another 5 years.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jakub Kratochvíl

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jakub Kratochvíl, and the manager let it.

Squad

Jakub Kratochvíl has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Slavia Prague will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

In brief