The Slavia Prague Gazette
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
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.
Market19 Apr 2027
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.
Market19 Apr 2027
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.
Market19 Apr 2027
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.
Market19 Apr 2027
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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
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 dugout19 Apr 2027
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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
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
- Squad The penny has dropped for Vlasiy Sinyavskiy
- Loan watch Štěpán Chaloupek's loan at Teplice nearly up