Adam Holes

Striker - Slovan Liberec
26 Nov 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Adam Holes

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The Slovan Liberec Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Vasil Kušej runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 47. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Slovan Liberec are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 20 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Slovan Liberec

Tomáš Koubek and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Lukáš Masopust

A mark of 7.51, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

Adam Holes stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Adam Holes and Slovan Liberec agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

No hiding place for Petr Hodouš

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

The dugout

Jan Bořil 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 Jan Bořil is on it.

The dugout

Lukáš Hůlka dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Martin Sima was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Slovan Liberec dressing room was either.

In brief

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The Slovan Liberec Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Qëndrim Zyba goes up and wins it — 7.96

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.96 for the rest of it.

Match

8 unbeaten for Slovan Liberec

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Slovan Liberec did not have in the autumn.

Match

Slovan Liberec keep winning on the road

4 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

Transfer targets

Grasshopper tell Slovan Liberec: Lee Young-Jun is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The terraces

One of their own: Alexandr Bužek

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Market

Adam Holes steps up from the Slovan Liberec academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Adam Holes 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: Vladimir Coufal joins the Slovan Liberec first team

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

Match

Slovan Liberec find a way past Viktoria Plzen

Viktoria Plzen made Slovan Liberec work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Words at Slovan Liberec training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jan Mikula 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.

In brief