The Banik Ostrava Herald
Market28 Jun 2027
Dennis Owusu says no to Táborsko
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Dennis Owusu had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Squad28 Jun 2027
32 days out for Adam Bitta after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Banik Ostrava will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market28 Jun 2027
České Budějovice come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Banik Ostrava did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market28 Jun 2027
Dennis Owusu hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Banik Ostrava can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Jun 2027
The step up is real for Simon Baroš
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Banik Ostrava
Filip Kubala 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.
Market28 Jun 2027
One of our own: Matej Soucek joins the Banik Ostrava first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matej Soucek is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words at Banik Ostrava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dennis Owusu 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.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
When it matters, Daniel Holzer plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Match Banik Ostrava in the hunt for Europe
- The dugout Ondřej Mihálik knocks on the manager’s door
- Boardroom The Banik Ostrava academy earns its keep