The Mlada Boleslav Chronicle
Market19 Jan 2032
Denny Samko is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mlada Boleslav is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout19 Jan 2032
Karel Darida says Mlada Boleslav went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market19 Jan 2032
Štěpán Lelek 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 Mlada Boleslav can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom19 Jan 2032
Denny Samko signs for Pardubice while still at Mlada Boleslav
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Denny Samko has agreed terms with Pardubice for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad19 Jan 2032
Tempers go at Mlada Boleslav
Abdullah Laidani 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.
Squad19 Jan 2032
Rob Dickie 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.
Transfer targets19 Jan 2032
Slavia Prague tell Mlada Boleslav: Matěj Valenta 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.
Match17 Jan 2032
The drought breaks for Mlada Boleslav
5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Sigma Olomouc were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Match17 Jan 2032
Filip Havelka the difference as Mlada Boleslav beat Sigma Olomouc
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Filip Havelka. 1‑0 against Sigma Olomouc, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
In brief
- Squad Tasos Bakasetas stays put
- Looking ahead A six-pointer for Mlada Boleslav
- Squad Mlada Boleslav count the cost of losing Filip Cerny