The Dukla Prague Gazette
Squad17 Apr 2028
Martin Darida damages knee ligaments — 17 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 17 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market17 Apr 2028
Only the photograph left for Nesta Guinness-Walker
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nesta Guinness-Walker will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dukla Prague the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad17 Apr 2028
A falling-out at Dukla Prague
Samson Tijani and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Words at Dukla Prague training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Látal 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 dugout17 Apr 2028
No hiding place for Samson Tijani
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samson Tijani, and the manager let it.
Market17 Apr 2028
The David Látal question follows Dukla Prague around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with David Látal’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
When it matters, Seif Ali Hindi 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.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
The manager makes Jakub Černín a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Dukla Prague. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
Nesta Guinness-Walker knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nesta Guinness-Walker trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Squad Zlatan Šehović starts on the language
- Boardroom The Dukla Prague production line keeps running
- Match Mid-table, and Dukla Prague know it