The Banik Ostrava Herald
Squad23 Jul 2029
The knee: Patrik Čavoš out for 25 days
25 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Banik Ostrava lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad23 Jul 2029
A fracture rules Alan Marinelli out for 145 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Banik Ostrava will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market23 Jul 2029
Tomáš Digaňa has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Banik Ostrava they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market23 Jul 2029
Karel Pojezný wants more than Banik Ostrava are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Matěj Chaluš in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Banik Ostrava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings23 Jul 2029
Srđan Plavšić runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Šimon Vlna is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Boardroom23 Jul 2029
9 academy graduates step up at Banik Ostrava
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets23 Jul 2029
Door shut on Jan Kliment
Banik Ostrava asked and Sigma Olomouc said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
- Market Banik Ostrava promote Daniel Provod from within
- Market David Sykora steps up from the Banik Ostrava academy
- Player ratings Both jobs done by Dantaye Gilbert — 6.69