The Mlada Boleslav Chronicle
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Solomon John runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The step up is real for Stefan Jovanoski
At 20 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Mlada Boleslav
Christophe Kabongo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Door shut on Tomáš Digaňa
Mlada Boleslav 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
One of our own: Patrik Darida joins the Mlada Boleslav first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrik Darida is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Jan 2027
Mlada Boleslav promote Matej Soucek from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matej Soucek has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market11 Jan 2027
Matej Vydra steps up from the Mlada Boleslav academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Matej Vydra 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
One of our own: Adam Barak joins the Mlada Boleslav first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Adam Barak is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Mlada Boleslav training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adam Kadlec 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
- The dugout No hiding place for Denis Donát
- Transfer targets Mlada Boleslav ask about Viktor Budinský
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Ales Brabec on the draw