Marked for Daniel Darida
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 Jan 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Darida
14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Jablonec lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Jan 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match22 Jan 2028
It had gone 7 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Words exchanged at Jablonec
Vakhtang Chanturishvili and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad24 Jan 2028
A row about effort at Jablonec
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabriele Guarino was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Jan 2028
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.
Match22 Jan 2028
Jihlava made Jablonec work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings24 Jan 2028
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings24 Jan 2028
Ninety minutes of Christián Herc at his very best
Marked 8.17. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Jablonec.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad17 Jan 2028
Daniel Darida damages knee ligaments — 21 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 21 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.
Match15 Jan 2028
No end in sight to Jablonec's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Jablonec has to find a result from somewhere.
Market17 Jan 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Jablonec, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market17 Jan 2028
Jablonec say no — this time
The offer from Pribram for Marián Tvrdoň was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Jablonec
Bas Kuipers and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Jan 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sigma Olomouc have kept their man, and Jablonec go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match15 Jan 2028
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout17 Jan 2028
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Words at Jablonec training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nassim Innocenti 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.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Jan 2028
Daniel Darida damages knee ligaments — 29 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 29 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.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
Successful dribbles: 33. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market10 Jan 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match8 Jan 2028
6 matches without a win for Jablonec
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Jablonec are no longer polite ones.
Market10 Jan 2028
Viktoria Plzen pay $1.2M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market10 Jan 2028
Viktoria Plzen paid $1.2M and Jablonec took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Jimmy Dunne 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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Jablonec know it.
Squad10 Jan 2028
A row about effort at Jablonec
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabriele Guarino was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Squad3 Jan 2028
Daniel Darida damages knee ligaments — 37 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 37 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.
Match3 Jan 2028
Jablonec sink to position 14
22 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market3 Jan 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Jablonec can pretend not to have heard.
Match1 Jan 2028
5 matches without a win for Jablonec
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Jablonec are no longer polite ones.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Sebastian Nebyla 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.
Squad3 Jan 2028
At 37, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Match1 Jan 2028
A bad afternoon for Jablonec against Zlin
1‑2 to Zlin, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout3 Jan 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market3 Jan 2028
The name of Jan Fortelný has come up in conversations Jablonec were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.