The Opava Chronicle
Market12 Jun 2028
Amar Memić sold, and an era ends
$17.7M from Slavia Prague for Amar Memić. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Kenneth Ikugar breaks a bone — 69 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 69 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market12 Jun 2028
Matěj Helešic puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Opava, and it is not being withdrawn.
The terraces12 Jun 2028
Opava sell a favourite for $17.7M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Amar Memić was one of the reasons people came, and $17.7M does not replace that by itself.
Transfer targets12 Jun 2028
Arouna Ouattara due for a Opava medical
Everything agreed with Pardubice, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets12 Jun 2028
No thanks: Adam Ševínský rejects the move
Opava had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Sparta Prague, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Jaromír Srubek 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 Opava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Opava lose John Auta
36 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad12 Jun 2028
A row about effort at Opava
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jakub Barac was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Transfer targets Sigma Olomouc tell Opava: Jan Stejskal is not for sale
- Market No place for Jakub Barac in the plan
- Market Opava promote Daniel Darida from within