The Pohronie Chronicle
Squad16 Jul 2029
A fracture rules Patrik Baleja out for 37 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Pohronie will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad16 Jul 2029
Words exchanged at Pohronie
Maxence Renoud 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.
Transfer targets16 Jul 2029
Door shut on Samuel Gamwo
Pohronie asked and Tatran Prešov said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad16 Jul 2029
Matthew Turner falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad16 Jul 2029
Pohronie count the cost of losing Robert Bero
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout16 Jul 2029
Gergely Tumma gets it from the manager
“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.
Transfer targets16 Jul 2029
A loan move for Franko Sabljić is in the works
Pohronie have made the call to DAC Dunajska Streda. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets16 Jul 2029
Pohronie ask about Aleksandre Narimanidze
A loan enquiry to MSK Zilina: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Market16 Jul 2029
The Patrik Baleja story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Patrik Baleja signs something — a contract at Pohronie or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- Market Still no signature from Šimon Sabolčík
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Gerald Kubazi
- Match Nothing left to play for but pride at Pohronie