The Malženice Herald
Squad16 Sep 2030
A move Diogo Belo would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Diogo Belo is living that version at Malženice, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market16 Sep 2030
Walter Menduto asks to leave Malženice
“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.
Match14 Sep 2030
Malženice cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Transfer targets16 Sep 2030
Malženice rebuffed over Lukáš Domaniský
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Podbrezova have kept their man, and Malženice go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad16 Sep 2030
Words at Malženice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diogo Belo 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.
Match14 Sep 2030
Malženice come up short against MSK Zilina B
MSK Zilina B left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad16 Sep 2030
A falling-out at Malženice
Walter Menduto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Sep 2030
Home is on Giorgos Apalodimas's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Malženice are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The dugout16 Sep 2030
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Interim Coach left the room before anybody could ask which.
In brief
- Market A long bet from Malženice on Marius Burca
- Market Malženice sign Jasper Clasie, one for the future
- Player ratings Dávid Petrík beats them one at a time