The Jablonec Sentinel
Squad19 Jul 2027
The knee: Filip Zorvan out for 112 days
112 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Jablonec lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market19 Jul 2027
Terms done: Nassim Innocenti is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Jihlava waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Jablonec is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market19 Jul 2027
Saidou Alioum 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 The request is on a desk at Jablonec, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market19 Jul 2027
Jablonec turn down Zlate Moravce for Marián Tvrdoň
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Jablonec
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.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Jablonec
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Door shut on Yunusa Muritala
Jablonec 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
David Darida steps up from the Jablonec academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. David Darida 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.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
Jablonec are making the ground bigger
Work is signed off on a capacity of 4112. It is the sort of decision a club is judged on twenty years later, by people who were not there when it was taken.
In brief
- The dugout Dušan Pavlović knocks on the manager's door
- Looking ahead Jakub Hodek faces his old club
- Squad Ghali Falke: “I am not a substitute”