The Viktoria Plzen Courier
Market19 Jul 2027
Tom Slončík agrees terms with FC Košice
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Viktoria Plzen people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Viktoria Plzen
Viktor Baier 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 Viktoria Plzen
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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Viktoria Plzen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Denis Vavro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market19 Jul 2027
Ondrej Jankto steps up from the Viktoria Plzen academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ondrej Jankto 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
One of our own: Daniel Soucek joins the Viktoria Plzen first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Soucek is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market19 Jul 2027
One of our own: Daniel Schick joins the Viktoria Plzen first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Schick is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
The ground is getting bigger
The plans are signed off at a capacity of 11916. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Viktoria Plzen are still strangers to each other
9 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
In brief
- Loan watch Dominik Ťapaj wants to come home
- The dugout Tomáš Ladra knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout When it matters, Karel Spáčil plays