The Mlada Boleslav Chronicle
Market29 Apr 2030
Alex Eichler 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 The request is on a desk at Mlada Boleslav, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market29 Apr 2030
Denis Donát has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mlada Boleslav they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market29 Apr 2030
Adam Ševínský wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Mlada Boleslav hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad29 Apr 2030
A falling-out at Mlada Boleslav
David Holzer and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad29 Apr 2030
Tincho 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.
The dugout29 Apr 2030
No hiding place for Tomáš Solil
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tomáš Solil, and the manager let it.
Market29 Apr 2030
The Jiří Klíma story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Jiří Klíma signs something — a contract at Mlada Boleslav or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad29 Apr 2030
Lukáš Neufus has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Mlada Boleslav that is a harder question to answer.
The dugout29 Apr 2030
Aris Aksel Sörensen has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Aris Aksel Sörensen has written the date down.
In brief
- The dugout Filip Juranka knocks on the manager's door
- Boardroom The Mlada Boleslav production line keeps running
- Squad More bad news for Daniel Sima