The Dukla Prague Gazette
Market3 Apr 2028
Dario Kreiker is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dukla Prague is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Boubou Diallo wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Dukla Prague can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Tempers go at Dukla Prague
Samson Tijani 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.
Squad3 Apr 2028
A row about effort at Dukla Prague
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zlatan Šehović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Apr 2028
Adam Sima steps up from the Dukla Prague academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Adam Sima 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.
Market3 Apr 2028
David Cerny steps up from the Dukla Prague academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. David Cerny 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.
Market3 Apr 2028
Jakub Provod steps up from the Dukla Prague academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jakub Provod 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.
The dugout3 Apr 2028
Samson Tijani knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Samson Tijani trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad3 Apr 2028
The armband comes off Rajmund Mikuš
Dukla Prague will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Michal Vrána
- The dugout Defo Conte gets picked when it counts
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Defo Conte