Marked for Samuel Duda
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Match9 Dec 2028
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Slovan Bratislava U21, and it could have been more.
Squad11 Dec 2028
A fracture rules Zac Edwards out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stará Ľubovňa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings11 Dec 2028
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.18, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market11 Dec 2028
“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 The request is on a desk at Stará Ľubovňa, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad11 Dec 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lukáš Jendrek commits to Stará Ľubovňa for another 4 years.
Squad11 Dec 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stará Ľubovňa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces11 Dec 2028
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad11 Dec 2028
17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market11 Dec 2028
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Stará Ľubovňa, another week without a signature from Ľuboslav Levai.
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Squad6 Nov 2028
A fracture rules Tomáš Solotruk out for 48 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stará Ľubovňa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match4 Nov 2028
The 86th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Christopher Argueta decided nobody was going anywhere. Pohronie had no time left to answer.
Player ratings6 Nov 2028
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Christopher Argueta did not need any: 7.62, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
The dugout6 Nov 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Boardroom6 Nov 2028
$100.5K of the owner's money at Stará Ľubovňa
The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Michael Hönig 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.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Denis Duga 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.
Boardroom6 Nov 2028
Wages eat 194% of everything Stará Ľubovňa earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The terraces6 Nov 2028
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Christopher Argueta has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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Upbeat
The dugout24 Jul 2028
Dominik Šnajder: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Stará Ľubovňa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market24 Jul 2028
The offer from Fratria for Bozhidar Hristov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Ľuboslav Levai and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom24 Jul 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Stará Ľubovňa
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.
Match22 Jul 2028
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Transfer targets24 Jul 2028
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Michael Hönig 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.
Market24 Jul 2028
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ondrej Suslov 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.
Market24 Jul 2028
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Milan Lobotka has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.