The Sparta Prague Herald
Market11 Sep 2028
Adam Ševínský agrees terms with České Budějovice
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Sparta Prague people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market11 Sep 2028
Marcos Denia says no to FC Metz
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Marcos Denia had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market11 Sep 2028
Tobias Guddal 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 The request is on a desk at Sparta Prague, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout11 Sep 2028
Matěj Ryneš frozen out at Sparta Prague
This is not rotation. Matěj Ryneš has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Sparta Prague is pretending otherwise.
Squad11 Sep 2028
A falling-out at Sparta Prague
John Mercado and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Words at Sparta Prague training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leandro Andrade is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets11 Sep 2028
Sparta Prague rebuffed over Hamidou Kante
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slavia Prague have kept their man, and Sparta Prague go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Sparta Prague count the cost of losing Elias Cobbaut
17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market11 Sep 2028
Tatran Liptovský Mikuláš join the queue for Stanislav Sima
Add another name to the list: Tatran Liptovský Mikuláš have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Stanislav Sima. The answer from Sparta Prague has not changed — yet.
In brief
- Squad 13 new faces, and Sparta Prague are still learning each other
- The dugout When it matters, Filip Panák plays
- The dugout No hiding place for Raimonds Krollis