Radoslav Tonev

Left Midfielder - Púchov
24 Jun 2035
Sunday
Process

Marked for Radoslav Tonev

442 Edition

The Púchov Chronicle

15 Jan 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A falling-out at Púchov

Aleksandre Turkia and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Adam Valjent

Púchov asked and Zlate Moravce said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

MFK Skalica take the points off Púchov

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Lukáš Raběčný 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Shay Reid

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Home is on Radoslav Tonev's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Púchov are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout

Interim Coach: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Lukas Bero is in the works

Púchov have made the call to AS Trencin. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Jakub Sestak is in the works

Púchov have made the call to AS Trencin. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

Back issues
434 Edition

The Púchov Chronicle

20 Nov 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Aleksandre Turkia breaks a bone — 54 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 54 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Milan Mak

30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Púchov lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout

Samuel Vavrúš keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Púchov may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

A falling-out at Púchov

Samuel Šimek and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A move Radoslav Tonev would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Radoslav Tonev is living that version at Púchov, and it tends to show in the first month.

The dugout

Lukáš Raběčný gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Dominik Petrovčín is still paying for one afternoon at Púchov

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout

When it matters, David Kosorič plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

The Samuel Gladiš story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Samuel Gladiš signs something — a contract at Púchov or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief