The Slavia Prague Gazette
Squad29 Dec 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Schick
18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Slavia Prague lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market29 Dec 2031
John Mercado asks to leave Slavia Prague
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings29 Dec 2031
Jiří Panoš scores twice — 8.29
Two goals and a mark of 8.29 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market29 Dec 2031
Arbnor Mucolli is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slavia Prague is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match27 Dec 2031
Slavia Prague cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad29 Dec 2031
Tempers go at Slavia Prague
Jiří Panoš 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.
Match27 Dec 2031
Slavia Prague get the job done against Pardubice
A 3‑1 win over Pardubice, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout29 Dec 2031
The manager makes an example of Ibrahim Aliyu
“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.
The dugout29 Dec 2031
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Lukas Darida, on a 3‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
In brief
- The dugout Jiří Panoš gets picked when it counts
- Loan watch Nobody is scoring past Stefan Jovanoski at Viktoria Plzen
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Jan Paluska