Viktor Nemec

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Slovan Bratislava U21
28 Aug 2036
Thursday
Process

Marked for Viktor Nemec

501 Edition

The Slovan Bratislava U21 Gazette

17 Mar 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Matej Trusa breaks a bone — 89 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 89 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Only the photograph left for Mikuláš Konečný

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mikuláš Konečný will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slovan Bratislava U21 the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Andrija Dimeski 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Slovan Bratislava U21

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

The dugout

Stefan Duris asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

Somebody is after Andrija Dimeski’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Andrija Dimeski suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Slovan Bratislava U21 have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

In brief

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494 Edition

The Slovan Bratislava U21 Gazette

28 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Slovan Bratislava U21 turn down DAC Dunajska Streda for Mikuláš Konečný

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Denis Duda asks to leave Slovan Bratislava U21

“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 ratings

No sign of nerves from Michal Lobotka at 20 — 7.72

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Michal Lobotka did not need any: 7.72, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Andrija Dimeski 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 terraces

One of their own: Michal Lobotka

He is 20 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.

Match

Dmitriy Lesnyak the difference as Slovan Bratislava U21 beat Šamorín

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dmitriy Lesnyak. 2‑0 against Šamorín, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market

Dmitriy Lesnyak attracts admirers

The name of Dmitriy Lesnyak has come up in conversations Slovan Bratislava U21 were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market

MFK Ruzomberok expected to open talks for Denis Duda

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Slovan Bratislava U21 will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Dmitriy Lesnyak at his very best

Marked 8.01. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Slovan Bratislava U21.

In brief

473 Edition

The Slovan Bratislava U21 Gazette

3 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Slovan Bratislava U21's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Slovan Bratislava U21 has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Denis Duda is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slovan Bratislava U21 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Andrija Dimeski 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Slovan Bratislava U21 against MSK Zilina B

0‑2 to MSK Zilina B, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Darius Cernych was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mikuláš Konečný

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mikuláš Konečný, and the manager let it.

Squad

Viktor Nemec in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Slovan Bratislava U21 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Stefan Duris makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Squad

Andrija Dimeski loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Andrija Dimeski. Slovan Bratislava U21 will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

In brief