The Banik Ostrava Herald
Market19 Jun 2034
Diogo Brasido agrees terms with Opava
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Banik Ostrava people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market19 Jun 2034
Banik Ostrava say no — this time
The offer from Dukla Prague for Matěj Mikulenka 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.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2034
Banik Ostrava agree $930.0K for Oleksandr Petrenko
The clubs have shaken hands with Karviná; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market19 Jun 2034
Banik Ostrava spend $1.2M to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $1.2M has been paid because Stefan Jovanoski is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Market19 Jun 2034
Eyes on Tomáš Sirotek again
The phone has started ringing about Tomáš Sirotek again, and this time the name on the line is Sigma Olomouc. Banik Ostrava are listening politely and promising nothing.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2034
Kyrylo Fesiun turns down Banik Ostrava
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Dynamo Kyiv keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad19 Jun 2034
David Planka 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 Banik Ostrava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Jun 2034
A row about effort at Banik Ostrava
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matěj Mikulenka was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2034
Sparta Prague tell Banik Ostrava: Matěj Radosta is not for sale
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.
In brief
- Squad Arthur Ryan wants to go home
- Squad Banik Ostrava count the cost of losing David Sima
- The dugout Arthur Ryan gets it from the manager