Jiri Cerny

Central Defender - Slavia Prague B
17 Apr 2036
Thursday
Process

Marked for Jiri Cerny

503 Edition

The Slavia Prague B Chronicle

17 Mar 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Slavia Prague B are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 61 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Slavia Prague B

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Squad

A falling-out at Slavia Prague B

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

Market

Samuel Šigut runs his contract down

2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Slavia Prague B money.

Squad

Competition arrives for Josh Tomlinson

A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Slavia Prague B have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Jiri Cerny

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

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501 Edition

The Slavia Prague B Chronicle

3 Mar 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Slavia Prague B finish in position 2

61 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Player ratings

Jan Schick, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.89

A mark of 7.89 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Tempers go at Slavia Prague B

Samuel Šigut 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.

Match

Isaac Gnafoua sends Slavia Prague B past Vlašim

It finished 2‑1, and it was Isaac Gnafoua’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Slavia Prague B.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Jan Schick

At 18 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

Isaac Gnafoua was the difference for Slavia Prague B

Marked 7.94. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Jiri Cerny

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Jiri Cerny has come out of that comparison in the side, and Slavia Prague B have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Squad

Samuel Šigut loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Samuel Šigut. Slavia Prague B will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

The dugout

The plan did not have a place for Samuel Šigut

Nobody at Slavia Prague B is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

In brief

489 Edition

The Slavia Prague B Chronicle

10 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Fabio Ferraro is on his way

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

Player ratings

Martin Cerny, 20, steals the show — 7.65

Marked 7.65 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Match

Slavia Prague B find a way past Chrudim

Chrudim made Slavia Prague B work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Bradley Lévy 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 Slavia Prague B this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

Slavia Prague B supporters have found a favourite in Adam Jankto

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Adam Jankto has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

Adam Jankto takes the honours

Marked 7.66 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Slavia Prague B had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

Ondrej Coufal has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Slavia Prague B will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Market

Talks stall between Slavia Prague B and Bradley Lévy

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout

Ondrej Coufal knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Slavia Prague B, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

485 Edition

The Slavia Prague B Chronicle

12 Nov 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Only the photograph left for Fabio Ferraro

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Fabio Ferraro will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slavia Prague B the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Matija Gočmanac keeps Slavia Prague B in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Vintage Samuel Šigut — 8.13

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.13, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Bradley Lévy 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 Slavia Prague B this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Daniel Schick

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Martin Cerny the difference as Slavia Prague B beat Vlašim

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

Match

Slavia Prague B make home a hard place to visit

8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Match

Slavia Prague B at the halfway mark

Half the programme played, position 1, 34 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.

Player ratings

Daniel Schick beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief