The Šamorín Post
Squad30 Apr 2035
Youssouf Benhemada damages knee ligaments — 125 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 125 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad30 Apr 2035
Tempers go at Šamorín
Michal Domik 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.
Boardroom30 Apr 2035
No signings allowed at Šamorín
The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.
Squad30 Apr 2035
Kandet Diawara 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.
Squad30 Apr 2035
David Duris out for 17 days
The medical room confirms 17 days on the sidelines for David Duris, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout30 Apr 2035
Peter Sokol knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Peter Sokol trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Market The clock does Kandet Diawara’s negotiating for him
- The dugout David Duris has been promised minutes
- Market The shop window has Diogo Cunha in it