Marked for Jan Hanuš
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
8 saves: Jan Hanuš was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Jablonec
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Eduard Sobol 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Filip Novák gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Jablonec
9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Sigma Olomouc leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Jiri Cerny was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Jablonec dressing room was either.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Nassim Innocenti's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Jablonec's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Jablonec has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 7.98. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Jan Hanuš gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Jan Fortelný 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Slovan Liberec leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Jablonec
Something was said to Lamin Jawo and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Jiri Cerny chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.
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Upbeat
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.21, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market31 Aug 2026
Jablonec say no — this time
The offer from Vanspor for Lamin Jawo 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.82, and nobody on the pitch better.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Jablonec asked and Pardubice said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match29 Aug 2026
Jablonec make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Jablonec have 3 straight wins of it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Three points for Jablonec, 3‑1 the final word against Zlin in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The game went through Eduard Sobol — 7.83
Marked 7.83 on 12 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
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Squad
A falling-out at Jablonec
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Squad
Words at Jablonec training over how hard people work
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Squad
Jablonec are still strangers to each other
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Crisis
Market17 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Jablonec did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from Jan Hanuš
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market17 Aug 2026
The shirt still fits. Jan Fortelný is back at Jablonec, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Jablonec
Sebastian Nebyla and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match15 Aug 2026
Slavia Prague left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
30 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Richard Sedláček, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Jablonec training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jan Fortelný is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
The manager has not finished forgetting Dušan Pavlović's mistake
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Player ratings
Dušan Pavlović never got going
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
7 saves: Jan Hanuš was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The deal with Teplice is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Filip Zorvan and Jablonec agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cádiz have kept their man, and Jablonec go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Matej Malenšek has come up in conversations Jablonec were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match8 Aug 2026
Sparta Prague left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Schick has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.