Marked for David Jablonský
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market6 Sep 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Slovacko have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Squad6 Sep 2027
9 saves: Milan Heča was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match4 Sep 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Viktoria Plzen, and it could have been more.
Squad6 Sep 2027
David Puškáč takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Age has not caught David Puškáč yet — 9.30
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.30 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Slovacko close the window on a squad of their own making
25 in and 8 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Match4 Sep 2027
It had gone 8 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad6 Sep 2027
David Jablonský 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.
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Crisis
Match28 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Slovacko's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Slovacko has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 Aug 2027
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market30 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slovacko can pretend not to have heard.
Market30 Aug 2027
FK Senica come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Slovacko did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
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Market30 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Slovacko have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad30 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Slovacko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Slovacko
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marek Havlík was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Uneasy
Match18 Aug 2027
Slovacko bow out of the cup
Slovan Liberec go through and Slovacko go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market23 Aug 2027
“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.
Match21 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Slovacko's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Slovacko has to find a result from somewhere.
Market23 Aug 2027
Slovacko say no — this time
The offer from Banik Ostrava for Andrej Stojčevski 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.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Ousman Ceesay: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Slovacko have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.96, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Marek Havlík 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at Slovacko training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lukáš Vorlický 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market16 Aug 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Slovacko people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market16 Aug 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Slovacko, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match14 Aug 2027
5 matches without a win for Slovacko
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Slovacko are no longer polite ones.
Match14 Aug 2027
5 matches without a goal for Slovacko
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Slovacko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Slovacko training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marek Havlík 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.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
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.
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Crisis
Market26 Jul 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Plateau United waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Slovacko is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match24 Jul 2027
Nowhere to hide for Slovacko
0‑3 against Slavia Prague, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market26 Jul 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slovacko can pretend not to have heard.
Squad26 Jul 2027
8 saves: Milan Heča 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.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Slovacko
David Jablonský and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Slovacko
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marek Havlík was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sparta Prague have kept their man, and Slovacko go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
“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.
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Uneasy
Market5 Jul 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Slovacko have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Slovacko
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Slovacko is running low.
Market5 Jul 2027
“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.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Everything agreed with Mlada Boleslav, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad5 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Slovacko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Marek Havlík 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Abdulrafiu Taiwo has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Market5 Jul 2027
Jonathan Mulder comes back from a loan that worked
17 appearances and 0 goals away from here, and a player the manager did not have in August. Loans are sent out hoping for exactly this and most of them do not deliver it.
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Uneasy
Market21 Jun 2027
“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.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Slovacko may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Marek Havlík 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 Slovacko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Alexandr Urban is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Slovacko
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michal Trávník was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Slovacko are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
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.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Slovan Liberec have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
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Uneasy
The terraces31 May 2027
The mood at Zlin has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad31 May 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market31 May 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zlin, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom31 May 2027
Pressure builds in the Zlin boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad31 May 2027
Words exchanged at Zlin
Hamdi Akujobi 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.
Squad31 May 2027
Words at Zlin training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Antonín Křapka 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.
Boardroom31 May 2027
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Lukáš Neufus has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Zlin have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
The dugout31 May 2027
David Machalík 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 Zlin, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout31 May 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Uneasy
Squad17 May 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 101 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market17 May 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zlin, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad17 May 2027
Words at Zlin training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Antonín Křapka 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.
Squad17 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zlin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout17 May 2027
“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.
Squad17 May 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Zlin can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
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Squad10 May 2027
111 days out for Václav Ondřejka after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Zlin will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match10 May 2027
Zlin are in real trouble now
Position 15, 9 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market10 May 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Zlin can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 May 2027
Tempers go at Zlin
Hamdi Akujobi 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Antonín Křapka 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.
Squad10 May 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” André Lopes and Zlin agree another 3 years.
The dugout10 May 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Zlin, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market10 May 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Michal Fukala signs something — a contract at Zlin or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout10 May 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Zlin. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Squad3 May 2027
119 days out for Václav Ondřejka after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Zlin will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The terraces3 May 2027
The mood at Zlin has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market3 May 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Zlin can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout3 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Zlin may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom3 May 2027
Pressure builds in the Zlin boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad3 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zlin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Zlin training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michal Cupák 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.
Squad3 May 2027
A muscle injury and 15 days out for Miloš Kopečný
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Zlin will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Boardroom3 May 2027
$4.3M taken back off the Zlin table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
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Squad12 Apr 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 141 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match12 Apr 2027
Every point is an argument now for Zlin
Position 15 and 9 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market12 Apr 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zlin, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zlin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at Zlin training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michal Cupák 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.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Antonín Křapka 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 Antonín Křapka trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market12 Apr 2027
The name of Michal Fukala keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Zlin say nothing, which says plenty.
Market12 Apr 2027
Zlin and André Lopes are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The table is being checked before the results are in, which is always the tell. Nobody at Zlin says the word and every senior player in the building is thinking it.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Apr 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 149 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market5 Apr 2027
“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.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Adam Gaži: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Zlin have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Zlin
Stanislav Dostál and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Antonín Křapka 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Market5 Apr 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Tomáš Poznar 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 Tomáš Poznar trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Zlin. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Mar 2027
334 appearances across 19 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Market8 Mar 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zlin, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Zlin may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Antonín Křapka and Zlin agree another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Zlin
Michal Fukala and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Zlin
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Antonín Křapka was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“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.
Market8 Mar 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Zlin, another week without a signature from Zvonimir Katalinić.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Mar 2027
334 appearances across 19 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Zlin know what they have.
Market1 Mar 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zlin, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Zlin may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Zlin know it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Zlin
Antonín Křapka 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Zlin
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anthony Uzodimma was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“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.
Market1 Mar 2027
No place for Adam Gaži in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Adam Gaži has his answer from Zlin; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and David Jablonský trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Match6 Feb 2027
13 matches without a win for Zlin
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Zlin are no longer polite ones.
Market8 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Zlin can pretend not to have heard.
Match6 Feb 2027
7 matches without a goal for Zlin
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 7 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match6 Feb 2027
Zlin leaking at the back
5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Zlin
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anthony Uzodimma was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Teplice have kept their man, and Zlin go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Zlin
Lawrence Nicholas 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anthony Uzodimma, and the manager let it.
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Player ratings
Marián Pišoja runs at them all day
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
No place in the plan for Michal Cupák
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 55 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
The drought breaks for Zlin
15 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Jihlava were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Jakub Pešek, 33, rolls back the years — 8.01
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.01 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Zlin
Antonín Křapka 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Zlin
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anthony Uzodimma was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match7 Nov 2026
Jihlava made Zlin work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Looking ahead9 Nov 2026
Zlin face Pribram in the game that matters most
Two sides from the bottom of the table, three points, and an afternoon that will be described afterwards as a relegation decider by whoever loses it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to David Jablonský, and the manager let it.
In brief
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Match
Zlin at the halfway mark
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Anthony Uzodimma knocks on the manager’s door
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Crisis
Match15 Aug 2026
Nowhere to hide for Zlin
0‑5 against Slavia Prague, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Zlin
Antonín Křapka 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
40 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$31.0K on the table at Viktoria Plzen. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Zlin
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anthony Uzodimma was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Banik Ostrava have kept their man, and Zlin go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anthony Uzodimma, and the manager let it.
In brief
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Boardroom
Nobody left the Zlin dressing room in a hurry
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Player ratings
Tom Ulbrich was unplayable
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict