Marked for Matouš Trmal
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad17 May 2027
Robert Jukl breaks a bone — 106 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 106 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad17 May 2027
Tomáš Zlatohlávek 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.
Squad17 May 2027
Words exchanged at Teplice
Robert Jukl 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.
The dugout17 May 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Teplice told Matěj Pulkrab something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout17 May 2027
John Auta 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.
The dugout17 May 2027
Michal Bílek 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 Teplice, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad19 Apr 2027
Ladislav Krejčí 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.
Market19 Apr 2027
The Matouš Trmal talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Teplice know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Marek Beránek has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Teplice will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Mar 2027
Tomáš Zlatohlávek 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.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Jakub Jakubko
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Michal Bílek 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 Michal Bílek trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market22 Mar 2027
The Matouš Trmal talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Teplice know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Marek Beránek gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Marek Beránek is on it.
The terraces22 Mar 2027
Supporters make their feelings known about Matyáš Kozák
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Teplice would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market4 Jan 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Teplice
Ladislav Krejčí 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Teplice have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Transfer targets4 Jan 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 targets4 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Slovacko: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ladislav Takács, and the manager let it.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Michal Bílek is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
A defender's afternoon for Lukáš Mareček
Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Crisis
Market28 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Teplice can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Ladislav Krejčí 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Teplice
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tomáš Zlatohlávek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match26 Dec 2026
1‑3 to Sparta Prague, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Petr Kodeš, and the manager let it.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A goalkeeper’s error has no defender behind it to tidy it away. He knew before the ball crossed the line, the crowd knew a second later, and there is nothing anybody can say tonight.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Matouš Trmal'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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Martin Sima after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Steady
Match19 Dec 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Slovacko, and it could have been more.
Squad21 Dec 2026
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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market21 Dec 2026
“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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.92, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tomáš Zlatohlávek 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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michal Bílek, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Martin Sima, on a 3‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Teplice
Robert Jukl and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
7.70, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Teplice had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Match12 Dec 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Banik Ostrava leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout14 Dec 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.” Martin Sima chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Looking ahead14 Dec 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Matouš Trmal’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Teplice needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Crisis
Squad7 Dec 2026
6 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Matyáš Kozák and Teplice agree another 4 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tomáš Zlatohlávek 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
0‑2 to Bohemians 1905, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Teplice can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Pavel Svatek 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Michal Bílek'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.
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Upbeat
Squad30 Nov 2026
A one-man rearguard from Matouš Trmal
There were 8 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.79 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Teplice
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tomáš Zlatohlávek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Teplice
Michal Bílek 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
A 2‑0 win over Pardubice, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Petr Kodeš reaches 200 appearances
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match30 Nov 2026
Teplice at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 10, 20 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 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 Teplice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matouš Trmal, and the manager let it.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Matyáš Kozák was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.24. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Match21 Nov 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Jablonec leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout23 Nov 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.” Martin Sima chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
The terraces23 Nov 2026
Every touch weighed, every quote parsed, every mistake replayed. Some players grow into that; some are quietly finished by it; nobody knows which until afterwards.
Looking ahead23 Nov 2026
Pardubice next, and one man in the Teplice dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market23 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Daniel Mareček signs something — a contract at Teplice or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Shots: 8, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Upbeat
Match31 Oct 2026
Teplice win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. Slovan Liberec will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.74, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Three points for Teplice, 2‑1 the final word against Slovan Liberec in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
Teplice supporters have found a favourite in John Auta
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. John Auta 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michal Bílek, and the manager let it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Matěj Pulkrab makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Martin Sima could afford to be generous.
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Steady
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Teplice may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tomáš Zlatohlávek 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Viktoria Plzen left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matouš Trmal, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Martin Sima left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Slovan Liberec in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market26 Oct 2026
The Matyáš Kozák talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Teplice know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Michal Bílek 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 24 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Teplice are still strangers to each other
11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad12 Oct 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Teplice are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Lukáš Havel 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 Lukáš Havel trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Mlada Boleslav in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Tomáš Vlček story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Tomáš Vlček signs something — a contract at Teplice or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
When it matters, Jakub Hora plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market12 Oct 2026
“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.
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Uneasy
Match26 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 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 Teplice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tomáš Zlatohlávek 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Matěj Pulkrab. 2‑0 against Dukla Prague, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Matouš Trmal
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad28 Sep 2026
50 goals for the club, every one of them filed away in the memory of a supporter somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
7.61, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Teplice had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Martin Sima: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.
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Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Teplice's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Teplice has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Teplice
Ladislav Krejčí and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match19 Sep 2026
Daniel Mareček scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Zlin, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Matouš Trmal lets one through his hands
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 2‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jakub Jakubko, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Matouš Trmal 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 Matouš Trmal trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
Every touch weighed, every quote parsed, every mistake replayed. Some players grow into that; some are quietly finished by it; nobody knows which until afterwards.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Teplice's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Teplice has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ladislav Krejčí, 34, rolls back the years — 7.81
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.81 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Teplice
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tomáš Zlatohlávek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match12 Sep 2026
1‑3 to Hradec Králové, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Tomáš Vlček
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Teplice are still strangers to each other
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad14 Sep 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Matouš Trmal knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Matouš Trmal is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
Lukáš Havel gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Lukáš Havel has just signed for Teplice, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$1.5M on the table at Slavia Prague. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.5M — a club that wants Tomáš Vlček enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matouš Trmal commits to Teplice for another 4 years.
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 Teplice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
As if he never left: Lukáš Havel returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Lukáš Havel is a Teplice player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Transfer targets10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Antonin Brabec has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Antonin Schick is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ladislav Krejčí and Teplice agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ladislav Krejčí 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Matej Riznič ran the middle of the pitch — 6.72
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 13 combined actions and a mark of 6.72, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Teplice
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tomáš Zlatohlávek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Matouš Trmal 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“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; Teplice are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Daniel Mareček’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.