Marked for Robert Pušaver
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Market7 Oct 2030
“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 The request is on a desk at Spartak Myjava, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match5 Oct 2030
No end in sight to Spartak Myjava's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Spartak Myjava has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad7 Oct 2030
Jhon Cabal 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 Spartak Myjava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings7 Oct 2030
Nobody could get near Jhon Cabal
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Oct 2030
“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.
Match5 Oct 2030
MSK Zilina left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Oct 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sébastien Marty and Spartak Myjava agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom7 Oct 2030
Wages eat 94% of everything Spartak Myjava earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Boardroom7 Oct 2030
Spartak Myjava sign a deal worth $25.0K a year
Commercial news is the news nobody sings about and everything else is paid for with. The board will call it a partnership; the accountants will call it the difference between this squad and a smaller one.
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Match27 Jul 2030
13 matches without a win for Spartak Myjava
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Spartak Myjava are no longer polite ones.
Market29 Jul 2030
Only the photograph left for Filip Buchel
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Filip Buchel will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Spartak Myjava the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad29 Jul 2030
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Diaed de Alba and Spartak Myjava agree another 4 years.
Squad29 Jul 2030
Jhon Cabal 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 Spartak Myjava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match27 Jul 2030
DAC Dunajska Streda left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad29 Jul 2030
51 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad29 Jul 2030
José Cotrina 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 ratings29 Jul 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.48, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings29 Jul 2030
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Market1 Jul 2030
Filip Buchel has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Spartak Myjava they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad1 Jul 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Spartak Myjava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Jul 2030
79 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad1 Jul 2030
Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.
Squad1 Jul 2030
Tempers went at Spartak Myjava this week. Nothing a hard session and a quiet word cannot repair, though the story got out all the same.
Market1 Jul 2030
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Robert Pušaver may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Market3 Jun 2030
Only the photograph left for Martin Šulek
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Martin Šulek will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Spartak Myjava the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market3 Jun 2030
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Spartak Myjava can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Jun 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” José Cotrina and Spartak Myjava agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Jun 2030
Jhon Cabal 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 Spartak Myjava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Jun 2030
The medical room confirms 107 days on the sidelines for Matej Stanek, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market3 Jun 2030
1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Spartak Myjava money.
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Match1 Apr 2030
Every point is an argument now for Spartak Myjava
Position 11 and 14 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.
Market1 Apr 2030
“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 Spartak Myjava, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 Apr 2030
Martin Šulek 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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Boardroom25 Mar 2030
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Spartak Myjava
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad25 Mar 2030
Martin Šulek 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 Spartak Myjava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Mar 2030
Yahir Daer 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.
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Match7 Jan 2030
14 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market7 Jan 2030
Filip Buchel hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Spartak Myjava can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Jan 2030
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Spartak Myjava have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad7 Jan 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jean Pierre Valdivia and Spartak Myjava agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Jan 2030
Jiří Januška 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.
Squad7 Jan 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandros Parras, and the manager let it.
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Match8 Dec 2029
10 matches without a win for Spartak Myjava
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Spartak Myjava are no longer polite ones.
Match10 Dec 2029
Position 11, 13 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.
Squad10 Dec 2029
Martin Šulek 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 Spartak Myjava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Dec 2029
1‑2 to MFK Ruzomberok, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad10 Dec 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gabriel Halabrín, and the manager let it.
Player ratings10 Dec 2029
A performance of 8.55 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad10 Dec 2029
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Robert Pušaver and Spartak Myjava agree another 1 years.
Squad10 Dec 2029
Defences have started doubling up on Diaed de Alba
7 goals and a season average of 7.24 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings10 Dec 2029
Jhon Cabal runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Squad5 Nov 2029
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Boardroom5 Nov 2029
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Spartak Myjava is running low.
Match3 Nov 2029
5 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.
Squad5 Nov 2029
Martin Šulek 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.
Squad5 Nov 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Felipe Barrientos, and the manager let it.
Match3 Nov 2029
0‑1 to AS Trencin, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad5 Nov 2029
19 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Boardroom5 Nov 2029
96% of the income goes out in wages at Spartak Myjava
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings5 Nov 2029
Jhon Cabal runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Squad29 Oct 2029
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.
Player ratings29 Oct 2029
Jhon Cabal runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad29 Oct 2029
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Spartak Myjava may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match27 Oct 2029
4 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.
Squad29 Oct 2029
Martin Šulek 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 Spartak Myjava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match27 Oct 2029
0‑2 to Podbrezova, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Uneasy
Market24 Sep 2029
Only the photograph left for Martin Šulek
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Martin Šulek will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Spartak Myjava the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings24 Sep 2029
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings24 Sep 2029
A performance of 9.27 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad24 Sep 2029
Hristo Popadiyn 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.
Match22 Sep 2029
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad24 Sep 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Robert Pušaver, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Match25 Aug 2029
25 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.
Squad27 Aug 2029
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match25 Aug 2029
A 1‑4 beating by Slovan Bratislava was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match22 Aug 2029
Out, 1‑1 to AS Trencin, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market27 Aug 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Spartak Myjava is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Martin Šulek 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.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Martin Šulek 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 ratings27 Aug 2029
Marked 8.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
Jhon Cabal runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Match28 Jul 2029
No end in sight to Spartak Myjava's wait for a win
20 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Spartak Myjava has to find a result from somewhere.
Market30 Jul 2029
Martin Šulek has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Spartak Myjava they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad30 Jul 2029
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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Martin Šulek 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.
Market30 Jul 2029
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Spartak Myjava have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match28 Jul 2029
DAC Dunajska Streda left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad30 Jul 2029
The manager makes an example of Martin Šulek
“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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
The medical room confirms 18 days on the sidelines for Serob Grigoryan, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings30 Jul 2029
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Squad4 Jun 2029
“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 Spartak Myjava know it.
Squad4 Jun 2029
Martin Šulek 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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Market12 Feb 2029
“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 Spartak Myjava, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Feb 2029
158 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Martin Šulek 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 Spartak Myjava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Boardroom29 Jan 2029
Pressure builds in the Spartak Myjava boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad29 Jan 2029
“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 Spartak Myjava know it.
Squad29 Jan 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Spartak Myjava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Jan 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to José Cotrina, and the manager let it.
Squad29 Jan 2029
25 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market29 Jan 2029
Daniel Sucic is 17, and Spartak Myjava have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
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Uneasy
Boardroom1 Jan 2029
Pressure builds in the Spartak Myjava boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad1 Jan 2029
38 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Martin Šulek 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 Spartak Myjava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.