Marked for Patrick Kpozo
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Uneasy
Match19 Dec 2026
The 86th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Daniel Mareček decided nobody was going anywhere. Zlin had no time left to answer.
Match19 Dec 2026
It had gone 7 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Dec 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Daniel Mareček’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Teplice.
Squad21 Dec 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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Matěj Pulkrab was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.75. 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Jaroslav Harušťák 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
A performance of 8.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.05 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Banik Ostrava have gone to FK Senica with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad17 Aug 2026
David Pavelka 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Jablonec pay $810.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
No deal for Tomáš Digaňa at that price
Banik Ostrava offered $420.0K; Sigma Olomouc said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$44.0K 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Teplice pay $380.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 12 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 121 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $460.7K — a club that wants Tomáš Digaňa enough to be asked twice.
Market17 Aug 2026
The fee is $380.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Banik Ostrava drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$50.0K on the table at Sigma Olomouc. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Teplice spend $380.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $380.0K for Patrick Kpozo, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
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 Teplice go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match15 Aug 2026
Viktoria Plzen left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Upbeat
Market10 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Banik Ostrava have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.85 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Vojtěch Vorel gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Vojtěch Vorel has just signed for Banik Ostrava, and for once the answer mattered.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Jakub Pira at 18 — 8.29
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jakub Pira did not need any: 8.29, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Banik Ostrava have gone to Viktoria Plzen with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer from Teplice for David Látal 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Banik Ostrava asked and Sparta Prague said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Michal Kohút has come up in conversations Banik Ostrava were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $166.9K — a club that wants Jakub Martinec enough to be asked twice.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Ladislav Takács out for 129 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Teplice will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A brace, and Matěj Pulkrab takes the afternoon — 9.15
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Matěj Pulkrab provided it, and the 9.15 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Teplice sell a favourite for $820.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Jan Fortelný was one of the reasons people came, and $820.0K does not replace that by itself.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Banik Ostrava, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$400.0K on the table at Sigma Olomouc. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matouš Trmal commits to Teplice for another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
Jan Fortelný has left for Slavia Prague in a $820.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
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.
Match8 Aug 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Teplice and Slovacko in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
Flora come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Banik Ostrava did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Václav Jurečka and Banik Ostrava agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Michal Frydrych for 17 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Banik Ostrava will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Michal Kohút and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Banik Ostrava asked and Astra said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
18 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Václav Jurečka’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vlasiy Sinyavskiy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 7.65. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.