Two goals and a mark of 9.19 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.37 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
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.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Akintunde Azeez has just signed for Jablonec, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Michal Kohút 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.
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Pribram tried to reorganise, Jablonec did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Jablonec and Jihlava, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
$48.0K was the most the club would pay and Banik Ostrava were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.04 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 22 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Jablonec offered $740.0K; Dukla Prague 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.
Jan Chramosta was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The name of Antonín Růsek has come up in conversations Jablonec were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Jablonec training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Novák is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager makes an example of Filip Novák
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Jablonec scored in the 93th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
The chase for Michal Kohút ended with $5.1M changing hands and Banik Ostrava out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Jablonec have gone to Dukla Prague 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The name of Eduard Sobol has come up in conversations Jablonec were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
$48.0K was the most the club would pay and Sigma Olomouc were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Max Dean provided it, and the 7.95 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Jablonec and Banik Ostrava have settled on $55.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Astra have kept their man, and Jablonec go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 89th, and Sigma Olomouc spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Jablonec have gone to Banik Ostrava 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.
Add another name to the list: Lokomotiv Moscow have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Martin Cedidla. The answer from Jablonec has not changed — yet.
Jablonec offered $530.0K; Slovacko 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.
Jan Chramosta 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.
$51.0K on the table at Banik Ostrava. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slovacko have kept their man, and Jablonec go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Max Dean 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.
Two goals and a mark of 8.93 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
$1.8M was the most the club would pay and Banik Ostrava were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Martin Vydra 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.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrik Cerny is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Antonin Vydra has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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.
Jan Chramosta 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Junior have kept their man, and Jablonec go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
9 combined actions and 7.11. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
In brief
Squad8 new faces, and Jablonec are still learning each other