Jablonec U20

31 Aug 2027
Tuesday
Process
57 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Lawal Muritala: 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.” Jablonec have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Jablonec say no — this time

The offer from Dukla Prague for Nassim Innocenti 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.

Player ratings

Vintage Jan Chramosta — 7.95

At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.95, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market

Nelson Okeke asks to leave Jablonec

“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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Abdullahi Shehu

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Abdullahi Shehu will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Jablonec the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Jablonec

Jan Chramosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Tomáš Břečka comes home

The shirt still fits. Tomáš Břečka is back at Jablonec, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Saidou Alioum

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nemanja Tekijaški was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

Back issues
56 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The small margins put Jablonec out

Out, 2‑3 to Mlada Boleslav, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Match

Mlada Boleslav punish Jablonec for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Matěj Polidar will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Jablonec escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Match

Jablonec leaking at the back

8 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.

The dugout

Efe Lucky keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Jablonec may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Jiří Texl 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 Jablonec can pretend not to have heard.

Match

The wait goes on for Jablonec

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.

Squad

Jan Chramosta 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 Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Dukla Prague watching Nassim Innocenti

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Jablonec have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Words at Jablonec training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nemanja Tekijaški 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

55 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Hugo Ahl out for 16 days

16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Jablonec lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Klemen Mihelak

There were 9 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.

The dugout

Taofeek Otaniyi: 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.” Jablonec have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Ebrima Singhateh runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Jablonec

6 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Squad

Tempers go at Jablonec

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.

Match

6 goals as Jablonec and Slovan Liberec go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Jablonec and Slovan Liberec, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Match

A bad afternoon for Jablonec against Slovan Liberec

2‑4 to Slovan Liberec, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nemanja Tekijaški was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

54 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Hugo Ahl out for 23 days

23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Jablonec lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Chastening afternoon for Jablonec

A 1‑4 beating by Viktoria Plzen was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Klemen Mihelak

There were 6 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.

The dugout

Jiří Texl: 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.” Jablonec have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at Jablonec

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.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Jablonec

5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Squad

Nemanja Tekijaški 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 dugout

Nemanja Tekijaški 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.

Boardroom

Inquest at Jablonec

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

In brief

53 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Hugo Ahl damages knee ligaments — 31 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 31 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.

Player ratings

Both of them Jan Chramosta's — 9.06

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.06, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Jan Hanuš: 10 seasons and counting

347 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Jablonec know exactly what they have.

Market

Abdullahi Shehu has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Jablonec they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

A falling-out at Jablonec

Jan Chramosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Jan Chramosta the difference as Jablonec beat Slovacko

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jan Chramosta. 3‑2 against Slovacko, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Nemanja Tekijaški 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 ratings

Nobody could get near Ebrima Singhateh

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Jablonec are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

In brief

52 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

A brace, and Jan Chramosta takes the afternoon — 8.97

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jan Chramosta provided it, and the 8.97 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

The dugout

Richard Sedláček keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Jablonec may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Caelan Avenell 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 Jablonec can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Yoël van den Ban will not be coming to Jablonec

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at AZ is saying, and nobody at Jablonec is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Jan Chramosta 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 Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Jan Chramosta the difference as Jablonec beat Mlada Boleslav

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jan Chramosta. 3‑2 against Mlada Boleslav, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nemanja Tekijaški was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Nobody wins at Jablonec

9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Daniel Adu-Adjei

Jablonec asked and HNK Rijeka said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

51 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Lamin Jawo: 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.” Jablonec have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Jablonec

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nemanja Tekijaški was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Jablonec rebuffed over Silas Ostrzinski

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Borussia Dortmund have kept their man, and Jablonec go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Boardroom

Jablonec are making the ground bigger

Work is signed off on a capacity of 4112. It is the sort of decision a club is judged on twenty years later, by people who were not there when it was taken.

The dugout

Richard Sedláček 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.

Transfer targets

Jablonec ask about Yoël van den Ban

A loan enquiry to AZ: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout

Ebrima Singhateh 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 Ebrima Singhateh is on it.

The dugout

Ebrima Singhateh 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 Ebrima Singhateh trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

50 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Too dear: Jablonec walk away from Joao Grimaldo

$1.6M was the most the club would pay and Sparta Prague 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.

Transfer targets

Valerio Crespi turns down Jablonec

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Avellino keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Words exchanged at Jablonec

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.

Squad

Saidou Alioum signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Saidou Alioum commits to Jablonec for another 4 years.

Squad

Words at Jablonec training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nemanja Tekijaški 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 targets

Hajduk Split tell Jablonec: Stefan Vukić is not for sale

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.

Market

One of our own: Petr Soucek joins the Jablonec first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Petr Soucek is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Antonin Darida joins the Jablonec first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Antonin Darida is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Martin Vydra joins the Jablonec first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Martin Vydra is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

49 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Dušan Pavlović damages knee ligaments — 16 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 16 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.

Market

Filip Novák 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 Jablonec can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Gbolagade Adelowo keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Jablonec may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Transfer targets

An offer of $1.1M for Joao Grimaldo

Jablonec have gone to Sparta 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.

Squad

Jablonec count the cost of losing Jan Hanuš

25 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Transfer targets

Mohamed Konaté turns down Jablonec

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Dinamo Moscow keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Market

Abdullahi Shehu has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Jablonec they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

A falling-out at Jablonec

Jan Chramosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Nemanja Tekijaški 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.

In brief

48 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Dušan Pavlović out for 23 days

23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Jablonec lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Stanley Amuzie puts it in writing

“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 Jablonec, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

The step up is real for Efe Lucky

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Jan Chramosta 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 Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Late improvement for Ebrima Singhateh

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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Daniel Adu-Adjei

Jablonec asked and HNK Rijeka said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

Lamin Jawo 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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Mohamed Konaté is in the works

Jablonec have made the call to Dinamo Moscow. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market

Sparta Prague expected to open talks for Matej Malenšek

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Jablonec will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

47 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dušan Pavlović

30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Jablonec lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Garang Kuol is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Filip Zorvan pulls a muscle — 14 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad

Tempers go at Jablonec

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.

Transfer targets

Jablonec rebuffed over Emre Ünüvar

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ajax have kept their man, and Jablonec go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

Samuel Lavrinčík 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.

Transfer targets

Jablonec try to borrow Daniel Adu-Adjei

HNK Rijeka 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.

The dugout

Ebrima Singhateh has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Jablonec 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.

The dugout

Filip Novák 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 Jablonec, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

46 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Jiri Masopust out for 16 days

16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Jablonec lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Taofeek Otaniyi asks to leave Jablonec

“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 dugout

Stanley Amuzie keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Jablonec may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Bendegúz Kovács rejects the move

Jablonec had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at AZ, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Words exchanged at Jablonec

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eduard Sobol was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Sturm Graz tell Jablonec: Michael Krmenčík is not for sale

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.

Squad

Stanley Amuzie pulls a muscle — 15 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Transfer targets

Jablonec ask about Kaio Eduardo

A loan enquiry to Basel: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

45 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Jiri Masopust out for 24 days

24 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Jablonec lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

David Nykrín 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 Jablonec can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Abdullahi Shehu signs for Slovacko while still at Jablonec

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Abdullahi Shehu has agreed terms with Slovacko for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Market

Abdullahi Shehu is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Jablonec is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at Jablonec

Jan Chramosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Jablonec training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nemanja Tekijaški 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 targets

Dinamo Moscow tell Jablonec: Mohamed Konaté is not for sale

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.

The dugout

Sebastian Nebyla 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.

Transfer targets

Jablonec try to borrow Michael Krmenčík

Sturm Graz 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.

In brief

44 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Jiri Masopust out for 32 days

32 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Jablonec lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Jablonec count the cost of losing Jan Chramosta

30 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Jan Chramosta 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 Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Nemanja Tekijaški 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 dugout

Ebrima Singhateh 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 Jablonec, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Matěj Polidar returns from a loan that gave him nothing

2 appearances and 1 goals is not a season, it is a year somebody has lost. Whether that is his fault, the borrowing club's or the people who arranged it is the argument the next few weeks will have.

In brief

43 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Nelson Okeke keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Jablonec may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Bendegúz Kovács is the real thing at 20

A season average of 7.01 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Jablonec know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad

Tempers go at Jablonec

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.

Squad

Eduard Sobol 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.

Squad

Dušan Pavlović stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Dušan Pavlović and Jablonec agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Lawal Muritala

“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.

In brief

42 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Taofeek Otaniyi 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 Jablonec can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at Jablonec

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nemanja Tekijaški was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Dušan Pavlović

“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 dugout

Jan Hanuš 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 Jan Hanuš is on it.

The dugout

A door opens for Samuel Lavrinčík

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.

In brief

41 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Jablonec

Jan Chramosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Nemanja Tekijaški 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Lamin Jawo

“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 dugout

Garang Kuol has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Jablonec 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.

Market

Ebrima Singhateh linked with a move away

The name of Ebrima Singhateh keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Jablonec say nothing, which says plenty.

Match

Jablonec have something to play for

Position 5 on 50 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.

The dugout

The manager makes Richard Sedláček a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Jablonec. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

The dugout

Dušan Pavlović 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 Dušan Pavlović trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

Filip Zorvan has started doing his badges

“I watch sessions differently now. I catch myself thinking about why we are doing the drill.” At 31 that is how nearly every man in a dugout started.

In brief

40 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Jan Chramosta 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 Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Eduard Sobol 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 dugout

Samuel Lavrinčík 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.

Squad

Sebastian Nebyla loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Sebastian Nebyla. Jablonec will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

The dugout

Michalis Kosidis 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 Michalis Kosidis is on it.

Market

Still no ink between Jablonec and Gbolagade Adelowo

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Jablonec, another week without a signature from Gbolagade Adelowo.

In brief

39 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Michalis Kosidis says Jablonec went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Bendegúz Kovács is the real thing at 20

A season average of 7.01 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Jablonec know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad

Tempers go at Jablonec

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.

Squad

Nemanja Tekijaški 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 dugout

Filip Novák 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 dugout

Ebrima Singhateh has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Jablonec 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.

In brief

38 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Samuel Lavrinčík: 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.” Jablonec have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Sebastian Nebyla signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sebastian Nebyla and Jablonec agree another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Jablonec

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.

Squad

Nemanja Tekijaški 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.

Market

Taofeek Otaniyi told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Taofeek Otaniyi has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Jablonec.

The dugout

Jan Hanuš 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 Jan Hanuš is on it.

The dugout

Jan Chramosta asks for a word with the manager

“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.

Squad

Ebrima Singhateh wants to know why he earns less

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Jablonec have no good answer.

The dugout

A door opens for Lamin Jawo

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.

In brief

37 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Jan Chramosta 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 Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Eduard Sobol 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 dugout

Ebrima Singhateh 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 Jablonec, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

When it matters, Garang Kuol 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Klemen Mihelak

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Klemen Mihelak, and the manager let it.

Market

The Ebrima Singhateh story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ebrima Singhateh signs something — a contract at Jablonec or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Match

Jablonec have something to play for

Position 5 on 50 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.

The dugout

The manager makes Lawal Muritala a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Jablonec. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Squad

Dominik Hollý back in training

A welcome sight on the training pitch: Dominik Hollý has come through recovery and is pushing for a place again.

In brief

36 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Jablonec

Jan Chramosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Jablonec training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nemanja Tekijaški 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 dugout

No hiding place for Samuel Lavrinčík

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samuel Lavrinčík, and the manager let it.

Squad

Jiří Texl is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Jiří Texl has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Squad

The armband comes off Jan Chramosta

Jablonec will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

The dugout

Michalis Kosidis 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 Michalis Kosidis is on it.

In brief

35 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

At 20, Bendegúz Kovács is already the best thing here

An average of 7.01 in a first team he is several years too young for. Jablonec have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Squad

Words exchanged at Jablonec

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.

Squad

Nemanja Tekijaški 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Lamin Jawo

“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 dugout

Ebrima Singhateh has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Jablonec 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.

The dugout

Richard Sedláček asks for a word with the manager

“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.

In brief

34 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Jablonec

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eduard Sobol was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Filip Novák

“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.

Squad

Matej Malenšek stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Matej Malenšek and Jablonec agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

When it matters, Jan Hanuš 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.

Squad

Country calls for Saidou Alioum

He goes off to be somebody else’s player for a fortnight. Jablonec lose him for the window and would like him returned in the condition he left.

In brief

33 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Abdullahi Shehu breaks a bone — 17 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Jan Chramosta 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 Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Jablonec training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nemanja Tekijaški 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 dugout

Efe Lucky 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 dugout

Garang Kuol has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Jablonec 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.

The dugout

Filip Novák 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 Filip Novák trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The Ebrima Singhateh story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ebrima Singhateh signs something — a contract at Jablonec or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Squad

Michalis Kosidis remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Jablonec would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

Match

Continental football is in reach for Jablonec

50 points from position 5. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.

In brief

32 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Abdullahi Shehu breaks a bone — 24 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Jan Chramosta signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jan Chramosta commits to Jablonec for another 2 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Jablonec

Jan Chramosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Jablonec training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nemanja Tekijaški 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.

Market

Lukas Sykora steps up from the Jablonec academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Lukas Sykora 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.

Market

One of our own: Filip Barak joins the Jablonec first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Filip Barak is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

31 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

32 days out for Abdullahi Shehu after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Jablonec will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Bendegúz Kovács is the real thing at 19

A season average of 7.01 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Jablonec know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad

Words exchanged at Jablonec

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.

Squad

Eduard Sobol 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Ebrima Singhateh

“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 dugout

When it matters, Ebrima Singhateh 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.

In brief

30 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Jablonec out of the cup

Banik Ostrava ended it 0‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad

Abdullahi Shehu breaks a bone — 40 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 40 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vakhtang Chanturishvili

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Jablonec

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.

Squad

Nemanja Tekijaški 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 dugout

No hiding place for Jan Hanuš

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jan Hanuš, and the manager let it.

Squad

Lamin Jawo is carrying Jablonec

11 goals and a season average of 7.22. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

The dugout

Antonin Stanek faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Antonin Stanek after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

Jan Hanuš 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 Jan Hanuš is on it.

In brief

29 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

47 days out for Abdullahi Shehu after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Jablonec will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The dugout

Filip Novák keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Jablonec may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Jan Chramosta 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 Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nemanja Tekijaški was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Lamin Jawo 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 dugout

Jablonec keep their word to Lamin Jawo

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

The dugout

Jan Chramosta 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 Jan Chramosta trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Match

Jablonec have something to play for

Position 5 on 50 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.

Market

The Ebrima Singhateh story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ebrima Singhateh signs something — a contract at Jablonec or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

28 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Saidou Alioum runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 52. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Abdullahi Shehu breaks a bone — 55 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 55 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Taofeek Otaniyi puts it in writing

“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 Jablonec, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Jan Chramosta

19 goals and a season average of 7.40 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

The dugout

Nelson Okeke: 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.” Jablonec have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets

Diego Callai will not be coming to Jablonec

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Sporting CP is saying, and nobody at Jablonec is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Eduard Sobol stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Eduard Sobol and Jablonec agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Jablonec

Jan Chramosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Jablonec come up short against Teplice

Teplice left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

27 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A fracture rules Abdullahi Shehu out for 63 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Jablonec will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Bendegúz Kovács, 19, steals the show — 8.44

Marked 8.44 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 3 in, 2 out at Jablonec

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 3 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

Remember the name: Bendegúz Kovács

He is 19, he is averaging 7.02, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Squad

Words exchanged at Jablonec

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nemanja Tekijaški was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Vakhtang Chanturishvili was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. 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.

Transfer targets

Jablonec rebuffed over Peter Itodo

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Metalist have kept their man, and Jablonec go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Bendegúz Kovács

At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

26 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Bendegúz Kovács scores twice — 9.03

Two goals and a mark of 9.03 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Abdullahi Shehu breaks a bone — 70 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 70 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Namory Cissé

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Jablonec have done the hard part with Dukla Prague, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Tempers go at Jablonec

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.

Player ratings

Saidou Alioum runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A move Caelan Avenell would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Caelan Avenell is living that version at Jablonec, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nemanja Tekijaški was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Jablonec rebuffed over Rafael Nel

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sporting CP have kept their man, and Jablonec go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Bendegúz Kovács sends Jablonec past Bohemians 1905

It finished 2‑1, and it was Bendegúz Kovács’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Jablonec.

In brief

25 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Abdullahi Shehu out for 77 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Jablonec will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Jan Hanuš keeps Jablonec in it on his own

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.

Market

Matěj Polidar has said yes to Dukla Prague

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Jablonec have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Abdullahi Shehu 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 Jablonec can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Slavia Prague end the Jablonec run at 9

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 9 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Squad

Jan Chramosta 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 Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Jablonec rebuffed over Lee Young-Jun

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Grasshopper have kept their man, and Jablonec go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Sparta Prague watching Matej Malenšek

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Jablonec have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Match

Slavia Prague take the points off Jablonec

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

24 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A fracture rules Abdullahi Shehu out for 84 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Jablonec will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Taofeek Otaniyi 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 Jablonec can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Jan Chramosta is carrying Jablonec

19 goals and a season average of 7.43. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Jan Hanuš stands alone

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.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Bendegúz Kovács at 19 — 7.71

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Bendegúz Kovács did not need any: 7.71, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Jan Chramosta yet — 8.09

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.09 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match

Nobody wants to play Jablonec right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

A falling-out at Jablonec

Jan Chramosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Jablonec rebuffed over Diego Callai

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sporting CP have kept their man, and Jablonec go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

23 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Jablonec run riot against Pribram

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad

A fracture rules Abdullahi Shehu out for 92 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Jablonec will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

A brace, and Bendegúz Kovács takes the afternoon — 9.02

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Bendegúz Kovács provided it, and the 9.02 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Filip Novák puts it in writing

“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 Jablonec, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Vintage Vakhtang Chanturishvili — 7.94

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.94, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market

Jablonec say no — this time

The offer from Sparta Prague for Matej Malenšek 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.

Match

Whatever happens, Jablonec do not lose

8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Words exchanged at Jablonec

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nemanja Tekijaški was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

22 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Jablonec tear Jihlava apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Jihlava, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

A brace, and Jan Chramosta takes the afternoon — 9.51

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jan Chramosta provided it, and the 9.51 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

A fracture rules Abdullahi Shehu out for 101 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Jablonec will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Bendegúz Kovács scores twice — 8.67

Two goals and a mark of 8.67 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Jan Chramosta

18 goals and a season average of 7.42 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Match

7 unbeaten for Jablonec

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Jablonec did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Tempers go at Jablonec

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.

Player ratings

Vakhtang Chanturishvili was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Garang Kuol

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

In brief

21 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Vakhtang Chanturishvili runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 46. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Abdullahi Shehu breaks a bone — 109 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 109 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Dušan Pavlović keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Jablonec may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Jan Chramosta is carrying Jablonec

16 goals and a season average of 7.34. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

6 unbeaten for Jablonec

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Jablonec did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Nemanja Tekijaški 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.

Squad

Lamin Jawo 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 Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

No hiding place for Richard Sedláček

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Richard Sedláček, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Jiří Sláma — 7.00

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 9 actions, 7.00, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

In brief

20 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Saidou Alioum runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 45. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

116 days out for Abdullahi Shehu after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Jablonec will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Both of them Jan Chramosta's — 8.82

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.82, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Taofeek Otaniyi puts it in writing

“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 Jablonec, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Jan Chramosta is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.33 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

A falling-out at Jablonec

Jan Chramosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Nemanja Tekijaški 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Saidou Alioum

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Jablonec get the job done against Dukla Prague

A 2‑0 win over Dukla Prague, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

19 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Abdullahi Shehu out for 124 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Jablonec will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Saidou Alioum beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Words exchanged at Jablonec

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.

Squad

Michalis Kosidis out for 39 days

The medical room confirms 39 days on the sidelines for Michalis Kosidis, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Jan Chramosta

13 goals and a season average of 7.27 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

The terraces

One of their own: Bendegúz Kovács

He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Jablonec see off Zlin

Three points for Jablonec, 1‑0 the final word against Zlin in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The dugout

No hiding place for Filip Novák

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Filip Novák, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Jan Chramosta stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.79 on the card, and the Jablonec support went home talking about one name.

In brief

18 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Jablonec throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Sigma Olomouc the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Jablonec will enjoy reviewing.

Squad

A fracture rules Abdullahi Shehu out for 132 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Jablonec will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

A brace, and Jan Chramosta takes the afternoon — 9.00

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jan Chramosta provided it, and the 9.00 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Tempers go at Jablonec

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nemanja Tekijaški was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Jan Chramosta is carrying Jablonec

12 goals and a season average of 7.25. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Player ratings

One of those days for Michalis Kosidis

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.43, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Lamin Jawo

“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.

Match

Honours even between Jablonec and Sigma Olomouc

3‑3, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

17 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cup progress for Jablonec

A 2‑0 win over Viktoria Plzen, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Ebrima Singhateh beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 30. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Taofeek Otaniyi: 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.” Jablonec have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Lawal Muritala delivers — 7.82

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Lawal Muritala scored, was marked 7.82, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

Jan Chramosta 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 Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

A hand in 2 of them from Michalis Kosidis — 7.93

Marked 7.93. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.

Squad

Nemanja Tekijaški 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Dominik Hollý

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

Jablonec are still strangers to each other

7 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.

In brief

16 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Sebastian Nebyla out for 18 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Jablonec will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Taofeek Otaniyi puts it in writing

“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 Jablonec, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A falling-out at Jablonec

Jan Chramosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Jablonec come up short against Viktoria Plzen

Viktoria Plzen left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Filip Novák 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.

Squad

Home is on Taofeek Otaniyi's mind

“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; Jablonec are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout

Stanley Amuzie 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 dugout

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 0‑1 Antonin Stanek left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

Jablonec keep their word to Richard Sedláček

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief

15 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Sebastian Nebyla breaks a bone — 27 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Jablonec run riot against Slovacko

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad

3 goals for Michalis Kosidis

The match ball belongs to Michalis Kosidis, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Squad

Words exchanged at Jablonec

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.

Player ratings

Michalis Kosidis was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.37. 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nemanja Tekijaški was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

One of their own: Bendegúz Kovács

He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Market

Jablonec promote Jiri Masopust from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jiri Masopust 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.

Market

Jablonec promote Ales Cerny from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ales Cerny 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.

In brief

14 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Saidou Alioum runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

A brace, and Jan Chramosta takes the afternoon — 8.86

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jan Chramosta provided it, and the 8.86 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

The dugout

Michalis Kosidis keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Jablonec may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Jan Hanuš stands alone

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.

Squad

Nemanja Tekijaški 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Jablonec

Lamin Jawo 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 ratings

One of those days for Lamin Jawo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.10, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Jan Chramosta is carrying Jablonec

10 goals and a season average of 7.21. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

Jablonec refuse to lose to Mlada Boleslav

A point taken on 93 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

In brief

13 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

A brace, and Ebrima Singhateh takes the afternoon — 8.27

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ebrima Singhateh provided it, and the 8.27 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Vakhtang Chanturishvili was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 29. 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.

The dugout

Nassim Innocenti says Jablonec went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Jan Chramosta 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 Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Jablonec see off Teplice

Three points for Jablonec, 2‑1 the final word against Teplice in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Ebrima Singhateh

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

Filip Novák 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 dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Antonin Stanek kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Gbolagade Adelowo

“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.

In brief

12 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Jan Chramosta, 36, rolls back the years — 8.53

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.53 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

A falling-out at Jablonec

Jan Chramosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Jablonec training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nemanja Tekijaški 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.

Player ratings

Ebrima Singhateh beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Jan Chramosta rescues a point for Jablonec

It needed Jan Chramosta to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Zbrojovka Brno, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Jablonec

Something was said to Lamin Jawo and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

No hiding place for Nassim Innocenti

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nassim Innocenti, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Antonin Stanek: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 2‑2 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout

Jablonec pick somebody else ahead of Filip Novák

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

11 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words exchanged at Jablonec

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nemanja Tekijaški was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Jablonec promote Lukas Sima from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lukas Sima 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Lamin Jawo at his very best

Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Jablonec.

Match

Late, late show earns Jablonec a point

Minute 96, against Bohemians 1905, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Jiří Sláma

“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.

Match

Jablonec and Bohemians 1905 take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad

No place for Gbolagade Adelowo in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Jablonec are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Antonin Stanek was not hiding it after 2‑2, and nobody in the Jablonec dressing room was either.

In brief

10 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Jablonec

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.

Match

Jablonec come up short against Slavia Prague

Slavia Prague left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Filip Novák 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Stanley Amuzie

“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.

Player ratings

Ebrima Singhateh beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

14 new faces, and Jablonec are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

Antonin Stanek answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad

Jan Hanuš 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 dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Filip Novák

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

9 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Jan Hanuš

There were 15 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 ratings

Age has not caught Vakhtang Chanturishvili yet — 8.16

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.16 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match

Jablonec make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Jablonec have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Jan Chramosta 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 Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nemanja Tekijaški was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

One of their own: Ebrima Singhateh

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Jablonec get the job done against Sparta Prague

A 2‑0 win over Sparta Prague, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Goal number 50 for Vakhtang Chanturishvili

50 goals in these colours now, every one of them somebody’s memory. There is a supporter in the stand who can tell you where he was for most of them.

The dugout

No hiding place for Michalis Kosidis

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michalis Kosidis, and the manager let it.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Jan Hanuš has become a man the manager trusts
  • The dugout The form table has caught Filip Novák
8 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

4 goals for Jan Chramosta

The match ball belongs to Jan Chramosta, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Match

No mercy from Jablonec

Pribram will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Jablonec were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Jan Chramosta yet — 9.96

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.96 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

A falling-out at Jablonec

Jan Chramosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nemanja Tekijaški was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

Jablonec supporters have found a favourite in Garang Kuol

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Garang Kuol 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.

Match

Pribram blown away early

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.

Player ratings

Garang Kuol in the eights

A performance of 8.35 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Filip Novák

“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.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout A promise honoured for Filip Novák
  • The dugout Ebrima Singhateh has become a man the manager trusts
7 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Vintage Jan Chramosta — 8.06

At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.06, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Words exchanged at Jablonec

Lamin Jawo 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.

Match

Jablonec see off Jihlava

Three points for Jablonec, 2‑1 the final word against Jihlava in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

Adam Masopust steps up from the Jablonec academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Adam Masopust 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Lamin Jawo at his very best

Marked 8.38. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Jablonec.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Filip Novák was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Jablonec lose Beni Makouana

32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Jiří Texl

“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.

Player ratings

Wrong net for Stanley Amuzie

A touch he did not mean and a goal that goes in the book with his name against it. Jablonec will not blame him tonight and he will not need them to.

In brief

6 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vakhtang Chanturishvili

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom

Jablonec close the window on a squad of their own making

15 in and 2 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.

Market

Jablonec turn down Viktoria Plzen for Matej Malenšek

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Taofeek Otaniyi arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Taofeek Otaniyi has, at Jablonec, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets

Ricardinho will not be coming to Jablonec

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Asteras is saying, and nobody at Jablonec is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Tempers go at Jablonec

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nemanja Tekijaški was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Asteras tell Jablonec: Nicholas Gioacchini is not for sale

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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Jablonec against Banik Ostrava

0‑1 to Banik Ostrava, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

5 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Saidou Alioum

Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Jablonec say no — this time

The offer from Sparta Prague for Lamin Jawo 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 targets

The paperwork begins on Michalis Kosidis

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Jablonec have done the hard part with Gornik Zabrze, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

Craque will not be coming to Jablonec

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Astra is saying, and nobody at Jablonec is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Jan Chramosta 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 Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Youssuf Sylla

Jablonec asked and Jagiellonia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A row about effort at Jablonec

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Filip Novák was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Richard Sedláček

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Richard Sedláček, and the manager let it.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Jablonec

11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

4 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Beni Makouana sends Jablonec through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Beni Makouana obliged against Teplice. 6‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Jablonec.

Player ratings

Lamin Jawo scores twice — 9.06

Two goals and a mark of 9.06 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Both of them Garang Kuol's — 8.60

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.60, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Beni Makouana takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Market

Business is business: Martin Cedidla goes

Hajduk Split paid $9.7M and Jablonec took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Player ratings

Matej Malenšek, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.00

A mark of 8.00 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

The terraces

A $9.7M sale, and a town that did not want it

Martin Cedidla has gone, the accounts have $9.7M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Yoël van den Ban rejects the move

Jablonec had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at AZ, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Match

Jablonec make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Jablonec have 3 straight wins of it.

In brief

3 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Jan Chramosta scores twice — 9.52

Two goals and a mark of 9.52 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Lamin Jawo scores twice — 9.18

Two goals and a mark of 9.18 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

Jablonec leave it late against Sigma Olomouc

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 87th, and Sigma Olomouc spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Player ratings

Vakhtang Chanturishvili, 33, rolls back the years — 7.83

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.83 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Andy Irving

Jablonec 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.

Transfer targets

Tomáš Horák turns down Jablonec

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Mlada Boleslav keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Market

Jablonec say no — this time

The offer from Teplice for Matěj Polidar 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Jablonec

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.

Match

Jablonec see off Sigma Olomouc

Three points for Jablonec, 4‑3 the final word against Sigma Olomouc in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

2 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Jablonec taken apart

0‑4 to Slovan Liberec, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Jablonec say no — this time

The offer from Slavia Prague for Martin Cedidla 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.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Jan Hanuš

There were 7 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.

Squad

Jiří Texl arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Jiří Texl has, at Jablonec, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets

Jablonec make their move for Andy Irving

$2.3M on the table at Sparta 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.

Squad

Filip Zorvan stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Filip Zorvan and Jablonec agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Jan Chramosta 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 Jablonec this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Jablonec rebuffed over Sam Curtis

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sheffield United have kept their man, and Jablonec go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Jablonec promote Lukas Coufal from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lukas Coufal 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.

In brief

1 Edition

The Jablonec Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Jan Hanuš

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 ratings

Garang Kuol scores twice — 8.64

Two goals and a mark of 8.64 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Martin Cedidla signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Martin Cedidla and Jablonec agree another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Jablonec

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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Dane Scarlett

Jablonec asked and Leyton Orient said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Garang Kuol

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Market

Talks stall between Jablonec and Jan Chramosta

“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.

Market

The clock runs on Vakhtang Chanturishvili's contract

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.

Squad

8 new faces, and Jablonec are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief