“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what MFK Michalovce can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A brace, and Kai Brosnan takes the afternoon — 8.28
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kai Brosnan provided it, and the 8.28 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Tomasz Walczak, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.42
A mark of 8.42 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 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.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what MFK Michalovce can pretend not to have heard.
Patrik Vydra 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.
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and MFK Michalovce know it.
MSK Zilina left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at MFK Michalovce training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tornike Dzotsenidze 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.
Position 11, 10 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
Squad26 Oct 2026
10 new faces, and MFK Michalovce 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Andrej Pekarik to a room that had heard them before.
Two goals and a mark of 8.62 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Konstantin Savichev 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.
At 19 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.
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 33 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at MFK Michalovce training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrik Vydra 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.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Tomasz Walczak. 2‑1 against Spartak Trnava, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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.
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at MFK Michalovce this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Something was said to Patrik Vydra and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patrik Lukáč was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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 Samuel is on it.
Spartak Trnava next, and one man in the MFK Michalovce dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. MFK Michalovce know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and MFK Michalovce will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at MFK Michalovce training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tornike Dzotsenidze 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tomasz Walczak is the division's best young player this month
At 21 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. MFK Michalovce will try very hard not to make too much of it.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Andrej Pekarik after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. José Ángel López is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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 Patrik Vydra is on it.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” MFK Michalovce have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
At 19 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.
6 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Patrik Vydra 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.
Tornike Dzotsenidze 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.
10 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Patrik Vydra's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Two goals and a mark of 8.74 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Konstantin Savichev scored, was marked 7.59, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Patrik Vydra 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.
8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about MFK Michalovce and MFK Skalica in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Karviná have kept their man, and MFK Michalovce go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what MFK Michalovce can pretend not to have heard.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at MFK Michalovce this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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.
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against FC Košice? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
“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 MFK Michalovce, and it is not being withdrawn.
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 18 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
MFK Michalovce asked and Spartak Trnava said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Park Tae-Rang reports back to MFK Michalovce with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Konstantin Savichev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Patrik Vydra 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.
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. MFK Michalovce will try again when the window opens; Tatran Prešov may not be selling by then.
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Martin Koscelník is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
The dugoutPatrik Vydra has become a man the manager trusts
The dugoutAdam Jakubech is still being punished for one mistake
5Edition
The MFK Michalovce Gazette
31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondentUneasy
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
$470.0K settles it between the clubs for Landing Sagna
Tatran Prešov have accepted the money. What MFK Michalovce do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slovan Bratislava have kept their man, and MFK Michalovce go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Konstantin Savichev 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.
MFK Ruzomberok pay $290.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
The phone has started ringing about Park Tae-Rang again, and this time the name on the line is Púchov. MFK Michalovce are listening politely and promising nothing.
Successful dribbles: 18. 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.
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Samuel obliged against Inter Bratislava. 5‑2 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is MFK Michalovce.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what MFK Michalovce can pretend not to have heard.
Two goals and a mark of 8.20 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.26 for the rest of it.
The chase for Hilary Gong ended with $380.0K changing hands and Spartak Trnava out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at MFK Michalovce this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between MFK Michalovce and Inter Bratislava, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
In brief
SquadWords at MFK Michalovce training over how hard people work
Tomasz Walczak was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. MFK Michalovce know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Andrej Pekarik after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Tatran Prešov next, and one man in the MFK Michalovce dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. MFK Michalovce have done the hard part with Sparta Prague, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tomasz Walczak and MFK Michalovce agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
MFK Michalovce asked and MFK Ruzomberok said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
13 combined actions and 7.84. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lukas Gyomber is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jakub Bero is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lukáš Pauschek and MFK Michalovce agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Tomasz Walczak 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.
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at MFK Michalovce training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tornike Dzotsenidze 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.
Still no offer on the table, and Lukáš Pauschek’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
6 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.