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Market8 Mar 2027
Add another name to the list: Fakel have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ousman Kujabi. The answer from Podbrezova has not changed — yet.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Claudio Saieva commits to Podbrezova for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Luka Silagadze was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
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Market1 Mar 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Podbrezova, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Matúš Marcin gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Market22 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad22 Feb 2027
74 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Luka Silagadze was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
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Squad15 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market15 Feb 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Peter Kováčik’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market15 Feb 2027
Window shut, Ondřej Deml still here
Podbrezova spent the window trying to move Ondřej Deml on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
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Squad8 Feb 2027
Sharani Zuberu 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Podbrezova has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Squad1 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Feb 2027
This league is too small for Sharani Zuberu
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Podbrezova will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matúš Marcin, and the manager let it.
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Squad25 Jan 2027
Mauricio Liñán: 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.” Podbrezova have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad25 Jan 2027
106 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Luka Silagadze 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.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Wages eat 102% of everything Podbrezova earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andriy Havrylenko, and the manager let it.
Market25 Jan 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Kevor Palumets signs something — a contract at Podbrezova or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Squad18 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Kevor Palumets
“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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Peter Kováčik’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Squad11 Jan 2027
Kevor Palumets: 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.” Podbrezova have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad11 Jan 2027
43 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Luka Silagadze was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
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Market4 Jan 2027
The offer from Deportivo Municipal for Radek Šiler 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Matúš Marcin
“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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Podbrezova know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Andriy Havrylenko trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Loan watch4 Jan 2027
19 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Squad28 Dec 2026
Matúš Marcin: 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.” Podbrezova have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad28 Dec 2026
136 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Luka Silagadze was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
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Squad21 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Kevor Palumets has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Podbrezova that is a harder question to answer.
Market21 Dec 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kevor Palumets’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Squad14 Dec 2026
71 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Radek Šiler and Podbrezova agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Luka Silagadze 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 ratings14 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.93, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match12 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Luka Silagadze. 1‑0 against Zlate Moravce, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.31, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match5 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Podbrezova's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Podbrezova has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad7 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Samuel Štefánik commits to Podbrezova for another 2 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 17 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 17 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match5 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. MFK Michalovce will be the happier side with the point.
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Uneasy
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Podbrezova's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Podbrezova has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Luka Silagadze 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 176% of everything Podbrezova earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
The one thing Ousman Kujabi could not do
Shots: 8, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Match28 Nov 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. MFK Skalica came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Uneasy
Match21 Nov 2026
Slovan Bratislava go through and Podbrezova go home, 1‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Podbrezova
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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Peter Kováčik 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.
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Squad16 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 31 days on the sidelines for Roland Galčík, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad16 Nov 2026
102 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Luka Silagadze 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 ratings16 Nov 2026
Marked 8.87 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.05, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.04, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match14 Nov 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match7 Nov 2026
0‑2 to DAC Dunajska Streda, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mauricio Liñán, and the manager let it.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Radek Šiler leaves them behind him
Shots: 9. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Market9 Nov 2026
The name of Peter Kováčik keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Podbrezova say nothing, which says plenty.
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Match31 Oct 2026
3‑0, and Radek Šiler took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Podbrezova tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Luka Silagadze 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 ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A performance of 9.32 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 176% of everything Podbrezova earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 8.77 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.59, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match24 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for Podbrezova
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Podbrezova are no longer polite ones.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Claudio Saieva 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 Claudio Saieva trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 13, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Shots: 10, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Match24 Oct 2026
Point won or two lost for Podbrezova?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Spartak Myjava? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Squad19 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 133 days on the sidelines for Ridwan Sanusi, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Podbrezova
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Podbrezova are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Luka Silagadze 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kevor Palumets and Podbrezova agree another 4 years.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 8.69 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.22, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match17 Oct 2026
It needed Radek Šiler to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against MSK Zilina, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Spartak Trnava, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mauricio Liñán, and the manager let it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
The one thing Radek Šiler could not do
Shots: 7, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
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Steady
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Luka Silagadze was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Samuel Štefánik and Podbrezova agree another 1 years.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 281% of everything Podbrezova earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“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 ratings5 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.05 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Steady
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.58 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.27 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match26 Sep 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
René Paraj: 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.” Podbrezova have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Luka Silagadze 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Radek Šiler. 2‑1 against MFK Michalovce, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 8.80 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matej Jurička, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 8.59 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.38, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad21 Sep 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Matej Jurička knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
There were 10 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over MFK Skalica, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.45, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Rene Rantuša Lampreht trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A mark of 4.41 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
Market14 Sep 2026
The name of Peter Kováčik keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Podbrezova say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Podbrezova would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Crisis
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Podbrezova
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Podbrezova are no longer polite ones.
Market7 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Ondřej Deml reports back to Podbrezova with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Luka Silagadze 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
298% of the income goes out in wages at Podbrezova
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Radek Šiler
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match5 Sep 2026
Slovan Bratislava left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Balša Mrvaljević and Podbrezova agree another 4 years.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Podbrezova, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 Podbrezova, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sandro Melgarejo, and the manager let it.
Match29 Aug 2026
0‑1 to AS Trencin, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Claudio Saieva 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 Claudio Saieva trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The one thing Radek Šiler could not do
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Podbrezova would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Matej Jurička decides it from twelve yards
3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match19 Aug 2026
MFK Michalovce are out and Podbrezova go through, 1‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from Slovan Bratislava for Samuel Štefánik 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 Podbrezova, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Luka Silagadze 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.65 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ondřej Deml misses from twelve yards
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.
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Upbeat
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match15 Aug 2026
Three points for Podbrezova, 3‑2 the final word against FK Senica in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Roland Galčík
“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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Davit Hakobyan has come up in conversations Podbrezova were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.55 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ousman Kujabi has had enough of the bench
“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 Podbrezova will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Market17 Aug 2026
Experience through the door at Podbrezova
Claudio Saieva arrives at 37 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
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Upbeat
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Samuel Štefánik and Podbrezova agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Radek Šiler, and the manager let it.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.59 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.49 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Podbrezova, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Kevor Palumets’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer from Vasas for Radek Šiler 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 ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luka Silagadze and Podbrezova agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Luka Silagadze 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 ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 8.29 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.04, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ridwan Sanusi, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Jakub Luka is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Podbrezova has been clear about where Jakub Luka stands, which is more than many ever get.