MFK Ruzomberok U20

23 Aug 2026
Sunday
Process
3 Edition

The MFK Ruzomberok Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Dominik Kostka

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

MFK Ruzomberok turn down Slovan Bratislava for Daniel Köstl

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

Transfer targets

Štěpán Chaloupek turns down MFK Ruzomberok

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

Squad

A falling-out at MFK Ruzomberok

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

Transfer targets

MFK Ruzomberok rebuffed over Samuel Ďatko

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

Match

MFK Ruzomberok cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Match

A bad afternoon for MFK Ruzomberok against MFK Michalovce

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

Squad

A row about effort at MFK Ruzomberok

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

Market

A long bet from MFK Ruzomberok on Ousman Kujabi

He is 20, and nobody at MFK Ruzomberok signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The MFK Ruzomberok Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Ousman Kujabi due for a MFK Ruzomberok medical

Everything agreed with Podbrezova, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Jan Hladík signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jan Hladík and MFK Ruzomberok agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at MFK Ruzomberok

Christián Herc 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

MFK Ruzomberok rebuffed over Ladislav Almási

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bohemians 1905 have kept their man, and MFK Ruzomberok go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jan Hladík

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

Market

MFK Ruzomberok promote Albert Hrosovsky from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Albert Hrosovsky 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

One of our own: Ondrej Bozenik joins the MFK Ruzomberok first team

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

Market

Ondrej Kucka steps up from the MFK Ruzomberok academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ondrej Kucka 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: Patrik Gyomber joins the MFK Ruzomberok first team

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

In brief

1 Edition

The MFK Ruzomberok Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dominik Kostka signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dominik Kostka commits to MFK Ruzomberok for another 3 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at MFK Ruzomberok

Dominik Kostka 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 MFK Ruzomberok

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

Market

49 months and counting on Ondřej Šašinka

Still no offer on the table, and Ondřej Šašinka’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Squad

9 new faces, and MFK Ruzomberok 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.

Transfer targets

MFK Ruzomberok try to borrow Ladislav Almási

Bohemians 1905 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.

Market

David Jackuliak told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” David Jackuliak has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at MFK Ruzomberok.

Market

Still no ink between MFK Ruzomberok and Martin Šulek

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

The dugout

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

In brief