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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad24 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 AS Trencin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gia Nadareishvili and AS Trencin agree another 5 years.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at AS Trencin
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Konstantin Pliev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
AS Trencin 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
No time for Podbrezova to settle
The goal that put Podbrezova ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when AS Trencin equalised, 3 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Richie Musaba
“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.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Pijus Širvys gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Pijus Širvys has just signed for AS Trencin, and for once the answer mattered.
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Pohronie waiting with a shirt. Nobody at AS Trencin is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
7.45, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: NK Domzale keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Pablo González 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 targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. MSK Zilina have kept their man, and AS Trencin go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Spartak Trnava pay $260.0K, 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 terraces17 Aug 2026
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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Three points for AS Trencin, 2‑0 the final word against MFK Skalica in a contest settled by the finer margins.
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Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. AS Trencin have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
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 7.51 for the rest of it.
Player ratings10 Aug 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 36 days on the sidelines for Andrija Katić, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Viktoria Plzen, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market10 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and AS Trencin did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Pablo González and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Konstantin Pliev 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: MFK Zvolen have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Hugo Pávek. The answer from AS Trencin has not changed — yet.
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Crisis
Match1 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for AS Trencin
A 0‑4 beating by Slovan Bratislava was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pablo González and AS Trencin agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Pablo González 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Alex Húdok has come up in conversations AS Trencin were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Loïc Bessilé 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 dugout3 Aug 2026
Loïc Bessilé 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.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
Nobody left the AS Trencin dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Andrija Katić's contract
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.
In brief
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Squad
AS Trencin are still strangers to each other
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Andrija Katić is still being punished for one mistake