MSK Zilina U20

23 Aug 2026
Sunday
Process
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The MSK Zilina Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Chastening afternoon for MSK Zilina

A 0‑3 beating by Slovan Bratislava was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market

Slovan Bratislava come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and MSK Zilina did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Jan Paluska turns down MSK Zilina

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

Squad

Tempers go at MSK Zilina

Miroslav Káčer 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 tell MSK Zilina: Jan Hladík 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

No hiding place for Michal Faško

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

Squad

Hamdi Akujobi has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. MSK Zilina know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Boardroom

Nobody left the MSK Zilina 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.

Market

A long bet from MSK Zilina on Karol Blaško

He is 19, and nobody at MSK Zilina 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

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The MSK Zilina Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Terms done: Andrei Gabriele Florea is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Tatran Liptovský Mikuláš waiting with a shirt. Nobody at MSK Zilina is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Player ratings

Marko Roginić scores twice — 8.72

Two goals and a mark of 8.72 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Hamdi Akujobi scores twice — 8.04

Two goals and a mark of 8.04 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Podbrezova come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and MSK Zilina did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Southampton tell MSK Zilina: Gavin Bazunu 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.

Transfer targets

Jan Paluska is a medical away from MSK Zilina

The deal with Viktoria Plzen is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Miroslav Káčer stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Miroslav Káčer and MSK Zilina agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

MSK Zilina bid $320.0K for Loïc Bessilé

The offer went to AS Trencin this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

A falling-out at MSK Zilina

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

In brief

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The MSK Zilina Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Lukáš Havel gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Lukáš Havel has just signed for MSK Zilina, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Jindřich Staněk

MSK Zilina asked and Slavia 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.

Market

MSK Zilina say no — this time

The offer from Bekescsaba for Regő Szánthó 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

Filip Kaša signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Filip Kaša commits to MSK Zilina for another 2 years.

Squad

A falling-out at MSK Zilina

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

Market

Andrei Gabriele Florea attracts admirers

The name of Andrei Gabriele Florea has come up in conversations MSK Zilina were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Lukáš Havel has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. MSK Zilina know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Market

Talks stall between MSK Zilina and Michal Faško

“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

24 months and counting on Filip Kaša

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

In brief