Czech Football Season 2022/23

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Czech Football Season 2022/23

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The 21/22 season is over and transfer and manager moves are the hot topic these days.

Sparta Praha announced hiring danish manager Brian Priske who is well known here in Czechia as the man who eliminated Slavia Praha in the CL Q4 two years ago with Midtjylland. The announcement came as a surprise as rumours stated that Adrian Gula is the favourite to get the job and the other option was a german coach (probably Heiko Herrlich). Priske will have a tough job of returning Sparta to the top of czech league, last time Sparta clinched the title was 2013/14. He will work with almost exclusively czech squad, there are only a few foreign players in Sparta at the moment.

The job will be a bit harder also because wonderkid Adam Hložek is about to leave the club and join Bayer Leverkusen for reported 13M Eur, additional bonuses and a huge 30% sell on clause. The transfer was not confirmed yet but Hložek was in Germany last week for a medical check and the confirmation is expected any day now.

Sparta Praha acquired RB Jan Mejdr from Hradec Králové in exchange for Adam Gabriel and is expected to sign several other league players, in particular CB/LB Jaroslav Zelený from Jablonec, AM/CM Kryštof Daněk from Olomouc, youngster Michal Ševčík from Brno etc.

Plzeň still does not have a new owner and has to deal with departures of several players - Jean David Beauguel's contract expired and he said that he wants to leave Czechia. Jan Sýkora's loan ended and the player returned to Lech Poznań. Eduardo Santos's loan ended, Plzeň was interested to buy him from Karviná but Slavia Praha allegedly offered more than Plzeň could afford and the player is expected to end in Slavia. Meanwhile Plzeň is signing interesting free players - Václav Pilař from Jablonec, Kristi Qose from Karviná and Martin Jedlička from DAC Dunajská Streda.

Slavia Praha signed David Douděra from Mladá Boleslav and as mentioned above is rumoured to be interested in Eduardo Santos. Slavia allegedly talks with Djurgarden about CB Isak Hien, other rumours include Adam Vlkanova from Hradec Králové and Ewerton from Mladá Boleslav.

Clearly, these three clubs are once again expected to fight for the title. Baník Ostrava with Pavel Vrba should improve and fight at least for N4 with Slovácko. Olomouc stated that they want to get into top 6 next season.
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Confirmed transfers in last couple of days:
Jaroslav Zelený: Jablonec -> Sparta Praha
Václav Jurečka: Slovácko -> Slavia Praha
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Further confirmed transfers

Adam Hložek: Sparta Praha -> Bayer Leverkusen
Alexander Bah: Slavia Praha -> Benfica Lisbon
Kryštof Daněk: Olomouc -> Sparta Praha
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More confirmed transfers

Jan Kliment: Wisla Krakow -> Plzeň
Eduardo Santos: Karviná -> Slavia Praha

Almost confirmed (will start the preseason with a new club but paperwork is not finished) - Lukáš Sadílek: Slovácko -> Sparta Praha

Slovácko lost two of their key players in Jurečka and Sadílek, somewhat expectedly but still it is quite a blow to their chances in the EL Q3 and then E(C)L Q4... Quite a big movement in Sparta which (almost) signed 4 new players with the potential to be in starting squad already...
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More notable transfers

Filip Čihák: Pardubice -> Plzeň
Mohamed Tijani: Slavia Praha -> Plzeň
Michal Frydrych: Wisla Krakow -> Ostrava
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Greek media report that Olympiacos is interested in Denis Alijagic, a young winger belonging to Slavia Praha who was on loan to Vlasim. It's probably a target for Olympiacos' 2nd team, playing in the 2nd division.

Anyone have any opinion on him?
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Firnen wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 14:38 Greek media report that Olympiacos is interested in Denis Alijagic, a young winger belonging to Slavia Praha who was on loan to Vlasim. It's probably a target for Olympiacos' 2nd team, playing in the 2nd division.

Anyone have any opinion on him?
Yeah, he was considered widely to be a rising superstar just six months ago. He has been very good for Slavia U19s and later on loan in second tier Vlašim. He went to the winter camp with Slavia A team and had a conflict with an assistent manager. Then he went to Liberec on loan but barely played there and multiple people from the club told others that he is so arrogant that it is not very pleasant to be in the same team with him, his behaviour was almost shocking at times (like one of the older players tried to have a talk with him about his behaviour and Alijagic essentially fucked him off by saying that he will be a bigger star than this old guy, so he has no business talking to him like that).

So the situation now is that Alijagic is more or less dead to Slavia and the club will surely take any opportunity to get rid of him. Czech media report that Olympiakos may offer something around 400k Euro for him and likely some sell-on percentage, if that is true, I expect Slavia to agree and the transfer to be completed.

Outside of whatever goes on in his head, Alijagic is still a very skilled striker, he got attention among Slavia fans with some of his clever longer range chips over goalkeepers. If the team he will play for is able to share the locker room with him, he very well may grow into a player capable of playing for Olympiacos A team in a year or so.
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More interesting transfers:

Cadu: Pardubice -> Plzeň
Michal Hlavatý: Plzeň -> Pardubice
Ewerton: Mladá Boleslav -> Slavia Praha
Libor Kozák: Puskás Akadémia -> Slovácko
Patrik Brandner: České Budějovice -> Slovácko
Ladislav Takács: Slavia Praha -> Ostrava
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Other transfers:

Cheick Condé: Zlín -> FC Zurich
Denis Alijagić: Slavia Praha -> Olympiakos
Matěj Polidar: Sparta Praha -> Jablonec (on loan)
Ondřej Kúdela: Slavia Praha -> Persia Jakarta (free transfer)

It seems that all top three clubs are making quite significant changes to their squads, Plzeň mostly enlarging the squad to be able to fight in Europe, Slavia and Sparta both signing players and letting players go.
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Czech league finally moves ahead and increases the size of benches for league matches from 7 players to 11 players. This however holds only for the top league, second division still remains at 7 players, 5 of which can be substituted into the match.

The draw of the league took place today, the complete draw is available here: https://www.fortunaliga.cz/clanek/17181 ... e-slovacko

The highlights of the autumn period come very late:
Round 9: Plzeň - Slavia Praha, Sparta Praha - Ostrava
Round 13: Slavia Praha - Sparta Praha
Round 15: Slavia Praha - Ostrava, Plzeň - Sparta Praha
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It won't get more spicy than this...

Jan Kuchta: Lokomotiv Moscow -> Sparta Praha

Slavia was in talks with Kuchta to bring him back, meanwhile the players was talking to Sparta as well and yesterday instead of arriving to final meeting with Slavia managers he stopped communicating, went to Sparta and signed there a one year loan with option. Slavia fans as well as the board are infuriated.

Sparta still did not finish the signing Lukáš Sadílek from Slovácko and it is possible that Slavia will try to hijack this transfer, despite Sadílek playing today a preseason match for Sparta.
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Some notable news just before the start of the season

Viktoria Plzeň in the end acquired back Jan Sýkora, who was there in the spring on loan from Lech Poznan. The polish club initially wanted him back but eventually accepted to sell him back to Czechia. Sýkora has very interesting journey, played in Plzeň as a 16yo prodigy, Sparta Praha acquired him, when he was about to start in the A team, they sent him to Liberec. Slavia bought him from Liberec even though Sparta was also interested (Sykora denied Sparta's offer). When Slavia did not want him anymore, Sykora joined Lech Poznan and soon enough he returned to Plzeň. Plzeň will start the season against HJK Helsinki and should progress.

Slavia presented a new logo and new graphic design on a whole-evening event with a press conference. Christ Tiehi joins Slavia on loan from Liberec, while Maxim Talovierov goes in the opposite direction on loan. Mick van Buren should join him as well, Daniel Samek is loaned to Mladá Boleslav. Slavia wants one more center back, is still interested in Isak Hien but may be forced to choose other option. Slavia will travel to Gibraltar to face St. Joseph's on Thursday next week and should win twice easily.

Sparta prolonged contract with their second wonderkid Adam Karabec (though his progress is much slower than that of Adam Hložek). Brian Priske does not have good results in the preseason but I do not see anyone being nervous about it yet. The first match against Viking Stavanger will be very important.

Slovácko has a new co-owner but it is still unknown how this will affect the club in the near future. It is unlikely that expensive players will join the club anytime soon.

Baník Ostrava played a friendly with Celtic (lost 2-4) as a celebration of 100 years of the club. Baník should aim for top 4 (again).

Jablonec under new coach David Horejš should also be much better this season than the last one and probably play for top 6.
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If the first round is any indication what comes in the rest of the season, we have something to look forward to... Insane results.

Round 1
July 30: Zlín - Mladá Boleslav 0:0
July 30: Brno - Slovácko 2:2
July 30: Ostrava - Olomouc 0:3
July 30: Teplice - Plzeň 2:2
July 31: Pardubice - České Budějovice 0:2
July 31: Hradec Králové - Slavia Praha 1:0
July 31: Jablonec - Bohemians 0:3
July 31: Sparta Praha - Liberec 1:2

Highlights of this round:
- On Saturday, title holders Plzeň started terribly in Teplice, conceded and did not have any chance throughout the whole first half. Early in the second half they conceded again and finally started to play like champions. They equalized and it seemed only a matter of time when they turn the match around. Instead, in the added time, Hejda fouled in the box, got himself sent off and Urbanec (age 30) in his league debut had a chance to finish his hattrick from the spot. Staněk denied him and Plzeň even had one more chance, wasted by Dedič. Huge surprise.
- Another surprise from Saturday, Ostrava absolutely imploded at home against Olomouc and deservedly lost 0-3. What should have been a celebration of the return of home grown Pavel Vrba, quickly turned into a disaster.
- Slavia played a tricky match away against Hradec Králové. Poor performance with a lot of posession without any dangerous situations, the home team scored from their only chance. Slavia somehow pushed only in last couple of minutes, in the largest chance, Jurásek missed after a ball unexpectedly went through the whole defence to him at the back post.
- Sparta needed to please their fans after being eliminated in ECL Q2. Instead, they conceded twice in the first 20 minutes and wasted the whole first half. In the second half, Sparta played well, had a lot of dangerous situations, but scored only once. In the last minute, frustrated Kuchta stomped on the head of the Liberec's goalkeeper Vliegen and was sent off, probably will face at least a three match ban.
- Pardubice and Jablonec, widely expected to be better than last season, both lost at home to clubs widely expected to fight for survival. Jablonec's case is more shocking, they had a good transfer window so far.

League table after Round 1:
1. Olomouc 1 1 0 0 3:0 3
1. Bohemians 1 1 0 0 3:0 3
3. České Budějovice 1 1 0 0 2:0 3
4. Liberec 1 1 0 0 2:1 3
5. Hradec Králové 1 1 0 0 1:0 3
6. Plzeň 1 0 1 0 2:2 1
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6. Slovácko 1 0 1 0 2:2 1
6. Teplice 1 0 1 0 2:2 1
6. Brno 1 0 1 0 2:2 1
10. Mladá Boleslav 1 0 1 0 0:0 1
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10. Zlín 1 0 1 0 0:0 1
12. Sparta Praha 1 0 0 1 1:2 0
13. Slavia Praha 1 0 0 1 0:1 0
14. Pardubice 1 0 0 1 0:2 0
15. Ostrava 1 0 0 1 0:3 0
15. Jablonec 1 0 0 1 0:3 0

Champions League CHQ2, Europa Conference League Q2, Relegation playoff, Relegation

Top scorers:
2 - Jakub Urbanec (TEP)
1 - 17 players

Top assists:
2 - Jakub Řezníček (BRN)
1 - 11 players
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quelhar wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 21:26 If the first round is any indication what comes in the rest of the season, we have something to look forward to... Insane results.

Round 1
July 30: Zlín - Mladá Boleslav 0:0
July 30: Brno - Slovácko 2:2
July 30: Ostrava - Olomouc 0:3
July 30: Teplice - Plzeň 2:2
July 31: Pardubice - České Budějovice 0:2
July 31: Hradec Králové - Slavia Praha 1:0
July 31: Jablonec - Bohemians 0:3
July 31: Sparta Praha - Liberec 1:2

Highlights of this round:
- On Saturday, title holders Plzeň started terribly in Teplice, conceded and did not have any chance throughout the whole first half. Early in the second half they conceded again and finally started to play like champions. They equalized and it seemed only a matter of time when they turn the match around. Instead, in the added time, Hejda fouled in the box, got himself sent off and Urbanec (age 30) in his league debut had a chance to finish his hattrick from the spot. Staněk denied him and Plzeň even had one more chance, wasted by Dedič. Huge surprise.
- Another surprise from Saturday, Ostrava absolutely imploded at home against Olomouc and deservedly lost 0-3. What should have been a celebration of the return of home grown Pavel Vrba, quickly turned into a disaster.
- Slavia played a tricky match away against Hradec Králové. Poor performance with a lot of posession without any dangerous situations, the home team scored from their only chance. Slavia somehow pushed only in last couple of minutes, in the largest chance, Jurásek missed after a ball unexpectedly went through the whole defence to him at the back post.
- Sparta needed to please their fans after being eliminated in ECL Q2. Instead, they conceded twice in the first 20 minutes and wasted the whole first half. In the second half, Sparta played well, had a lot of dangerous situations, but scored only once. In the last minute, frustrated Kuchta stomped on the head of the Liberec's goalkeeper Vliegen and was sent off, probably will face at least a three match ban.
- Pardubice and Jablonec, widely expected to be better than last season, both lost at home to clubs widely expected to fight for survival. Jablonec's case is more shocking, they had a good transfer window so far.

League table after Round 1:
1. Olomouc 1 1 0 0 3:0 3
1. Bohemians 1 1 0 0 3:0 3
3. České Budějovice 1 1 0 0 2:0 3
4. Liberec 1 1 0 0 2:1 3
5. Hradec Králové 1 1 0 0 1:0 3
6. Plzeň 1 0 1 0 2:2 1
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6. Slovácko 1 0 1 0 2:2 1
6. Teplice 1 0 1 0 2:2 1
6. Brno 1 0 1 0 2:2 1
10. Mladá Boleslav 1 0 1 0 0:0 1
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10. Zlín 1 0 1 0 0:0 1
12. Sparta Praha 1 0 0 1 1:2 0
13. Slavia Praha 1 0 0 1 0:1 0
14. Pardubice 1 0 0 1 0:2 0
15. Ostrava 1 0 0 1 0:3 0
15. Jablonec 1 0 0 1 0:3 0

Champions League CHQ2, Europa Conference League Q2, Relegation playoff, Relegation

Top scorers:
2 - Jakub Urbanec (TEP)
1 - 17 players

Top assists:
2 - Jakub Řezníček (BRN)
1 - 11 players
I sincerely hope that Kuchta receives a nice long suspension based on what you described. There's just no place for that in football, and three games suspension would not do it justice
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dnina10 wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 22:25 I sincerely hope that Kuchta receives a nice long suspension based on what you described. There's just no place for that in football, and three games suspension would not do it justice
Here is the video of that incident: https://twitter.com/adam_heger/status/1 ... 5279536128

Based on experience of bans in czech football, I would be surprised if the ban would be higher. The disciplinary committee here is notorious in not punishing heavilly almost anything and always refering to the fact that there was no injury, so a long ban is not necessary. I hate that principle, that unless there is a heavy injury, there is no longer ban, but that is a sad reality of czech football.
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