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That's amazing Jimbo! And don't forget to keep the topic alive

Thanks. Yep, domesticaly we are safely on the way to hegemony, in Europe we are not good enough yet, though. At least we got into the group stage. I'm very happy with Spyrka's performances, I think I have found a hidden gem in him.

Taky Maly Yezzko / FC Košice / Season 8 - 2026/2027 Club Squad Manager Fortuna Liga - Winner After a shaky start of 2-2-2 from first 6 games we hit the run of good form and steadily climbed to the top of the league. We sealed our back to back title with two games to spare. Slovnaft Cup - Winner Beside winning the third round on penalties against second division team Sered we were quite comfortable throughout the campaign and finished it with final win 2-1 at home soil against Nitra. Champions League - 1st Qual. Round Bitterly disappointed after penalty loss against Crvena Zvezda Beograd. Both games finished 3-2 for home team. Europa League - 4th in the Group We had six tough game in the group against strong sides of Monaco, AZ Alkmaar and SK Rapid Vienna. I'm disappointed we did not managed to win a single game and finished our journey with a record of 0-3-3. Especially two losses against SK Rapid Vienna I find tough to swallow since I rate them not much higher than our team. Transfers Maybe I have gone a little over the board with number of youngster signings but we need to get homegrown players somehow. Finances Again kept safe by means of Europa League money. I'm quite a shrewd spender so we are steadily moving up. Three stars Jozef Spyrka - Leader of our offense, best goalscorer with 16 and best creator with 18 chances created, second in assists with 12. Pavol Krizan - Another solid season from our best player. Added amazing 6 goals from corners. Michal Kralovic - Strong season from our DLP, led the team with highest average rating of 7.36 Youth intake Tagged only one guy with 3star potential and fairly professional personality. History Season Division Position Slovnaft Cup Champions League Europa League Notes and Achievements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2019/20 2. liga 3rd 3rd Round N/A N/A Bronze medal 2020/21 2. liga 1st 1st Round N/A N/A League Winner, Promotion 2021/22 Fortuna Liga 2nd 3rd Round N/A N/A Silver Medal 2022/23 Fortuna Liga 1st Winner N/A 1st Qual. Round League Winner, Cup Winner 2023/24 Fortuna Liga 3rd Quarter Final 2nd Qual. Round 4th in Group EL Group Stage 2024/25 Fortuna Liga 2nd 3rd Round N/A 2nd Qual. Round 2025/26 Fortuna Liga 1st 1st Round N/A 3rd in Group League Winner 2026/27 Fortuna Liga 1st Winner 1st Qual. Round 4th in Group Domestic Double

Next season will be his last in our team, his loan would finish by then a he will be good enough to play in the first team of Sparta Praha so they won't loan him to us anymore. Sad but that's the life of a selling club.

Taky Maly Yezzko / FC Košice / Season 7 - 2025/2026 Club Squad Manager Fortuna Liga - Winner The season started great with 4 straight wins, a drop of form followed due to a fixture congestion. Later we we found our footing again and went on to a 15 match unbeaten run which kicked us right to the top of the league. We won the league comfortably 10 points clear despite the record of 0-4-2 in the last six games. Slovnaft Cup - 1st Round A bit unlucky exit at the very start of the competition. Nevermind, we have enough fixtures with Europa League group stage matches. Champions League - DNQ Did not qualify. Europa League - 3rd in the Group We breezed through qualification rounds except the 2nd against Brondby IF that we won on away goals after two draws (1-1 home and 2-2 away). The group stage was quite a different beast though. We lost both games against Sassuolo and Viktoria Plzen respectively and managed a win and a draw against welsh side TNS. All in all I'm happy with 4 points and no trashings on our account. Transfers Brought in a couple of youngsters from Slovakia and Balkan countries. Sad to see leave our precious CD Pavol Krizan, but the money (2.3M plus 50% from next sale) and his unwillingnes to pen a new contract gave me no choice. At least I managed to include two-year-long loan back. Finances Quite healthy, almost 4M from Europa League sent us into security region. Three stars Jakub Kadak - Great season from him. Played as IF on the left. Led the team in goals (15), asssissts (11), chances created (14) and also average rating (7.29). Pavol Krizan - Rock at the heart of our defense. Attribute-wise the best player in our history. Jozef Spyrka - Another good season from our leader. Continued to play as winger on AMR. Youth intake To call it poor would be a huge understatement. 6 guys with 1 gold + 1 black star, rest with half gold plus 1 black ... History Season Division Position Slovnaft Cup Champions League Europa League Notes and Achievements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2019/20 2. liga 3rd 3rd Round N/A N/A Bronze medal 2020/21 2. liga 1st 1st Round N/A N/A League Winner, Promotion 2021/22 Fortuna Liga 2nd 3rd Round N/A N/A Silver Medal 2022/23 Fortuna Liga 1st Winner N/A 1st Qual. Round League Winner, Cup Winner 2023/24 Fortuna Liga 3rd Quarter Final 2nd Qual. Round 4th in Group EL Group Stage 2024/25 Fortuna Liga 2nd 3rd Round N/A 2nd Qual. Round 2025/26 Fortuna Liga 1st 1st Round N/A 3rd in Group League Winner

Taky Maly Yezzko / FC Košice / Season 6 - 2024/2025 Club Squad Manager Fortuna Liga - 2nd Better than last one. We started poorly again with two losses between our european matches. After the exit from EL we found some form and crept to the top spot which we held with 5 games to go. Then we crumbled again with record of 1W 1D 3L fro last 5 games. Th title was decided against Slovan Bratisla with 3 games to go we lost to them by 0-1. Slovnaft Cup - 3rd Round Shameful exit against 3rd Division team of Fomat Martin. Champions League - DNQ - Europa League - 2nd Qual. Round I'm pleased with our 1st qual. round win against good polish side Legia Warszawa, in the second round Romanian power house FCSB was too much for us handle and comfortably kicked us out of competition. Transfers We brought in a number of great youngsters, I have high hopes especially for Pavol Krizan who looks amazing with great potential and great personality (Model Citizen). Finances Lost roughly 2M this season due to 800K of corporation tax mainly. We need more money from Europe to keep us safe. Three stars Denis Janco - New signing, managed only 22 games with good return of 8 goals and 6 assists and excellent rating of 7.42. Jozef Spyrka - Led the team with impressive 17 assists and 12 chances created in 36 games. Excellent season from our team leader and star player. Peter Bencik - Led the team again in goals with 12 in 33 games, was second in chances created with 11. Overall good performance from youngster. Youth intake Awful. History Season Division Position Slovnaft Cup Champions League Europa League Notes and Achievements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2019/20 2. liga 3rd 3rd Round N/A N/A Bronze medal 2020/21 2. liga 1st 1st Round N/A N/A League Winner, Promotion 2021/22 Fortuna Liga 2nd 3rd Round N/A N/A Silver Medal 2022/23 Fortuna Liga 1st Winner N/A 1st Qual. Round League Winner, Cup Winner 2023/24 Fortuna Liga 3rd Quarter Final 2nd Qual. Round 4th in Group EL Group Stage 2024/25 Fortuna Liga 2nd 3rd Round N/A 2nd Qual. Round

Taky Maly Yezzko / FC Košice / Season 5 - 2023/2024 Club Squad Manager Fortuna Liga - 3rd Awfull season in comparison to the last year. We started really bad with four 0-1 losses from first 6 games of the season. It was mainly due to our quite congested calendar(thanks to Champions League and later Europa League fixtures). And also there was my inability to alter our tactics to react to a situations when our reputation have risen quite high and teams started to play more defensively against us. We could not find our winning form from the year before and deservedly finished in the 3rd place. Slovnaft Cup - Quarter Final We won only the matches against lower league opponents and ultimately lost against later relegated Fortuna Liga side of Podbrezova. A disappointment despite we were using mainly fringe players. Champions League - 2nd Qualification Round Here we go. Our very first tie in the Champions League was against FK Skhendija from North Macedonia. We were deservedly after comfortable wins 2-0 and 4-0. Next tie was against much bigger side of Scotland Champion celtic FC. First leg at home soli brought us surprising 1-0 win. Away leg was quite different and Celtic showed class to send us to Europa League by winning 3-1. Europa League - 4th in Group The exit from CL brought us into 3rd Qualification round, we were comfortably through thanks to two wins against Hapoel Beer Sheva from Israel. The last qualifiaction round saw us against Skenderbeu from Albania. The first leg win of 4-1 gave us decisive lead in the tie and we sealed our first qualification into Group stage. In the group stage we were poor and managed only one 0-0 draw against Vorskla Poltava and lost everything else including two matches against PAOK and AS Roma respectively. Transfers Our transfer market was really quiet, only mention deserve two goalkeepers as we were short at the position. Finances With 3.5M from Europa League plus roughly 0.5M from Champions League we are safe now. Finally we have enough money to upgrade our attrocious facilities. I managed to negotiate Develop youth philosophy which helps a lot when trying to upgrade facilities. Three stars Peter Bencik - Young striker or inside forward, led the team in Goals with 17 in 42 games. Matus Bero - Karas' successor at the mezzala, provided great return with 14 goals in 43 games. Engin Cakir - Young center back, added 6 goals in 46 apps on top of his good defensive work. Youth intake Signed three guys, YP24A Hlinka looks quite a good prospect with 3 1/2 star potential. We'll see. History Season Division Position Slovnaft Cup Champions League Europa League Notes and Achievements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2019/20 2. liga 3rd 3rd Round N/A N/A Bronze medal 2020/21 2. liga 1st 1st Round N/A N/A League Winner, Promotion 2021/22 Fortuna Liga 2nd 3rd Round N/A N/A Silver Medal 2022/23 Fortuna Liga 1st Winner N/A 1st Qual. Round League Winner, Cup Winner 2023/24 Fortuna Liga 3rd Quarter Final 2nd Qual. Round 4th in Group

Taky Maly Yezzko / FC Košice / Season 4 - 2022/2023 Club Squad Manager Fortuna Liga - Winner We started the league really bad by losing 0-3 against Trencin, followed by 0-0 draw against Zilina. After that the fortunately we proceeded with 6 straight wins (score 12-1) which saw us catapulted right on top of the league. Our streak was boken by a draw and later by a loss but from matchday 13 we were on top until the the league split after 22 matches. We started the Champions Group 5 points ahead of Zilina and 7 of Trencin but all was lost after our streak of 4 losses followed by 2 draws. I thought title is lost now but the team responded with 2 wins which saved climb to the again with 2 games to go. We were 1st with 53 points, Trencin 2nd with 52 and Trnava were 3rd with 50. All was in our hands but the team crumled under the pressure against Trnava in the penultimate game and lost 0-3 at home with all the goals scored in the space of 7 minutes(70 - 76). Luck was on our side when Trencin also loast their game 0-3 against Slovan Bratislava. On the final day our first league title was seald by 2-0 vistory against Dunajska Streda while Trencin helped us by beating Trnava 1-0. Slovnaft Cup - Winner To put an icing on the cake we did the double. What should be only space for backups was transformed into a real campaign. We were on the brink of exit when we lost the first semifinal game against Poprad but the team responded well in the second match to allow us in to our first final. The final match against Senica was really drab which ended 0-0. In the pnalty shootout we were the luckier ones and won it 4-3. Europa League - 1st Qualification Round Our first outing in the Europe was against Helsinki side of HJK. It was a close affair with 0-1 loss at the HJK ground and exciting match on our turf. We started game well with a goal in 3rd minute and were quite comfortable winning 3-1 after the first half. HJK started the second half better but we striked first to make it 4-1 followed by HJK goal on 42. I was reluctant to defend the result since one goal for HJK would saw them lead on away goals, which inevitable happed in the 69th minute(4-3). We tried hard to push for the 5th goal but failed in the end. I hoped to get at least to the 2nd round, bit of luck was al we needed. Though I'm happy we have our first european win under our belt. Transfers Brought in a mixture of youngsters and experienced guys, most of them on free or loan. On the other hand our highly talented RB Adrian Ferencik left for Sparta Praha for a sum of 850K. I'm sad to let him leave but club owner would step if I refused such offer. Finances Much better this season. We have new sponsorship deal worth 300K per year plus 240K from Europa League plus whoping 850K from Ferencik transfer. All in all we quite ok, but without big money transfers we depend on the money from Europe. Three stars Jozef Spyrka - Our star player. Led the team in Goals (12), Assists (9), Chances created(11) and Av. Rating (7.26). Michal Kralovic - Playing as CM or DM he was our heartbeat, added few freekick goals and longshots. Mickael Nanizayamo - Summer signing, made great partnership with Denis Varga and I think he was a tad better this season. Youth intake Not worth mentioning. History Season Division Position Slovnaft Cup Champions League Europa League Notes and Achievements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2019/20 2. liga 3rd 3rd Round N/A N/A Bronze medal 2020/21 2. liga 1st 1st Round N/A N/A League Winner, Promotion 2021/22 Fortuna Liga 2nd 3rd Round N/A N/A Silver Medal 2022/23 Fortuna Liga 1st Winner N/A 1st Qual. Round League Winner, Cup Winner

Thank you. My hopes were high after last season and my eyes were completely focused on the title which would enable us to play Champions League (Slovakia has only 1 CL place so far).

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Taky Maly Yezzko / FC Košice / Season 3 - 2021/2022 Fortuna Liga - 2nd Quite an extraordinarily good season. Till the end we were in the title race with Trnava but our poor run of results (1W 5D 1L) in last 7 matches cost us the title. With 3 matches to go we were 1 point ahead of Trnava, then we lost the 1st place due to our drawing and trnava winng their game. We started the penultimate game of the season against Trnava with them leading by 1 point but managed to only a disappointing 0-0 draw. In the last game we burned totaly and lost against Zilina while Trnava sealed their title with concincing 4-1 win against Skalica. Bitter end but overal I am really happy with our performance in league. Slovnaft Cup - 3rd Round Managed to win only first two rounds with backup players, third round exit was quite disappointing since it came against 2. liga outfit of Dubnica. I hoped my players would fare better. Nevermind, more benchsitting for them. Transfers A lot of good young player came in this season, especially Jozef Spyrka, Peter Bencik and Michal Kralovic who I hope are going to lead the club in coming years. With european footbal coming following year I am trying to bring more player under 19 years old to get some homegrown players since my youth intakes are worthless so far. Finances Thanks to owner investments (540K) and fund raising (187K) we were kept in managable debt of few 100K. Due to our 2nd place finish in the league we can expect fair money from Europa League next season. Three stars Jozef Spyrka - 23 years old came in only in January, led the team from his AM(R) position. Peter Bencik - Played as IF on the AM(L) with really good return of 10G and 5A in 33 matches for 19 years old hot prospect. Denis Varga - Rock solid performances from young centre half. Youth intake Awfull intake again, signed nobody. History Season Division Position Slovnaft Cup Champions League Europa League Notes and Achievements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2019/20 2. liga 3rd 3rd Round N/A N/A Bronze medal 2020/21 2. liga 1st 1st Round N/A N/A League Winner, Promotion 2021/22 Fortuna Liga 2nd 3rd Round N/A N/A Silver Medal

Just don't give up man. You are going to break it. Try to change your tactics or something.

Thank you. Prize money and TV rights in Fortuna liga are still quite low (80K for league winner plus 60K from tv rights for every participant) so money from european competitions are only way to stabilize the club. We'll see how are we going to fare in country's top league.

Taky Maly Yezzko / FC Košice / Season 2 - 2020/2021 2. liga - Winner We finished the job we had started last season and surprisingly managed to win the league and promotion to Fortuna liga. It was kind of a start to finish affair. Playing the same 4330 tactic as we did last year we did not score a lot but were rock solid at the back with only 9 goals conceded during the 30-match-long season. Slovnaft Cup - 1st Round Early exit in the first round meant less playing time for our backup players. Transfers Signed a lot of players, some free's some loanees and highly talented slovakian D(R) Adrian Ferencik for club record fee of 60K (80K). David Berezny will leave at the end of the season since new young guns are taking his place and with his Determination rating of 2 I don't want to keep him around as a backup. Finances Another year of leaking money. Luckily board provided enough to get us out of red at the end of season. New sponsorship deal worth 195K for next season will help a lot. Three stars Kamil Karas - Not as stellar as the season before, but scored 7 of our 34 golas in the league, added 3 assists and led the team to glory. David Berezny - Another excellent season for him, lead the team with 7.27 rating. Filip Serecin - Top scorer of the team with 9 goals playing as Inside Forward on the left side. Youth intake Awfull intake, signed nobody. History Season Division Position Slovnaft Cup Champions League Europa League Notes and Achievements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2019/20 2. liga 3rd 3rd Round N/A N/A Bronze medal 2020/21 2. liga 1st 1st Round N/A N/A League Winner, Promotion

I think this is never going to happen due to licensing reasons. Somebody outside SI could do that though.