ZELENKA SET TO LEAVE SPARTA
Sparta Praha midfielder Lukas Zelenka is set to join Vestel Manisaspor, having already agreed personal terms with the Turkish club. Manisaspor officials are now in talks with their Sparta counterparts, and are expected to complete the deal. According to Zelenka’s agent, Pavel Zika, the 26-year-old has signed a three-and-a-half year contract.
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SPARTA COMPLETE ZABAVNIK SIGNING
Sparta Praha have completed the signing of defender Radoslav Zabavnik, from CSKA Sofia. The 25-year-old international, who ranked seventh in a recent Slovak Footballer of the Year poll, has signed a contract that lasts until June 2008. Both clubs agreed not to disclose the transfer fee but it’s reported to be 400,000 [...]

SPARTA IN ZABAVNIK TALKS
Sparta Praha officials are involved in intensive negotiations over the transfer of CSKA Sofia defender Radoslav Zabavnik. If the talks are successful, Zabavnik would be Sparta’s third Slovak signing of the winter, joining defender Michal Hanek and midfielder Tomas Kona at Letna.
BAROS ADMITS HANDBALL
Aston Villa striker Milan Baros has admitted that he [...]

NEW ATLETICO OFFER FOR ROSICKY?
Chelsea’s reported interest in Spartak Moscow midfielder Nuno Maniche may mean that Tomas Rosicky’s move to Atletico Madrid is back on. Talks between Atletico and Borussia Dortmund over Rosicky had collapsed when the Madrid side was unwilling to meet Dortmund’s 13 million euro asking price. But the sale of Maniche – [...]

According to Borussia Dortmund’s managing director, Hans-Joachim Watzke, Tomas Rosicky will not be leaving the club in January. Watzke told the Die Welt newspaper’s website that transfer talks with Atletico Madrid had broken down and that the Czech playmaker would stay with Dortmund in the spring.
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ROSICKY PLAYS LAST GAME FOR DORTMUND?
Last night’s 3-0 German cup win over Lippstadt was probably Tomas Rosicky’s last game for Borussia Dortmund. The Czech international is expected to leave Dortmund in January, when the transfer window opens, with both Atletico Madrid and Arsenal linked to the 25-year-old playmaker. The German side have reportedly already lined [...]

WORLD CUP WARM-UPS IN PRAGUE, LIBEREC
The Czech football association (CMFS) are close to finalizing the dates and venues of three World Cup warm-up games. The first of these will be held in Innsbruck, Austria on May 26th. The next two games will be held on May 31st and June 3rd. One of these games is [...]

CECH WINS AUTUMN ‘ZLATY MIC’ VOTE
Petr Cech has won the autumn section of the “Zlaty mic” (Golden Ball) poll. The honour is given to the country’s best player, as chosen by Czech sports journalists. The overall winner will be known in June, when the results of the autumn and spring polls are combined. [I've posted [...]

1st Petr Cech (Chelsea, England), 1,121 points
2nd Vladimir Smicer (Bordeaux, France), 1,003
3rd Tomas Rosicky (Dortmund, Germany), 940
4th Pavel Nedved (Juventus, Italy), 890
5th Tomas Ujfalusi (Fiorentina, Italy), 826
6th Milan Baros (Aston Villa, England), 428
7th Rudolf Skacel (Hearts, Scotland), 376
8th Tomas Galasek (Ajax, Netherlands), 316
9th David Jarolim (Hamburg, Germany), 257
10th Jan Polak (Nurnberg, Germany), 213
11th Marek Jankulovski [...]

CZECHS STILL SECOND IN FIFA RANKINGS
In the final FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking of the year, the Czech national team has retained second place, behind Brazil.
REPORT: ARSENAL WANT ROSICKY
Tomas Rosicky is Arsenal’s top transfer target, according to the British newspaper the Sunday Mirror. The Czech midfielder had been linked with a move to Atletico Madrid, but Borussia [...]