2025/26 winter stocktake: AC Sparta Praha

Brian Priske is no Messiah. The boring reality of his return to the club he’d led to two titles — one shocking, one dominant — is that this campaign could’ve gone a lot better, but also much worse. With the model shaving just one victory off Sparta’s summer forecast, there’s even an argument to be made that the season has, in fact, gone according to expectations and perhaps even the plan. After all, standing 7 points behind the Christmas leaders has already served Sparta well once, and Slavia do seem more fragile than in 2025…

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2025/26 team preview: AC Sparta Praha

You’re not supposed to step into the same river twice — but Brian Priske isn’t much for proverbs, as evidenced by his less-than-blessed attempt to prove that the grass is greener in Rotterdam. Just a year after guiding Sparta to a long-awaited double, he’s back at Letná, undeterred by a short-lived and rather damp detour at Feyenoord. It wasn’t exactly a triumphant leap to a bigger pond, but Sparta fans won’t mind. To them, he’s still the man who had turned water into wine — and they’ll happily take a second vintage.

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