“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what HNK Vukovar 1991 can pretend not to have heard.
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Dinamo Zagreb heard it as anything else.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Slaven Belupo, and it is not being withdrawn.
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at HNK Rijeka heard it as anything else.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slaven Belupo can pretend not to have heard.
The offer from HNK Rijeka for Robin Gonzalez 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.
The deal that would have taken Šime Perko to Rudes has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Hajduk Split with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at NK Osijek, and it is not being withdrawn.
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Dinamo Zagreb hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Florent Shehu will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around HNK Rijeka the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Marked 8.29 across it, 3 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. HNK Rijeka have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Istra 1961
Allen Obando was marked 7.24 and had a hand in 2 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a NK Osijek player marked 5.46, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a HNK Rijeka man
Tiago Dantas averaged 8.29 over 3 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at HNK Rijeka heard it as anything else.
2 in 3 for Istra 1961. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 4 appearances for HNK Rijeka.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Hugo Guillamón is the division's player of the month — 8.18
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Hajduk Split man on 8.18 with 2 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Ibrahim Sabra is the month's best young player — 7.29
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.29 over the month and 3 goal contributions, from a Lokomotiva Zagreb player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what HNK Vukovar 1991 can pretend not to have heard.
4 assists, 8.05, and a Dinamo Zagreb player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a Hajduk Split man
Hugo Guillamón averaged 8.18 over 5 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Dinamo Zagreb hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Lokomotiva Zagreb, another week without a signature from Nikola Soldo.
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a NK Varazdin man on 8.48 with 3 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Ibrahim Sabra is the month's best young player — 7.56
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.56 over the month and 3 goal contributions, from a Lokomotiva Zagreb player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
The offer from Sesvete for Antonio Maurić 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.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Ivica Ivušić leads the division for assists — 6.43
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Hajduk Split player marked 6.43, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Toni Fruk is the division's best-marked player — 8.86
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.86 across 2 matches for HNK Rijeka.
3 in 4 for Lokomotiva Zagreb. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
The phone has started ringing about Hadji Issa Moustapha again, and this time the name on the line is Istra 1961. HNK Gorica are listening politely and promising nothing.
Marked 8.24 across it, 5 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. HNK Rijeka have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Luka Vrbančić is the month's best young player — 7.40
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.40 over the month and 1 goal contributions, from a NK Osijek player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Istra 1961 can pretend not to have heard.
The offer from Galatasaray for Dion Beljo 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.
2 assists, 7.32, and a HNK Vukovar 1991 player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a HNK Rijeka man
Toni Fruk averaged 8.24 over 5 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around HNK Rijeka they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Dinamo Zagreb heard it as anything else.
2 in 5 for Hajduk Split. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at HNK Rijeka heard it as anything else.
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.