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The Druga HNL Gazette

1 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Daniel Erceg

The month closes with Daniel Erceg out in front — 4 goals in 4 games, and Zadar have the division's most feared finisher.

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Daniel Erceg is the division's player of the month — 7.91

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 Zadar man on 7.91 with 5 goal contributions.

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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Rudes

Matteo Pérez Vinlöf was marked 7.94 and had a hand in 1 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.

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Norman Díaz hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lucko can pretend not to have heard.

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Nobody made more than Marko Galić this month

4 assists, 7.09, and a Cibalia 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.

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Matteo Pérez Vinlöf is the division's best-marked player — 7.94

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. 7.94 across 2 matches for Rudes.

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Gabrijel Boban up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Cibalia — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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Viktor Kanižaj up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Sesvete — 2 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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Dimitar Trajkov is right behind him

2 goals in 4 appearances for Dugopolje, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

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Still scoring: Ivan Vukovic

2 in 4 for Zadar. 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.

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12 months and counting on Ivan Čović

Still no offer on the table, and Ivan Čović’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

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The Toni Španja question follows Sibenik around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Toni Španja’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

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The Druga HNL Gazette

1 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Daniel Erceg

The month closes with Daniel Erceg out in front — 3 goals in 5 games, and Zadar have the division's most feared finisher.

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The month belonged to Daniel Erceg

Marked 6.94 across it, 4 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Zadar have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.

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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Sesvete

Mateo Bačić was marked 6.77 and had a hand in 3 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.

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Rodrigo Accinelli hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hrvatski Dragovoljac can pretend not to have heard.

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Zadar turn down NK Varazdin for Daniel Erceg

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

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Nobody made more than Pavao Vugdelija this month

2 assists, 7.67, and a Imotski 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.

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Highest marks in the league belong to a Imotski man

Pavao Vugdelija averaged 7.67 over 2 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.

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Still scoring: Tobías Donsanti

3 in 4 for Sibenik. 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.

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Matej Jukić makes the list

4 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Still scoring: Mateo Bačić

2 in 5 for Sesvete. 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.

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Goran Vlasic is right behind him

3 goals in 2 appearances for Zadar, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

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Sibenik and Jon McLaughlin are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

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The Druga HNL Gazette

1 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Petar Brlek is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Cibalia has been clear about where Petar Brlek stands, which is more than many ever get.

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Nobody at Rudes has picked up the phone to Jurica Poldrugač

10 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

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Zadar put Tin Livaja up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Tin Livaja may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.