Marked for Renê Júnior
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market3 May 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad3 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Imotski this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 May 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Renê Júnior commits to Imotski for another 2 years.
Boardroom3 May 2027
The numbers do not look good at Imotski
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad3 May 2027
“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 37 with 4 appearances behind him, and Imotski have to plan for both answers.
Market3 May 2027
Imotski have let the market know Gustavo Corti can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market28 Dec 2026
Gustavo Corti 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 Imotski can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Imotski this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 303% of everything Imotski earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rubén García and Imotski agree another 2 years.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Gustavo Corti knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Imotski, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market28 Dec 2026
Imotski have made Gianluca Cangiano available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match24 Oct 2026
11 matches without a win for Imotski
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Imotski are no longer polite ones.
Market26 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Imotski may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Imotski this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A defender's afternoon for Aliou Dembélé
Defensive actions: 22. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gianluca Cangiano, and the manager let it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
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Player ratings
Nothing got past Mate Šuto
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Match
Point won or two lost for Imotski?
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Oct 2026
Imotski are in real trouble now
Position 10, 6 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match10 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Imotski's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Imotski has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Imotski this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to August Strömberg, and the manager let it.
Match10 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Imotski against Sibenik
0‑1 to Sibenik, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Renê Júnior has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Imotski know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I want to play”: João Victor speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Shots: 7. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market5 Oct 2026
Tobias Asenzo 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 Imotski can pretend not to have heard.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Imotski
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad5 Oct 2026
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Renê Júnior commits to Imotski for another 2 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Imotski know it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Gustavo Corti was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
458% of the income goes out in wages at Imotski
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match3 Oct 2026
Segesta left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.