From our football correspondent
Steady
Market5 Feb 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sibenik they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market5 Feb 2029
He is 19, and nobody at Sibenik signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Iacovelli gets it from the manager“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Juninho is not saying it is over“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 36 with 11 appearances behind him, and Sibenik have to plan for both answers.
Squad5 Feb 2029
A new face in his position, and Christian Ilić suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Sibenik have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market5 Feb 2029
The window shut and Antonio Imširović is still in the building
Sibenik spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.
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Steady
Squad29 Jan 2029
Iacovelli : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Sibenik have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market29 Jan 2029
“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.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Tin Došen gets it from the manager“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Iacovelli Iacovelli: that is not what I was promised
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Steady
Squad11 Dec 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market11 Dec 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sibenik they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad11 Dec 2028
The manager makes an example of Ante Šimović
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Maro Mrndže Maro Mrndže says Sibenik went back on their word
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Crisis
Squad30 Oct 2028
Robert Ćosić gets it from the manager“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match28 Oct 2028
Dugopolje left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom30 Oct 2028
Wages eat 89% of everything Sibenik 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.
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Steady
Match23 Oct 2028
Sibenik are in among the leadersPosition 3 and 24 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad23 Oct 2028
Leonard Vuk left out for the big oneA player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Leonard Vuk will call it something else in private.
Squad23 Oct 2028
The manager makes an example of Iacovelli
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Upbeat
Market4 Sep 2028
Lucko come back empty-handedThe bid was some way short and Sibenik did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match2 Sep 2028
Imotski made Sibenik work for it, but the scoreboard read 3-2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad4 Sep 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sebastián Medina commits to Sibenik for another 2 years.
Squad4 Sep 2028
The manager makes an example of Juninho
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad4 Sep 2028
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Sibenik have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market4 Sep 2028
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
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Upbeat
Match23 Aug 2028
Sibenik bow out of the cupSesvete go through and Sibenik go home, 0-1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match28 Aug 2028
Sibenik up to position 312 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market28 Aug 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad28 Aug 2028
The manager makes an example of Eljon Toci
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match26 Aug 2028
Three points for Sibenik , 1-0 the final word against Dugopolje in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market28 Aug 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Sibenik will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad28 Aug 2028
At 19 years old, Ante Šimović became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Iacovelli asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Somebody is after Maro Mrndže ’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Maro Mrndže suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Sibenik have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Uneasy
Market12 Jun 2028
Savely Zolkin 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 Sibenik can pretend not to have heard.
Squad12 Jun 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Sebastián Medina asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Market1 May 2028
Ivan Buva 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 Sibenik can pretend not to have heard.
Loan watch1 May 2028
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Sibenik , and 7 appearances in 37 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad1 May 2028
The manager makes an example of Iacovelli
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Ivan Buva Ivan Buva hands in a written request
Squad1 May 2028
Tomislav Božić asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market1 May 2028
Sibenik have made Josip Baturina available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Loan watch1 May 2028
7 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Uneasy
Market24 Jan 2028
“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.
Market24 Jan 2028
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Sibenik have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad24 Jan 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Crisis
Market4 Oct 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sibenik can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Oct 2027
The medical room confirms 68 days on the sidelines for Welligton , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Toni Španja and Sibenik agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Steady
Squad5 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Iacovelli
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Welligton keeps his manager's voteThe message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Welligton plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
Iacovelli The manager makes an example of Iacovelli
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Steady
Boardroom28 Jun 2027
Wages eat 87% of everything Sibenik 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 Jun 2027
Iacovelli asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Leonard Vuk keeps his manager's voteThe message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Leonard Vuk plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
Iacovelli Iacovelli asks for a word with the manager
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Steady
Match17 May 2027
Sibenik are in among the leadersPosition 2 and 26 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market17 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.
Squad17 May 2027
Iacovelli asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 May 2027
Iacovelli : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Sibenik have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad10 May 2027
Robert Ćosić keeps his manager's voteThe message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Robert Ćosić plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
Iacovelli Iacovelli: that is not what I was promised