Jakov Pranjić

Central Midfielder - NK Celje
26 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Jakov Pranjić

12 Edition

The NK Celje Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Jakov Pranjić runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

NK Celje come up short against NK Krka

NK Krka left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Damjan Vuklišević falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Mark Zabukovnik

“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.

Loan watch

Žan-Luk Leban has seen enough of LNZ

“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 NK Celje, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

NK Celje pick somebody else ahead of Ivan Ćalušić

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

Back issues
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The NK Celje Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The terraces

NK Celje sell a favourite for $560.0K

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Luka Kolar was one of the reasons people came, and $560.0K does not replace that by itself.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Matej Poplatnik yet — 8.05

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.05 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

NK Celje turn down NK Zavrc for Žan-Luk Leban

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

Market

NK Celje sell Luka Kolar for $560.0K

Luka Kolar has left for NK Domzale in a $560.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Damjan Vuklišević falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Papa Daniel in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at NK Celje this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Tilen Letonja

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Tilen Letonja has come out of that comparison in the side, and NK Celje have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Match

NK Celje share the spoils with NK Maribor

A 1‑1 draw with NK Maribor leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

Damjan Vuklišević loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Damjan Vuklišević. NK Celje will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

In brief