David Ereiz

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17 Sep 2026
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Process

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The Trnje Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A move Darije Markočević would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Darije Markočević is living that version at Trnje, and it tends to show in the first month.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 36 in, 21 out at Trnje

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 36 arrived, 21 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

A falling-out at Trnje

Ivan Mihaljević and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Trnje walk away from Roko Landeka

$21.0K was the most the club would pay and Dinamo Zagreb were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

Words at Trnje training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dino Šimunić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Transfer targets

HNK Rijeka tell Trnje: Branko Pavić is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Darije Markočević is a square peg at Trnje

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Market

A long bet from Trnje on Darije Markočević

He is 20, and nobody at Trnje signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

The dugout

Božidar Radošević has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Trnje will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

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The Trnje Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A move Ivan Roca would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ivan Roca is living that version at Trnje, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Božidar Radošević keeps Trnje in it on his own

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.

Transfer targets

Zvonimir Josić is a medical away from Trnje

The deal with HNK Gorica is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

David Ereiz signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David Ereiz commits to Trnje for another 3 years.

Market

As if he never left: Marko Guja returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Marko Guja is a Trnje player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Market

Ivan Mihaljević is a Trnje player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Squad

Tempers go at Trnje

Zvonko Pamić 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.

Player ratings

Nikola Jakovljević beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Transfer targets

Trnje rebuffed over Aleks Stojaković

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Zagreb have kept their man, and Trnje go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief