The Trnje Chronicle
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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 targets7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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 targets7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
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 dugout7 Sep 2026
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
- Looking ahead David Ereiz goes back to face Hrvatski Dragovoljac
- Market Branko Pavić arrives on loan
- Market Samuli Miettinen arrives on loan