The Lucko Gazette
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Hassan Muhammad at 20 — 8.00
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Hassan Muhammad did not need any: 8.00, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Niko Đolonga signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Niko Đolonga and Lucko agree another 4 years.
Match1 Aug 2026
Lucko get the job done against Solin
A 3‑2 win over Solin, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
HNK Rijeka tell Lucko: 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.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Lovro Stanić
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Lucko
David Tabak 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Lucko has picked up the phone to Niko Đolonga
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Lucko try to borrow Ammeer Auwal
Rudes have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Lucko ask about Gabriel Pehar
A loan enquiry to Orijent 1919: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
- Squad Lucko are still strangers to each other
- The dugout Marko Rebic: “That is the standard”
- Squad The first one for Hassan Muhammad