There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Levente Szondi is living that version at Siauliai, and it tends to show in the first month.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zarija Lambulić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Veljko Bogićević and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Siauliai, and it is not being withdrawn.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Tenyaev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Siauliai are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Siauliai is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Zarija Lambulić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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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.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Siauliai are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Edin Ajdinović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.