Petar Vuko

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The Varteks Post

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad6 Sep 2027

Tvrtko Buljan breaks a bone — 70 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 70 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market6 Sep 2027

Petar Vuko puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Varteks, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

Deadline passes with 10 signed and 1 gone

That is the business done at Varteks until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Oliver Sumić 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 Varteks this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets6 Sep 2027

Varteks rebuffed over Tin Lovren

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

The dugout6 Sep 2027

No hiding place for Tvrtko Buljan

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tvrtko Buljan, and the manager let it.

Squad6 Sep 2027

A step back for Lovre Borovičkić at Varteks

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

The dugout6 Sep 2027

Varteks keep their word to Luka Dajčer

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Too much change too quickly at Varteks

6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

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The Varteks Post

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets5 Jul 2027

Sven Šunta turns down Varteks

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Dinamo Zagreb keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Tempers go at Varteks

Oliver Sumić 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.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Mihael Besek pulls a muscle — 14 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Transfer targets5 Jul 2027

Varteks rebuffed over Filip Jagarčec

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

The dugout5 Jul 2027

No hiding place for Marko Cukon

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marko Cukon, and the manager let it.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Tvrtko Buljan 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.

The dugout5 Jul 2027

Vito Čilić is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Transfer targets5 Jul 2027

Varteks ask about Sven Šunta

A loan enquiry to Dinamo Zagreb: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Marko Cukon wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Varteks will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

In brief

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The Varteks Post

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad3 May 2027

Words exchanged at Varteks

Oliver Sumić 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.

Squad3 May 2027

Caio Cruz 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.

The dugout3 May 2027

Patrik Majdandžić is still paying for one afternoon at Varteks

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Boardroom3 May 2027

Varteks counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Varteks now.

The dugout3 May 2027

Marko Cukon knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Marko Cukon trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout3 May 2027

No hiding place for Petar Vuko

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Petar Vuko, and the manager let it.

In brief

38 Edition

The Varteks Post

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout19 Apr 2027

Tvrtko Buljan says Varteks went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad19 Apr 2027

A falling-out at Varteks

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

Squad19 Apr 2027

Words at Varteks training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Caio Cruz 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.

Boardroom19 Apr 2027

Wages eat 158% of everything Varteks earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

No hiding place for Tin Zavalić

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tin Zavalić, and the manager let it.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

Lovre Borovičkić asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market19 Apr 2027

The Vito Čilić story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Vito Čilić signs something — a contract at Varteks or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

Toni Vidović has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Toni Vidović has written the date down.

The terraces19 Apr 2027

The stands have heard the Caio Cruz talk too

What was a back-page story is now a matter for the terraces, and the terraces do not do nuance. Varteks would like it dealt with before it becomes the only question anybody asks.

In brief