Jakov Gurlica

Central Defender - Lokomotiva Zagreb
19 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Jakov Gurlica

6 Edition

The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Marko Divković due for a Lokomotiva Zagreb medical

Everything agreed with Brondby, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market

Jakov-Anton Vasilj asks to leave Lokomotiva Zagreb

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 4 signed and 7 gone

That is the business done at Lokomotiva Zagreb 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Lokomotiva Zagreb

Marko Vešović 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.

Transfer targets

NK Osijek tell Lokomotiva Zagreb: David Kalem 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

Aleksandar Trajkovski calls time on his country

“98 caps was 98 more than the boy who started ever expected.” At 34 he has stepped away from the national side and has not stepped away from Lokomotiva Zagreb.

Squad

Marko Pajač 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.

Squad

Mirko Marić is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Mirko Marić has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Jakov Gurlica

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief