The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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 targets7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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 dugout7 Sep 2026
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
- The dugout Marko Pajač asks for a word with the manager
- Looking ahead Leon Šipoš faces his old club
- The dugout A door opens for Mirko Sušak