Habeeb Ogunneye

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18 Feb 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Habeeb Ogunneye

29 Edition

The Dugopolje Post

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words exchanged at Dugopolje

Tomislav Adolf Tomić 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

Tristán Suárez tell Dugopolje: Gianluca Ruggi 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Roko Kurtović

“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.

Squad

Words at Dugopolje training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Smodlaka 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.

Market

Still no ink between Dugopolje and Habeeb Ogunneye

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dugopolje, another week without a signature from Habeeb Ogunneye.

Squad

An aura around Habeeb Ogunneye

Where he used to play does most of his talking for him at Dugopolje. The room defers to it, the kids study it, and the only thing that can puncture it is a bad month.

In brief

Back issues
27 Edition

The Dugopolje Post

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Dugopolje close the window on a squad of their own making

6 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

A move Jack Thompson would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jack Thompson is living that version at Dugopolje, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Tomislav Adolf Tomić 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 Dugopolje this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Josip Špoljarić

Dugopolje asked and HNK Vukovar 1991 said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words at Dugopolje training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ante Utrobičić 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.

Squad

Leonel Ortíz is a square peg at Dugopolje

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Market

Habeeb Ogunneye already looking beyond Dugopolje

He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.

Transfer targets

Dugopolje ask about Pablo Ortiz

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

Market

The Bruno Zdunić story refuses to die

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

In brief