The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier
Market31 Aug 2026
Gentrit Salihu hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lokomotiva Zagreb can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Lokomotiva Zagreb — 7.57
1 for Tino Jukić, marked 7.57, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Lokomotiva Zagreb
Marko Vešović 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Lokomotiva Zagreb are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Match29 Aug 2026
Tino Jukić’s goal not enough for Lokomotiva Zagreb
Tino Jukić scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Hajduk Split, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Claudio Acosta 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Dimitrije Kamenović
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and Lokomotiva Zagreb are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market31 Aug 2026
Lokomotiva Zagreb bring in an old head
Franco Flores is 39 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
In brief
- Market Elton brings the grey hairs Lokomotiva Zagreb lacked
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Mirko Sušak
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Marko Batur’s exile