Mirko Sušak

Right Midfielder - Lokomotiva Zagreb
5 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Mirko Sušak

5 Edition

The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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

Back issues
3 Edition

The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Lokomotiva Zagreb win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 94th minute. Slaven Belupo will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Player ratings

A brace, and Oliver Heiðarsson takes the afternoon — 8.49

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Oliver Heiðarsson provided it, and the 8.49 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Lokomotiva Zagreb say no — this time

The offer from Dinamo Zagreb for Cheikh Mbacke Diop was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Aleksandar Trajkovski yet — 8.03

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.03 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match

Lokomotiva Zagreb find a way past Slaven Belupo

Slaven Belupo made Lokomotiva Zagreb work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Words at Lokomotiva Zagreb training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Sigali 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.

The terraces

Lokomotiva Zagreb supporters have found a favourite in Aleks Stojaković

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Aleks Stojaković has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

Mario Šitum gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Aleks Stojaković

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

2 Edition

The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Lokomotiva Zagreb taken apart

0‑3 to Dinamo Zagreb, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Lokomotiva Zagreb say no — this time

The offer from Dinamo Zagreb for Marko Vešović was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Leonardo Sigali signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Leonardo Sigali and Lokomotiva Zagreb agree another 2 years.

Squad

No hiding place for Leonardo Sigali

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

Market

Imotski join the queue for Carlo Mateković

Add another name to the list: Imotski have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Carlo Mateković. The answer from Lokomotiva Zagreb has not changed — yet.

Squad

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.

Squad

Mirko Sušak 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 Lokomotiva Zagreb this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Lokomotiva Zagreb dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Market

Still no ink between Lokomotiva Zagreb and Kauã Alves

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

In brief