Ibrahim Sabra

Striker - Lokomotiva Zagreb
29 Dec 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Ibrahim Sabra

18 Edition

The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Lokomotiva Zagreb

13 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

Lokomotiva Zagreb come up short in Europe

0‑2 away to the standard of Willem II. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.

Squad

Fran Karačić 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.

Squad

Josip Posavec reaches 200 appearances

200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Squad

A row about effort at Lokomotiva Zagreb

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marko Pajač was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Looking ahead

Lokomotiva Zagreb face HNK Vukovar 1991 in the game that matters most

Two sides from the bottom of the table, three points, and an afternoon that will be described afterwards as a relegation decider by whoever loses it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Marko Pajač

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Aleksandar Trajkovski

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Loan watch

Matija Subotić wants to come home

“I did not go to NK Osijek to sit and watch. I want to come back to Lokomotiva Zagreb and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 15 matches say the rest.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Lokomotiva Zagreb do the business in Europe

1‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Lokomotiva Zagreb came through the finding-out well against Willem II.

Match

Ibrahim Sabra leads the rout of HNK Vukovar 1991

3‑0, and Ibrahim Sabra took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Lokomotiva Zagreb tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Both of them Ibrahim Sabra's — 8.49

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.49, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Bendegúz Kovács, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.30

A mark of 8.30 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Marko Vešović 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.

Squad

Josip Elez 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Ibrahim Sabra

He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Luka Dajčer

20 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Player ratings

Marko Vešović beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

6 Edition

The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Marko Pajač 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 3 signed and 8 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.

Transfer targets

No deal for Anton Matković at that price

Lokomotiva Zagreb offered $1.2M; NK Osijek said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Market

Krunoslav Hendija’s move to NK Osijek falls through

The deal that would have taken Krunoslav Hendija to NK Osijek has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Lokomotiva Zagreb with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Market

Allyson is a Lokomotiva Zagreb player

The fee is $200.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Rudes drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

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

Door shut on Samuli Miettinen

Lokomotiva Zagreb asked and Istra 1961 said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Istra 1961 join the queue for Dino Godec

Add another name to the list: Istra 1961 have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Dino Godec. The answer from Lokomotiva Zagreb has not changed — yet.

Squad

Words at Lokomotiva Zagreb training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bendegúz Kovács 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.

In brief