The Rudes Chronicle
Match7 Sep 2026
Rudes are in real trouble now
Position 8, 4 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Rudes
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Rudes are no longer polite ones.
Market7 Sep 2026
Luka Popović 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 Rudes can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A move Facundo Moreira 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. Facundo Moreira is living that version at Rudes, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Rudes
Dominik Mulac 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Rudes training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kristijan Lovrić 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Kristijan Lovrić
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kristijan Lovrić, and the manager let it.
Match5 Sep 2026
Sesvete take the points off Rudes
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Karlo Kamenar runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market Rudes buy the years ahead of Facundo Moreira
- Player ratings The one thing Duje Korač could not do
- Player ratings Off the pace: Ante Sušak