Marked for Bartol Kardum
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Karlo Žiger 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 Sesvete this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Bryan Eyenga Lokilo 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 130% of everything Sesvete earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Robert Marijanović commits to Sesvete for another 3 years.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Moses Zambrang Barnabas 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
6 unbeaten for Sesvete
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Sesvete did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Bryan Eyenga Lokilo 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.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
20 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
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Steady
Market9 Nov 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sesvete, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sesvete this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Sesvete training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bryan Eyenga Lokilo 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Sesvete make home a hard place to visit
8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match7 Nov 2026
Honours even between Sesvete and Rudes
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Upbeat
Squad2 Nov 2026
Karlo Žiger decides it from twelve yards
3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match28 Oct 2026
Sesvete through in the cup
A 1‑1 win over Hajduk Split, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sesvete will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
No sign of nerves from Bartol Kardum at 20 — 7.77
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Bartol Kardum did not need any: 7.77, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Karlo Žiger 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 terraces2 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Robert Marijanović 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Antonio Kuš, and the manager let it.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 130% of everything Sesvete earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
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Upbeat
Market10 Aug 2026
Sesvete say no — this time
The offer from HNK Vukovar 1991 for Antonio Kuš 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 ratings10 Aug 2026
Bartol Kardum, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.39
A mark of 8.39 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad10 Aug 2026
42 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sesvete this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
21 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
21 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ivan Omazić has left for Imotski in a $39.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Sesvete training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Karlo Žiger 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 terraces10 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Roko Brajković 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.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tino Agić and Sesvete agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Moses Zambrang Barnabas 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Viktor Kanižaj
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ivan Radošević 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Sesvete, another week without a signature from Antonio Kuš.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Sesvete has been clear about where Marko Ivan Gašparac stands, which is more than many ever get.