Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tiijan Zorko 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.
Three points for Solin, 2‑1 the final word against Segesta in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Patryk Palat was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.41. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to David Šćira, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
9 new faces, and Solin 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.
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Solin will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Solin will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
In brief
The dugoutThe plan did not have a place for Drago Šarić
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Matko Zirdum 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Solin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luka Ćurković, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
24 new faces, and Solin 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.
In brief
The dugoutDrago Šarić knocks on the manager's door
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matko Zirdum was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Minute 93, against Djakovo Croatia, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Mihael Bužić has, at Solin, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Solin can pretend not to have heard.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $6.0K — a club that wants Val Bogolin enough to be asked twice.
Solin have gone to Opatija with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matko Zirdum was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
He is 21 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.
The deal with NK Celje is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Solin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 9 actions, 6.59, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Solin know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Talha Tabaković is living that version at Solin, and it tends to show in the first month.
Ante Knezović 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matko Zirdum 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.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dino Stanisic has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Antonio Boric has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mato Corluka is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jakov Delibegović is living that version at Solin, and it tends to show in the first month.
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Nikola Šalinović is a Solin player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Leonard Vuk 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.
Solin asked and Lokomotiva Zagreb said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
He is doing his job and he is not settling. Solin were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Solin will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.