The Jarun Zagreb Sentinel
Squad27 Sep 2027
Words at Jarun Zagreb training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yannick Touré 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Words exchanged at Jarun Zagreb
James Wright 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.
The terraces27 Sep 2027
One of their own: Vito Matijević
He is 23 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.
Match25 Sep 2027
Jarun Zagreb find a way past Rudes
Rudes made Jarun Zagreb work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Xie Hongyu wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Jarun Zagreb can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Yannick Touré takes the honours
Marked 7.86 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Jarun Zagreb had the best player on the pitch.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Too much change too quickly at Jarun Zagreb
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
Hrvoje Corluka: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Antonio Klarić-Kukuz
“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.
In brief
- Looking ahead Ivan Tuškan faces his old club
- Market Bas Brouwers is free to find somewhere else
- Market The Vito Matijević story refuses to die