The Uskok Herald
Market14 Feb 2028
Baltazar Bogolin puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Uskok, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Uskok
Lovro Gubijan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Jack Fanning gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jack Fanning has just signed for Uskok, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets14 Feb 2028
Door shut on Mislav Ćutuk
Uskok 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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Words at Uskok training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mihael Bužić 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 terraces14 Feb 2028
The crowd has taken to Lovro Gubijan
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Boardroom14 Feb 2028
Wages eat 126% of everything Uskok 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.
Market14 Feb 2028
Uskok and Karlo Darojković are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Nobody on the pitch touched Lovro Gubijan
7.41, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Uskok had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
In brief
- The dugout Vito Čilić has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout No hiding place for Marko Zubaj
- The dugout Mislav Orsic: “We have to be better”