David Katić

Central Defender - Lokomotiva Zagreb U20
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Process

Marked for David Katić

39 Edition

The Trnje Chronicle

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

David Ereiz damages knee ligaments — 129 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 129 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Trnje

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Trnje is running low.

Squad

Zvonko Pamić 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 Trnje this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Branko Pavić 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 dugout

No hiding place for David Ereiz

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to David Ereiz, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Branko Pavić has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Trnje will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

Back issues
32 Edition

The Trnje Chronicle

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

David Ereiz runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Trnje strike at the death to beat Lucko

There were 87 minutes on the clock and Lucko had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Trnje did not stop to explain themselves.

Player ratings

Branko Pavić, 20, steals the show — 8.21

Marked 8.21 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

The dugout

David Katić keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Trnje may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Božidar Radošević signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Božidar Radošević and Trnje agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Trnje

Oliver Sumić 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Trnje

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zvonko Pamić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Trnje find a way past Lucko

Lucko made Trnje work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

One of their own: Branko Pavić

He is 20 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.

In brief