Mark Šerbec

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Nafta 1903
23 Dec 2026
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Process

Marked for Mark Šerbec

6 Edition

The Nafta 1903 Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Balázs Bakti out for 20 days

20 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Nafta 1903 lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Brinje Grosuplje come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Nafta 1903 did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Domen Brumec asks to leave Nafta 1903

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 18 signed and 10 gone

That is the business done at Nafta 1903 until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market

Domen Brumec’s move to NK Domzale falls through

The deal that would have taken Domen Brumec to NK Domzale has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Nafta 1903 with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad

A move Mark Šerbec would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Mark Šerbec is living that version at Nafta 1903, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

A row about effort at Nafta 1903

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

Squad

A falling-out at Nafta 1903

Peter Cverle and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Peter Cverle gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Nafta 1903 Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Balázs Bakti damages knee ligaments — 27 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 27 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.

Match

Luka Pihler leads the rout of Bistrica

3‑0, and Luka Pihler took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Nafta 1903 tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Both of them Luka Pihler's — 8.15

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.15, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Rok Pirtovšek asks to leave Nafta 1903

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Kisvárda come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Nafta 1903 did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Mark Šerbec due for a Nafta 1903 medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Taj Rožič Šuligoj rejects the move

Nafta 1903 had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at ND Gorica, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Match

Nafta 1903 make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Nafta 1903 have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Words at Nafta 1903 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oliver Kregar 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.

In brief