The Nafta 1903 Courier
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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 dugout7 Sep 2026
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
- Market A long bet from Nafta 1903 on Mark Šerbec
- The dugout When it matters, Anis Jašaragić plays
- The dugout Tibor Gorenc Stankovič knocks on the manager's door