Lovre Kulušić

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Dinamo Zagreb U20
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Marked for Lovre Kulušić

33 Edition

The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad15 Mar 2027

A falling-out at Lokomotiva Zagreb

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

Boardroom15 Mar 2027

Lokomotiva Zagreb still without a manager

14 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.

Squad15 Mar 2027

Lokomotiva Zagreb lose Lovre Kulušić

19 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout15 Mar 2027

The manager makes an example of Marko Pajač

“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.

Loan watch15 Mar 2027

Luka Savatović has seen enough of Segesta

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Lokomotiva Zagreb, and 5 appearances in 30 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad15 Mar 2027

A row about effort at Lokomotiva Zagreb

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

The dugout15 Mar 2027

Fran Karačić knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Fran Karačić trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market15 Mar 2027

The Fran Topić story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Fran Topić signs something — a contract at Lokomotiva Zagreb or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Loan watch15 Mar 2027

4 goals on loan for Mate Antunović

20 appearances at Podbeskidzie and the goals keep coming. Lokomotiva Zagreb are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief

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29 Edition

The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market15 Feb 2027

Petar Andrić agrees terms with Neftekhimik

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Lokomotiva Zagreb people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad15 Feb 2027

A falling-out at Lokomotiva Zagreb

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

Squad15 Feb 2027

Lovre Kulušić out for 51 days

The medical room confirms 51 days on the sidelines for Lovre Kulušić, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Loan watch15 Feb 2027

Luka Savatović counts the days

“I watch every Lokomotiva Zagreb game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Segesta runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout15 Feb 2027

Marijan Čabraja is still paying for one afternoon at Lokomotiva Zagreb

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Squad15 Feb 2027

No place for Ivan Božić in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Lokomotiva Zagreb are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout15 Feb 2027

Jakov Gurlica 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.

The dugout15 Feb 2027

Oliver Heiðarsson has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Lokomotiva Zagreb 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.

Market15 Feb 2027

The Josip Posavec question follows Lokomotiva Zagreb around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Josip Posavec’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

24 Edition

The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match6 Jan 2027

The small margins put Lokomotiva Zagreb out

Out, 2‑2 to NK Osijek, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

A brace, and Lovre Kulušić takes the afternoon — 9.00

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Lovre Kulušić provided it, and the 9.00 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market11 Jan 2027

Jakov-Anton Vasilj hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lokomotiva Zagreb can pretend not to have heard.

Market11 Jan 2027

Terms done: Krunoslav Hendija is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Hrvatski Dragovoljac waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Lokomotiva Zagreb is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

The dugout11 Jan 2027

Dimitrije Kamenović says Lokomotiva Zagreb went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Charlie Gray arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Charlie Gray has, at Lokomotiva Zagreb, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

Branco Salinardi is a medical away from Lokomotiva Zagreb

The deal with San Lorenzo is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market11 Jan 2027

HNK Gorica come back empty-handed

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

Squad11 Jan 2027

Niko Galešić 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 Lokomotiva Zagreb this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief