The Beltinci Post
Market19 Jun 2028
Luka Pučnik agrees terms with Liepaja
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Beltinci people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market19 Jun 2028
Murat Bajraj is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Beltinci is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market19 Jun 2028
Pino Žeželj 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 Beltinci can pretend not to have heard.
Market19 Jun 2028
Beltinci turn down Koper for Nejc Bencak
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Words exchanged at Beltinci
Murat Bajraj and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad19 Jun 2028
A row about effort at Beltinci
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Stefan Moćić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Zain Tahir wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Beltinci know it.
Boardroom19 Jun 2028
The Beltinci debt reaches $11.3M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
The dugout19 Jun 2028
The manager makes an example of Zain Tahir
“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.
In brief
- Match Beltinci have something to play for
- Squad Elyas Spahic: “I am not a substitute”
- The dugout Vid Šumenjak knocks on the manager’s door