The Sibenik Post
Market8 Mar 2027
Josip Baturina is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sibenik is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A move Pius Igwe 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. Pius Igwe is living that version at Sibenik, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Sibenik count the cost of losing Marko Mikulić
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Toni Španja stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Toni Španja and Sibenik agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Toni Španja 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 Sibenik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
When it matters, Karlo Špeljak plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Market The Mihael Rebernik question follows Sibenik around
- The dugout Stipe Rupić knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Sibenik shop where it costs nothing
- The dugout The manager comes out for Jakov Miholić