Amil Siljevic

Goalkeeper - Magdeburg
19 Jun 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Amil Siljevic

148 Edition

The Magdeburg Sentinel

28 May 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Virgil Ghiţă 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 Magdeburg can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Magdeburg

Ionuţ Radu was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Mateusz Żukowski falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Jean Hugonet

“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.

The dugout

Kamron Dimata-Gomis asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

Magdeburg put Alexander Ahl Holmström up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Alexander Ahl Holmström may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

Market

Alexander Ahl Holmström runs his contract down

5 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Magdeburg money.

The terraces

The Kacper Kościerski rumours reach the terraces

What was a back-page link has become a chant, and the chant is not friendly. Magdeburg would rather it were settled quietly, and it has stopped being quiet.

The dugout

Amil Siljevic has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Amil Siljevic has written the date down.

In brief

Back issues
147 Edition

The Magdeburg Sentinel

21 May 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

The interim tag comes off Interim Coach

Magdeburg interviewed the field and appointed the corridor: Interim Coach keeps the job he had been doing in all but title. Sometimes the safest pair of hands is the one already holding the wheel.

Market

Hicham Mahou 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 Magdeburg can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Ionuţ Radu 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 Magdeburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Magdeburg lose Francesco Gelli

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

Squad

Grant Ranos falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ousseynou Bodian

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ousseynou Bodian, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Virgil Ghiţă knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Magdeburg, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Mateusz Żukowski question follows Magdeburg around

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

Market

Still no signature from Francesco Gelli

4 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Magdeburg could get for him.

In brief

69 Edition

The Magdeburg Sentinel

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

A brace, and Victor Boniface takes the afternoon — 8.80

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Victor Boniface provided it, and the 8.80 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

The dugout

Amil Siljevic keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Magdeburg may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Victor Boniface 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 Magdeburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Magdeburg see off Preußen Münster

Three points for Magdeburg, 2‑0 the final word against Preußen Münster in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The dugout

No hiding place for Rico Preißinger

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rico Preißinger, and the manager let it.

Squad

A row about effort at Magdeburg

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

Squad

9 new faces, and Magdeburg are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Loan watch

Luka Hyryläinen has seen enough of Eintracht Braunschweig

“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 Magdeburg, and 3 appearances in 19 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Christian Klein, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

In brief