The Slaven Belupo Chronicle
Match14 Oct 2028
Still nobody has beaten Slaven Belupo
The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad16 Oct 2028
Ivan Čović keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Slaven Belupo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market16 Oct 2028
Filip Mažar has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slaven Belupo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Oct 2028
Tempers go at Slaven Belupo
Nikola Soldo 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.
Squad16 Oct 2028
Slaven Belupo count the cost of losing Andro Sokač
44 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad16 Oct 2028
The manager makes an example of Mateo Cardona
“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.
Player ratings16 Oct 2028
A masterclass from Nikola Soldo
Marked 8.39 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings16 Oct 2028
One of those days for Karlo Špeljak
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.35, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings16 Oct 2028
One of those days for Ivan Božić
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.21, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Match Slaven Belupo and Dugopolje take a point apiece
- Player ratings Šimun Mikolčić leaves them behind him
- Market Charles Agada placed on the list