The Hrvatski Dragovoljac Courier
The terraces20 Jan 2031
Anger at Hrvatski Dragovoljac spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match20 Jan 2031
Hrvatski Dragovoljac sink to position 9
12 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Transfer targets20 Jan 2031
No thanks: Marko Zubaj rejects the move
Hrvatski Dragovoljac had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at NK Osijek, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad20 Jan 2031
Words exchanged at Hrvatski Dragovoljac
Antonio Jakoliš 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.
Squad20 Jan 2031
Antoine Paris 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. Antoine Paris has, at Hrvatski Dragovoljac, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets20 Jan 2031
Hrvatski Dragovoljac rebuffed over Mislav Pasalic
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Zagreb have kept their man, and Hrvatski Dragovoljac go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad20 Jan 2031
A row about effort at Hrvatski Dragovoljac
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets20 Jan 2031
Hrvatski Dragovoljac ask about Abdulhadi Matari
A loan enquiry to Lucko: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Market20 Jan 2031
Hrvatski Dragovoljac sign Antoine Paris, one for the future
Antoine Paris is 18, and Hrvatski Dragovoljac have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
In brief
- Squad No place for Håkon Dyvik in the new shape
- The dugout When it matters, Josip Krznarić plays
- The dugout Ivan Kapac knocks on the manager’s door