Nikola Maksimović 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Words at Kustosija training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomislav Krizmanić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Tomislav Krizmanić 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.
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Words at Kustosija training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikola Maksimović is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. HNK Rijeka have kept their man, and Kustosija go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Level with 85 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Kustosija had all but put away. Opatija will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Kustosija have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Nikola Maksimović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words at Kustosija training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomislav Krizmanić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikola Maksimović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
At 33, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Kustosija has been clear about where Matija Kolarić stands, which is more than many ever get.
“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 Kustosija know it.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kustosija this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Matej Grahovac is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kustosija this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
A season average of 7.22 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Kustosija know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tomislav Krizmanić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. HNK Vukovar 1991 have kept their man, and Kustosija go back to a list with one name crossed off it.