The Jadran Luka Ploce Gazette
Market11 Jun 2029
Ajid Muminović has said yes to Karlovac 1919
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Jadran Luka Ploce have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market11 Jun 2029
Filip Golem puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Jadran Luka Ploce, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market11 Jun 2029
Only the photograph left for Niko Škrlec
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Niko Škrlec will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Jadran Luka Ploce the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Words exchanged at Jadran Luka Ploce
Niko Rak 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.
Squad11 Jun 2029
A move Marley Roberts 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. Marley Roberts is living that version at Jadran Luka Ploce, and it tends to show in the first month.
The dugout11 Jun 2029
Dawid Pietruszka frozen out at Jadran Luka Ploce
This is not rotation. Dawid Pietruszka has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Jadran Luka Ploce is pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets11 Jun 2029
Jadran Luka Ploce rebuffed over Josip Jurčević
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. HNK Rijeka have kept their man, and Jadran Luka Ploce go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Filip Vajdovčić 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.
Transfer targets11 Jun 2029
Jadran Luka Ploce try to borrow Josip Brkić
Karlovac 1919 have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Karl Harry Leban is in the works
- The dugout Tyler Whyte gets it from the manager
- The dugout Carlo Mateković knocks on the manager’s door