Marko Peranović

Right Back - Dravinja
26 Aug 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Marko Peranović

155 Edition

The Dravinja Courier

16 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Domen Justinek frozen out at Dravinja

This is not rotation. Domen Justinek has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Dravinja is pretending otherwise.

Transfer targets

Dravinja rebuffed over Patrik Legen

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Koper have kept their man, and Dravinja go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

David Stanojević 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Dravinja

Tine Koron 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.

Transfer targets

Dravinja ask about Maxim Azarko

A loan enquiry to ND Gorica: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad

6 new faces, and Dravinja 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.

The dugout

Domen Justinek 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 Dravinja, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Still no ink between Dravinja and Marko Peranović

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dravinja, another week without a signature from Marko Peranović.

Market

David Stanojević runs his contract down

1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Dravinja money.

In brief

Back issues
153 Edition

The Dravinja Courier

2 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Dravinja sell their best player to NK Maribor

$330.0K is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

Boardroom

Dravinja put Domen Elsnik on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market

Domen Justinek asks to leave Dravinja

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom

The Dravinja board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Market

David Stanojević is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dravinja is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $330.0K sale of Samo Matjaž

He is going to NK Maribor, the club has $330.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Squad

Marko Peranović gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Marko Peranović has just signed for Dravinja, and for once the answer mattered.

The dugout

Rene Škerget frozen out at Dravinja

This is not rotation. Rene Škerget has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Dravinja is pretending otherwise.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Marwann Nzuzi rejects the move

Dravinja had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Bravo, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

In brief