The Bjelovar Herald
Market10 Aug 2026
Bjelovar turn down Rudar Velenje for Fran Ćavar
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Robert Mišković gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Robert Mišković has just signed for Bjelovar, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Niko Beroš
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Bjelovar have done the hard part with Dinamo Zagreb, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Šime Gržan signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Šime Gržan commits to Bjelovar for another 2 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
As if he never left: Nikola Gatarić returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Nikola Gatarić is a Bjelovar player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market10 Aug 2026
Josip Čikvar is a Bjelovar player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Danijel Zagorac in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bjelovar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Bjelovar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Noel Bilić 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Robert Kovacevic joins the Bjelovar first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Robert Kovacevic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Transfer targets Bjelovar ask about Taj Rožič Šuligoj
- The dugout Josip Čikvar dropped after a run of poor form
- The dugout Antonio Corluka: “We have to be better”