The Dinamo Zagreb Gazette
Squad7 Jun 2032
94 days out for Ciprian Nita after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Dinamo Zagreb will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match7 Jun 2032
Dinamo Zagreb refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 39 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market7 Jun 2032
Dinamo Zagreb say no — this time
The offer from Red Bull Salzburg for Martin Baturina was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market7 Jun 2032
Terms done: Goran Pjaca is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and MSK Zilina waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Dinamo Zagreb is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market7 Jun 2032
Roko Markulin says no to Imotski
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Roko Markulin had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market7 Jun 2032
Niko Željković asks to leave Dinamo Zagreb
“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.
Squad7 Jun 2032
Scott McKenna signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Scott McKenna commits to Dinamo Zagreb for another 2 years.
Squad7 Jun 2032
Words exchanged at Dinamo Zagreb
Dion Beljo 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.
Squad7 Jun 2032
A row about effort at Dinamo Zagreb
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Martin Baturina was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- The dugout Matteo Pérez Vinlöf has become a man the manager trusts
- Boardroom Dinamo Zagreb can sign again
- The dugout Andrija Janjić knocks on the manager's door