Roko Markulin

Right Midfielder - Free Agent
17 Oct 2032
Sunday
Process

Marked for Roko Markulin

306 Edition

The Dinamo Zagreb Gazette

7 Jun 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Market

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.

Market

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.

Market

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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

Back issues
246 Edition

The Dinamo Zagreb Gazette

14 Apr 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Jona Benkotić has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Zagreb they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Matteo Pérez Vinlöf signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Matteo Pérez Vinlöf and Dinamo Zagreb agree another 5 years.

Market

Leandro Andrade wants more than Dinamo Zagreb are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Dion Beljo 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 Dinamo Zagreb this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

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.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Roko Markulin for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Dinamo Zagreb will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

The dugout

Leandro Andrade has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Dinamo Zagreb will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

Ante Matej Jurić told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ante Matej Jurić has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Dinamo Zagreb.

Market

The Moris Valinčić question follows Dinamo Zagreb around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Moris Valinčić’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief