Juhayna

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Zemun
17 Mar 2033
Thursday
Process

Marked for Juhayna

324 Edition

The Zemun Sentinel

11 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Joris Kin hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Zemun can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Nenad Perović 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Vojin Marinković

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vojin Marinković, and the manager let it.

Squad

Paulo Júnior wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Zemun can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Boardroom

105% of the income goes out in wages at Zemun

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Eldin Lolić has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Zemun will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Market

Zemun and Uroš Vukićević are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

No place for Juhayna in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Zemun are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout

Lucas Borg gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Lucas Borg is on it.

In brief

Back issues
259 Edition

The FC Bihor Oradea Chronicle

14 Jul 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at FC Bihor Oradea

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at FC Bihor Oradea is running low.

Market

Juhayna 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 FC Bihor Oradea, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Svetoslav Todorov has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

Words exchanged at FC Bihor Oradea

Jan Lacko 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

Words at FC Bihor Oradea training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gideon Goodlad 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Darius Ghindovean

FC Bihor Oradea asked and CFR Cluj said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom

The borrowing at FC Bihor Oradea reaches $28.5M

Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $28.5M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.

Boardroom

98% of the income goes out in wages at FC Bihor Oradea

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at FC Bihor Oradea

8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

252 Edition

The FC Bihor Oradea Chronicle

26 May 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The season ends: position 10 for FC Bihor Oradea

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 64 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Market

Aaro Salonen 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 FC Bihor Oradea, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Diego Burlacu frozen out at FC Bihor Oradea

This is not rotation. Diego Burlacu has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at FC Bihor Oradea is pretending otherwise.

Match

The run is over for FC Bihor Oradea

9 matches without defeat, and then Politehnica Iași. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

Squad

A falling-out at FC Bihor Oradea

Szymon Bębenek and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Gideon Goodlad 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.

Match

FC Bihor Oradea come up short against Politehnica Iași

Politehnica Iași left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Gideon Goodlad gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Stanley Ogbonna wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and FC Bihor Oradea know it.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Market No place for Juhayna in the plan
  • The dugout No place in the plan for Thomas Vannoye