The HNK Rijeka Chronicle
Match3 Jan 2029
HNK Rijeka out of the cup
Istra 1961 ended it 1‑4. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Market8 Jan 2029
HNK Rijeka say no — this time
The offer from Hajduk Split for Vinko Rozić 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.
The terraces8 Jan 2029
A cup hiding at Istra 1961 leaves HNK Rijeka explaining themselves
1-4, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Match3 Jan 2029
The wait goes on for HNK Rijeka
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
The dugout8 Jan 2029
Noa Karaselimović: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” HNK Rijeka have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Amer Gojak makes the wrong kind of headline
Dealt with internally, which is the phrase a club uses when it would rather nobody asked twice. He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Tempers go at HNK Rijeka
Vinko Rozić was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Marko Pajač stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marko Pajač and HNK Rijeka agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Words at HNK Rijeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ante Oreč 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.
In brief
- Transfer targets HNK Rijeka rebuffed over Toby Steward
- Market Eyes on Branko Pavić again
- Boardroom Nobody left the HNK Rijeka dressing room in a hurry