Noa Karaselimović

Defensive Midfielder - HNK Rijeka
8 Feb 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Noa Karaselimović

128 Edition

The HNK Rijeka Chronicle

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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.

Market

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 terraces

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.

Match

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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

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The HNK Rijeka Chronicle

4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Jakub Janetzký keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” HNK Rijeka may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Vinko Rozić 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 HNK Rijeka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ante Majstorović signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ante Majstorović and HNK Rijeka agree another 2 years.

Squad

Ante Oreč 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.

Squad

Noa Karaselimović named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Noa Karaselimović is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Roko Cerić

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief