Matej Tomić

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Radnik Krizevci
14 Aug 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Matej Tomić

157 Edition

The Radnik Krizevci Chronicle

30 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Ben Thys 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 The request is on a desk at Radnik Krizevci, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Matej Tomić: 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.” Radnik Krizevci have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

A hand in 2 of them from Kain Adom — 7.95

Marked 7.95. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.

Squad

A falling-out at Radnik Krizevci

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

Squad

Words at Radnik Krizevci training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mihael Mladen 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 Marko Dabro

Radnik Krizevci asked and Lokomotiva Zagreb said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Emanuel Mađarić the difference as Radnik Krizevci beat Jadran Luka Ploce

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Emanuel Mađarić. 2‑1 against Jadran Luka Ploce, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Filip Vajdovčić was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

No hiding place for Matko Zirdum

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

In brief

Back issues
152 Edition

The Radnik Krizevci Chronicle

25 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Borna Bilobrk 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 Radnik Krizevci, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Noah Nemorin

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Noah Nemorin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Radnik Krizevci the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Filip Vajdovčić 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 Radnik Krizevci this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Radnik Krizevci training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mihael Mladen 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

FAC Wien tell Radnik Krizevci: Zidane Taylan is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Transfer targets

Radnik Krizevci ask about Gabriel Debeljuh

A loan enquiry to Universitatea Cluj: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market

The Emanuel Mađarić story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Emanuel Mađarić signs something — a contract at Radnik Krizevci or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market

Radnik Krizevci and Cristobal Moreno 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

“I want to play”: Matej Tomić speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

In brief

151 Edition

The Radnik Krizevci Chronicle

18 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Only the photograph left for Fran Petković

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Fran Petković will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Radnik Krizevci the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Transfer targets

Zidane Taylan due for a Radnik Krizevci medical

Everything agreed with FAC Wien, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

A falling-out at Radnik Krizevci

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

Squad

Words at Radnik Krizevci training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mihael Mladen 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

Lokomotiv Moscow tell Radnik Krizevci: Artem Maximenko is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

Ben Thys is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Squad

No place for Ivan Borna Jelić Balta in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Radnik Krizevci 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

The manager makes an example of Matej Tomić

“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.

Market

Experience through the door at Radnik Krizevci

Ivan Borna Jelić Balta arrives at 36 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

In brief