Ivan Pocrnjić

Goalkeeper - Hajduk Split
6 Jul 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Ivan Pocrnjić

49 Edition

The Hajduk Split Post

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

42 days out for Ivan Pocrnjić after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Hajduk Split will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Terms done: Josip Perajica is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Mladost Zdralovi waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Hajduk Split is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Dario Melnjak 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 The request is on a desk at Hajduk Split, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Raul Kumar due for a Hajduk Split medical

Everything agreed with Istra 1961, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

NK Osijek tell Hajduk Split: Emin Hasić 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.

Market

Slaven Belupo come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Hajduk Split did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Alberto Del Moral signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alberto Del Moral commits to Hajduk Split for another 4 years.

Squad

Marko Livaja 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 Hajduk Split this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Sean Klaiber wants to go home

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

In brief

Back issues
42 Edition

The Uskok Herald

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Andro Marušić 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

Patrik Šantalab 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.

Boardroom

109% of the income goes out in wages at Uskok

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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Uskok Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The small margins put Uskok out

Out, 1‑1 to Trnje, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad

Ivan Pocrnjić decides it from twelve yards

1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Karlo Antunović

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Antonio Repić rejects the move

Uskok had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Dugopolje, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Match

No end in sight to Uskok's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Uskok has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A falling-out at Uskok

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

Transfer targets

HNK Rijeka tell Uskok: Lukas Đikić 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Uskok

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Antonio Radonić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Andro Marušić

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

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The Uskok Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

A debut Raymond Anthony will not forget — 7.29

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.29 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Transfer targets

HNK Rijeka tell Uskok: Branko Pavić 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Luka Jurak

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Uskok get the job done against Grobnican

A 1‑0 win over Grobnican, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Words exchanged at Uskok

Peter Nnaemeka Ugwuodo 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 Uskok

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Roko Gabrić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Uskok try to borrow Nikša Čulina

Segesta have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Messias is in the works

Uskok have made the call to Kustosija. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad

Karlo Rudić stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Karlo Rudić and Uskok agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief