The Orijent 1919 Sentinel
Market7 Jun 2027
Domagoj Prpić agrees terms with Lokomotiva Zagreb
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Orijent 1919 people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Match7 Jun 2027
Orijent 1919 refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 34 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market7 Jun 2027
Dino Curać 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 Orijent 1919 can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Gabi Caschili signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gabi Caschili and Orijent 1919 agree another 4 years.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Agustín Sandoval gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Agustín Sandoval has just signed for Orijent 1919, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Gabi Caschili 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.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Orijent 1919 rebuffed over Vlatko Martinović
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Segesta have kept their man, and Orijent 1919 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Orijent 1919
Domagoj Prpić 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.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
No hiding place for Leon Zeqiraj
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leon Zeqiraj, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market Orijent 1919 buy the years ahead of Adil Khalifa
- The dugout Noa Aron Stašić has become a man the manager trusts
- Market Miroslav Iličić linked with a move away