Marked for Nik Belovič
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Primorje
Žan Bešir 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Three points for Primorje, 1‑0 the final word against NK Maribor in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad23 Nov 2026
58 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
The afternoon belonged to Žan Bešir
A mark of 7.67, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
No place for Omar Kočar on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Primorje pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Matic Kampl kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Jon Ficko
“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.
Looking ahead23 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Mura in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Gašper Černe asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Back issues
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Crisis
Market17 Aug 2026
Trakai come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and NK Maribor did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Hilal Soudani yet — 7.97
At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.97 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Mura wanted more than $1.6M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $4.8M — a club that wants Nemanja Motika enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. NK Domzale have kept their man, and NK Maribor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$83.0K on the table at Mura. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Market17 Aug 2026
Nik Belovič has left for Primorje in a $38.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
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Crisis
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Fee done, terms next for Bine Anželj
Primorje and Radomlje have settled on $60.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Omar Kočar arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Omar Kočar has, at Primorje, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Market17 Aug 2026
Primorje say no — this time
The offer from NK Krka for Jakob Raspet 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $41.4K — a club that wants Nik Belovič enough to be asked twice.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
$660.0K for Luka Kolar, and Primorje supporters approve
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Luka Kolar from NK Celje for $660.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Match15 Aug 2026
1‑3 to Aluminij, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Piast have kept their man, and Primorje go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Haris Dedić 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 Primorje this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with NK Celje, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $750.9K — a club that wants Luka Kolar enough to be asked twice.
Market10 Aug 2026
As if he never left: Gašper Petek returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Gašper Petek is a Primorje player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Primorje
Gašper Petek 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$38.0K on the table at NK Maribor. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Match8 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Primorje against Bravo
1‑2 to Bravo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sandi Kampl is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tomas Stojanovic has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Timi Sesko has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.