Daniel Gruber

Defensive Midfielder - Uskok
3 Aug 2027
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48 Edition

The Uskok Herald

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom28 Jun 2027

Pressure builds in the Uskok boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market28 Jun 2027

Vanja Vukmanović asks to leave Uskok

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

The paperwork begins on Dušan Vuković

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Uskok have done the hard part with Lokomotiva Zagreb, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad28 Jun 2027

A falling-out at Uskok

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

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

Door shut on Darryl Ombang

Uskok asked and Hajduk Split said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Fabijan Petričević 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 dugout28 Jun 2027

The manager makes an example of Denis Strize

“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.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Daniel Gruber wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Uskok know it.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

A loan move for Ivan Cvijanović is in the works

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

In brief

Back issues
40 Edition

The Uskok Herald

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom3 May 2027

Uskok spell it out for Duje Rebic

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Duje Rebic has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom3 May 2027

The scrutiny sharpens at Uskok

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Uskok is running low.

Market3 May 2027

Adiche Sabwele asks to leave Uskok

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad3 May 2027

A row about effort at Uskok

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

Squad3 May 2027

A falling-out at Uskok

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

The dugout3 May 2027

The manager makes an example of Šimun Šabijan

“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.

Squad3 May 2027

Daniel Gruber wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Uskok know it.

Squad3 May 2027

Šimun Šabijan wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Uskok will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

The dugout3 May 2027

The manager's exit leaves Branko Vrgoč exposed

Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Branko Vrgoč is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.

In brief

32 Edition

The Uskok Herald

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market8 Mar 2027

Adiche Sabwele asks to leave Uskok

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match6 Mar 2027

The wait goes on for Uskok

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.

Match6 Mar 2027

Nobody wins at Uskok

12 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Match6 Mar 2027

The goals have deserted Uskok

5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Uskok can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Branko Vrgoč signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Branko Vrgoč commits to Uskok for another 2 years.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Words exchanged at Uskok

Fabijan Petričević 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.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Francisco Pinho 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. Francisco Pinho has, at Uskok, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Words at Uskok training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Baltazar Bogolin 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.

The dugout8 Mar 2027

No hiding place for Vanja Vukmanović

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

In brief