Mario Albu

Central Midfielder - Free Agent
20 Jan 2030
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Marked for Mario Albu

153 Edition

The Dugopolje Post

2 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market2 Jul 2029

Mario Albu asks to leave Dugopolje

“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.

Market2 Jul 2029

Gabriel Pehar is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dugopolje is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Transfer targets2 Jul 2029

Noa Skoko turns down Dugopolje

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Hajduk Split keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad2 Jul 2029

Tomislav Adolf Tomić stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Tomislav Adolf Tomić and Dugopolje agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad2 Jul 2029

Dario Melnjak 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 targets2 Jul 2029

Door shut on Jan Hlapčić

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

Squad2 Jul 2029

A falling-out at Dugopolje

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

Transfer targets2 Jul 2029

A loan move for Mate Antunović is in the works

Dugopolje 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.

Transfer targets2 Jul 2029

Dugopolje ask about David Kalem

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

In brief

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151 Edition

The Dugopolje Post

18 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market18 Jun 2029

Gabriel Pehar agrees terms with Segesta

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Dugopolje people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad18 Jun 2029

Dugopolje lose Bruno Zdunić

27 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Boardroom18 Jun 2029

The numbers do not look good at Dugopolje

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Transfer targets18 Jun 2029

Dugopolje rebuffed over Luka Posinković

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. NK Varazdin have kept their man, and Dugopolje go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout18 Jun 2029

The manager makes an example of Gabriel Pehar

“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.

The dugout18 Jun 2029

Mateo Barać 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.

Market18 Jun 2029

Tomislav Adolf Tomić linked with a move away

The name of Tomislav Adolf Tomić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Dugopolje say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout18 Jun 2029

When it matters, Ollie Gofford plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market18 Jun 2029

Still no ink between Dugopolje and Yanis Paquillé

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dugopolje, another week without a signature from Yanis Paquillé.

In brief

149 Edition

The Dugopolje Post

4 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market4 Jun 2029

Hossein Karimi asks to leave Dugopolje

“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 targets4 Jun 2029

The paperwork begins on Mathieu Acapandié

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

Squad4 Jun 2029

Words at Dugopolje training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Siebe Wylin 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.

Squad4 Jun 2029

A falling-out at Dugopolje

Saïdi M'Rabet and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets4 Jun 2029

A loan move for Matej Grahovac is in the works

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

The dugout4 Jun 2029

When it matters, Tomislav Adolf Tomić plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad4 Jun 2029

A step back for Duje Biuk at Dugopolje

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Squad4 Jun 2029

The formation has left Mario Albu behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Dugopolje will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Market4 Jun 2029

Duje Biuk is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Dugopolje has been clear about where Duje Biuk stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief