The Hrvatski Dragovoljac Courier
Squad7 Jun 2027
The knee: David Puclin out for 76 days
76 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hrvatski Dragovoljac lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Hrvatski Dragovoljac
Giovanni Jerolimov 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Hamzat Balogun gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Hamzat Balogun has just signed for Hrvatski Dragovoljac, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Sesvete tell Hrvatski Dragovoljac: Dragan Juranović 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Jens Jenniskens 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 dugout7 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Jordan Zirkzee
“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.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Hrvatski Dragovoljac ask about David Mejía
A loan enquiry to NK Osijek: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Market7 Jun 2027
Hrvatski Dragovoljac buy the years ahead of Robin Jouffroy
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market7 Jun 2027
Talks stall between Hrvatski Dragovoljac and Tom Hill
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
In brief
- The dugout Filip Šušković-Jakopac knocks on the manager's door
- Boardroom Open for business: Hrvatski Dragovoljac enter the window
- The dugout Tom Hill has been promised minutes