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Steady
Market31 May 2027
Júnior Fariña 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 Imotski can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 May 2027
The medical room confirms 76 days on the sidelines for Ante Vuković, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad31 May 2027
108 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad31 May 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad31 May 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Denilson Cortéz and Imotski agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market31 May 2027
Still no signature from Josip Kilić
1 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Imotski could get for him.
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Squad24 May 2027
Diego Andrada: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Imotski have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad24 May 2027
Tiaguinho gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad24 May 2027
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Dragan Lovrić has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Boardroom30 Nov 2026
270% of the income goes out in wages at Imotski
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Ivan Todorić gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Ante Vuković knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Imotski, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Market23 Nov 2026
Júnior Fariña 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 Imotski can pretend not to have heard.
Match21 Nov 2026
Three points for Imotski, 1-0 the final word against Dugopolje in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Imotski have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tiaguinho knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Imotski, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Josip Kilić unhappy with how he is being used
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Josip Kilić has let it be known that he does not like the way Imotski are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
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Uneasy
Match14 Nov 2026
Three points for Imotski, 2-0 the final word against Sesvete in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Steady
Match19 Sep 2026
A 1-0 win over Dugopolje, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market21 Sep 2026
Martín Espinoza Pino is 20, and Imotski have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Šime Žužul commits to Imotski for another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market10 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market10 Aug 2026
He is 20, and nobody at Imotski signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Max Grbavac told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Max Grbavac has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Imotski.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Šime Žužul 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.