The Kustosija Courier
Squad5 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Kustosija
Nikola Maksimović 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
Karlo Kovačić returns a better player
29 games and 8 goals away from here, and a man the manager did not have last summer. The loan did what loans are supposed to do and almost never do.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
HNK Rijeka tell Kustosija: Matej Momčilovski 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Kustosija
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matija Kolarić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Too much change too quickly at Kustosija
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
A loan move for Matej Vinković is in the works
Kustosija 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
A long bet from Kustosija on Theo Di Carlo
He is 19, and nobody at Kustosija signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market5 Jul 2027
Kustosija sign Rostyslav-Nazar Diak, one for the future
Rostyslav-Nazar Diak is 20, and Kustosija 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
Kustosija sign Filip Marek, one for the future
Filip Marek is 19, and Kustosija 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.
In brief
- Boardroom Intake day at the Kustosija academy
- The dugout A promise honoured for Dražen Dubačkić
- The dugout Dražen Dubačkić is still paying for one afternoon at Kustosija