Henry Leal

Striker - Napredak
19 Sep 2032
Sunday
Process

Marked for Henry Leal

311 Edition

The Napredak Courier

12 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Uros Vlahovic damages knee ligaments — 33 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 33 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Luka Drobnjak: 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.” Napredak have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Napredak

Dejan Meleg 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.

In brief

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262 Edition

The Napredak Courier

4 Aug 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tomáš Vychodil damages knee ligaments — 46 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 46 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Lazar Balević keeps Napredak in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Tempers go at Napredak

Aleksandar Lutovac 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Henry Leal at Napredak

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Henry Leal is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match

A bad afternoon for Napredak against Spartak Subotica

0‑1 to Spartak Subotica, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Mateja Bubanj runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Ricardo Benítez told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ricardo Benítez has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Napredak.

Market

The Andrija Majdevac question follows Napredak around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Andrija Majdevac’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market

Sergej Grujic leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Sergej Grujic leaves Napredak the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief