The Dugo Selo Courier
Squad15 Nov 2027
Tempers go at Dugo Selo
Lovro Gubijan 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Šimun Grgić 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 dugout15 Nov 2027
Mateo Mendeš 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.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
A promise honoured for Bruno Međimorec
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Dugo Selo told Bruno Međimorec something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Krešimir Nazor knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Krešimir Nazor trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market15 Nov 2027
The Šimun Grgić talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dugo Selo know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Marko Kovacevic has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dugo Selo will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad15 Nov 2027
“I want to play”: Anton Berišić speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Squad15 Nov 2027
A season on the outside for Bas Brouwers
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Dugo Selo has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
In brief
- Market Dugo Selo put James Pradic up for sale
- Looking ahead Dugo Selo host Djakovo Croatia