Marked for Din Čatak
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market12 Apr 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Dugo Selo
Ivan Mihaljević and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Dugo Selo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bruno Međimorec was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mateo Mendeš, and the manager let it.
Boardroom12 Apr 2027
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dugo Selo, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market12 Apr 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Loren Maružin’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Din Čatak wants out of the dugout
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Dugo Selo will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
Market12 Apr 2027
Dugo Selo have let the market know Ignacije Darojković can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Andrej Kasalo has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Dugo Selo can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market5 Apr 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Luka Romac 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 35 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Dugo Selo is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Tin Šarkanj 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Dugo Selo are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Market5 Apr 2027
“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.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Dejan Glavica loses the manager who believed in him
A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Dejan Glavica's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Dugo Selo
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Husein Sumbuljević is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dugo Selo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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 dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Husein Sumbuljević, and the manager let it.
Match17 Oct 2026
A point taken on 86 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Dugo Selo
Something was said to Husein Sumbuljević and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Tin Šarkanj dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Segesta leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dugo Selo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Bruno Međimorec 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.
Market12 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Miles Perkovich and Dugo Selo agree another 3 years.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Dorian Jakupak 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 Dugo Selo, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad12 Oct 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Dugo Selo are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Dugo Selo told Mateo Smodlaka something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.