Marked for Julian Bytyci
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Julian Bytyci damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Sesvete
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match5 Oct 2026
Sesvete are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 14 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match3 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Sesvete
7 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Sesvete can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Greg Houla 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
161% of the income goes out in wages at Sesvete
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.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ivan Radošević 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 Oct 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Sesvete will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Julian Bytyci damages knee ligaments — 26 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 26 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Sesvete
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match26 Sep 2026
The goals have deserted Sesvete
6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Sesvete can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Greg Houla in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sesvete this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tin Kulenović 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.
In brief
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Squad
7 new faces, and Sesvete are still learning each other
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Match
Sesvete and Cibalia cancel each other out
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
Julian Bytyci 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Sesvete
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Sesvete are no longer polite ones.
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a goal for Sesvete
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Moses Zambrang Barnabas 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Zadar left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Sesvete training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tin Kulenović is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Julian Bytyci damages knee ligaments — 40 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 40 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Sesvete
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Sesvete are no longer polite ones.
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a goal for Sesvete
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad14 Sep 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 Sesvete this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sebastián Alzate, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Sesvete training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Radošević is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.