David Brnada

Central Midfielder - Metalist
27 Feb 2030
Wednesday
Process

Marked for David Brnada

186 Edition

The Metalist Herald

18 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Metalist finish in position 14

21 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

The dugout

Dmytro Pozhar: 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.” Metalist have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Roman Andrieiev asks to leave Metalist

“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.

Transfer targets

Shakhtar tell Metalist: Nicolás Arévalo 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.

Market

Prykarpattia come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Metalist did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

David Brnada has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Metalist they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match

The wait goes on for Metalist

4 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.

Boardroom

David Brnada signs for Kryvbas while still at Metalist

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. David Brnada has agreed terms with Kryvbas for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Tempers go at Metalist

Maksym Zaderaka 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

Back issues
98 Edition

The Hajduk Split Post

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Alexandr Selikhov out for 83 days

83 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hajduk Split lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Duje Matić agrees terms with Imotski

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Hajduk Split people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Boardroom

Hajduk Split to lose David Brnada for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. David Brnada has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Leandro Andrade 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 Hajduk Split this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Saba watching Dennis Hadžikadunić

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Hajduk Split have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

A row about effort at Hajduk Split

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fran Karačić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Fran Karačić

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fran Karačić, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Leandro Andrade gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Leandro Andrade is on it.

Market

Marko Livaja linked with a move away

The name of Marko Livaja keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Hajduk Split say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief