The Dinamo Zagreb Gazette
Match8 May 2028
Nobody above Dinamo Zagreb
First, on 46 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Market8 May 2028
Paul Bismarck Tabinas is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Zagreb is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad8 May 2028
Real improvement from Ivan Paunović at Dinamo Zagreb
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ivan Paunović is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Loan watch8 May 2028
Mislav Ćutuk counts the days
“I watch every Dinamo Zagreb game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Cibalia runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Loan watch8 May 2028
Anton Matković keeps scoring at Hartberg
21 appearances away from home and 10 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
The dugout8 May 2028
Grischa Prömel has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dinamo Zagreb 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.
The dugout8 May 2028
Florian Kastenmeier 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 Florian Kastenmeier trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad8 May 2028
Grischa Prömel still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Dinamo Zagreb would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Market8 May 2028
The Mateo Lisica talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dinamo Zagreb know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Sven Šunta’s exile
- Loan watch 3 goals on loan for Fran Topić
- Market Dinamo Zagreb put Nikolas Šimić up for sale