Liam Strnad

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Marked for Liam Strnad

28 Edition

The Slovan Ljubljana Chronicle

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad8 Feb 2027

28 days out for Liam Strnad after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Slovan Ljubljana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market8 Feb 2027

Terms done: Som Kumar is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Jadran Luka Ploce waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Slovan Ljubljana is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Player ratings8 Feb 2027

Anel Puškar was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 29. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Nik Belovič is the real thing at 18

A season average of 7.10 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Slovan Ljubljana know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Words exchanged at Slovan Ljubljana

Stefan Melentijević 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.

Squad8 Feb 2027

A row about effort at Slovan Ljubljana

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

The dugout8 Feb 2027

Alan Kaučič 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.

Match6 Feb 2027

Slovan Ljubljana come up short against Bilje

Bilje left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout8 Feb 2027

No place for Bo Geens on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Slovan Ljubljana pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

In brief

Back issues
27 Edition

The Slovan Ljubljana Chronicle

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match30 Jan 2027

Albin Ahmetaj leads the rout of Bistrica

5‑1, and Albin Ahmetaj took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Slovan Ljubljana tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad1 Feb 2027

A fracture rules Liam Strnad out for 35 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Slovan Ljubljana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Albin Ahmetaj takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Player ratings1 Feb 2027

Nik Belovič, 18, steals the show — 8.86

Marked 8.86 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Boardroom1 Feb 2027

Slovan Ljubljana close the window on a squad of their own making

3 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Market1 Feb 2027

Slovan Ljubljana say no — this time

The offer from Lucko for Som Kumar was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Nik Belovič 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 Slovan Ljubljana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match30 Jan 2027

Albin Ahmetaj among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Albin Ahmetaj on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Slovan Ljubljana and Bistrica.

Player ratings1 Feb 2027

A masterclass from Albin Ahmetaj

Marked 9.59 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

20 Edition

The Slovan Ljubljana Chronicle

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

No sign of nerves from Nik Belovič at 18 — 8.52

The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Nik Belovič did not need any: 8.52, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad14 Dec 2026

At 18, Nik Belovič is already the best thing here

An average of 7.03 in a first team he is several years too young for. Slovan Ljubljana have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

Liam Strnad: 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.” Slovan Ljubljana have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Words exchanged at Slovan Ljubljana

Stefan Melentijević 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.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Words at Slovan Ljubljana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albin Ahmetaj 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.

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

Ninety minutes of Albin Ahmetaj at his very best

Marked 8.29. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Slovan Ljubljana.

Match12 Dec 2026

Slovan Ljubljana and ND Gorica take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Domen Handanovic chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

Maj Rorič 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 Slovan Ljubljana, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief