The Trnje Chronicle
Squad6 Sep 2027
68 days out for Maciej Wichtowski after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Trnje will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market6 Sep 2027
Luigi Mišević hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Trnje can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Window shuts: 17 in, 8 out at Trnje
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 17 arrived, 8 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Ivan Mihaljević 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 Trnje this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
Trnje rebuffed over Antonio Rajić
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Zagreb have kept their man, and Trnje go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Bojan Knežević 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A month that belonged to Duje Matić
The young player of the month award goes to a 20-year-old at Trnje who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Amara Camara
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
102% of the income goes out in wages at Trnje
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.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Trnje and Leon Bätge
- The dugout A promise honoured at Trnje
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Bojan Knežević's mistake