Amara Camara

Defensive Midfielder - Trnje
28 Sep 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Amara Camara

58 Edition

The Trnje Chronicle

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Boardroom

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Boardroom

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

Back issues
45 Edition

The Trnje Chronicle

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Leon Bätge

33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Trnje lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom

Trnje put Daniel Benko on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market

Duje Matić 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.

Boardroom

Crisis meeting at Trnje

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Luka Hodak rejects the move

Trnje had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Hajduk Split, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

The step up is real for Amara Camara

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Tempers go at Trnje

Ivan Mihaljević 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.

Squad

Words at Trnje training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Talha Tabaković 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Marko Zubaj

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

In brief