Marked for Maro Mrndže
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sibenik will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Sibenik may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Sebastian Jacob 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.
In brief
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Boardroom
Wages eat 102% of everything Sibenik earn
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Squad
Stipe Rupić in a row with a teammate
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad19 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sibenik will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.86 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match17 Oct 2026
Sibenik make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Sibenik have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Sebastian Jacob 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Mihael Rebernik’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sibenik.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 8.01 — 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Stipe Rupić 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 Sibenik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Maro Mrndže
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
Nowhere to hide for Sibenik
0‑4 against Cibalia, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match19 Sep 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Sibenik
8 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Toni Španja 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 Sibenik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Maro Mrndže for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Sibenik will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Josip Baturina, and the manager let it.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Nobody left the Sibenik dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match1 Aug 2026
0‑3 to Rudes, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
54 appearances across 8 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Sibenik know what they have.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Toni Španja commits to Sibenik for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Toni Španja 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 Sibenik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sebastian Jacob 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Antonio Imširović has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Sibenik.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Sibenik dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.