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Crisis
Squad25 Oct 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 12 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match23 Oct 2027
10 matches without a win for HNK Gorica
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around HNK Gorica are no longer polite ones.
Match23 Oct 2027
Beaten 1-4 by Hajduk Split , and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Match22 Oct 2027
0-3 to TSG Hoffenheim , 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.
The terraces25 Oct 2027
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 28 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad25 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Bruno Bogojević
“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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Jurica Pršir left out for the big oneA player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Jurica Pršir will call it something else in private.
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Loan watch25 Oct 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at HNK Gorica , and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad27 Sep 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match25 Sep 2027
4 matches without a win for HNK Gorica
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around HNK Gorica are no longer polite ones.
Match25 Sep 2027
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Davor Matijaš Davor Matijaš says HNK Gorica went back on their word
Squad27 Sep 2027
24 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fran Rivić commits to HNK Gorica for another 3 years.
Squad27 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Edson Júnior
“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.
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Upbeat
Squad23 Aug 2027
The medical room confirms 133 days on the sidelines for Ante Erceg , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match21 Aug 2027
Beaten 1-3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad23 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Lucas Beltrán
“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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market23 Aug 2027
NK Osijek are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. HNK Gorica will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market23 Aug 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Lucas Beltrán may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Upbeat
Match14 Aug 2027
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now HNK Gorica have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Medin Gashi and HNK Gorica agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match14 Aug 2027
A 2-1 win over HNK Rijeka , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market16 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. HNK Gorica have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad16 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Edson Júnior
“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.
Market16 Aug 2027
Iker Pozo linked with a move awayThe name of Iker Pozo keeps appearing in other people's back pages. HNK Gorica say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad2 Aug 2027
The match ball belongs to Medin Gashi , whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Jakov Miholić : 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.” HNK Gorica have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad2 Aug 2027
84 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match31 Jul 2027
Rudes made HNK Gorica work for it, but the scoreboard read 3-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad2 Aug 2027
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. HNK Gorica have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Market2 Aug 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. HNK Gorica will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Uneasy
Match19 Jul 2027
HNK Gorica are in real trouble nowPosition 8, 19 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market19 Jul 2027
NK Varazdin pay $280.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad19 Jul 2027
The medical room confirms 17 days on the sidelines for Gustavo Wood , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market19 Jul 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. HNK Gorica have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad19 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Elvir Duraković
“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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Stefan Perić asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Squad3 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Ante Erceg
“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.
Squad3 May 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jakov Miholić commits to HNK Gorica for another 4 years.
Market3 May 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. HNK Gorica know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Ante Erceg The manager makes an example of Ante Erceg
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Crisis
Match28 Oct 2026
The cup run ends for HNK Gorica
1-2 against Cibalia , and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market2 Nov 2026
Rodrigo Pepe 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 HNK Gorica can pretend not to have heard.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 36 days on the sidelines for Gastón Tedesco , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match31 Oct 2026
0-2 to Istra 1961 , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 140% of everything HNK Gorica earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“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.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
65 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match3 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation HNK Gorica did not have in the autumn.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 220% of everything HNK Gorica earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ante Erceg 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
48 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Iker Pozo named player of the monthThe award goes to Iker Pozo , and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
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Uneasy
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 2-2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Iker Pozo finally opens his accountHe wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. HNK Gorica have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“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.
Iker Pozo Iker Pozo finally opens his account
Squad14 Sep 2026
Every debut is a small story about the future: Jakov Miholić , 17 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Rodrigo Pepe asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market14 Sep 2026
Ante Kavelj linked with a move awayThe name of Ante Kavelj keeps appearing in other people's back pages. HNK Gorica say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
Market
The window shut and Darijan Žarkov is still in the building
The terraces
The press cannot get enough of Iker Pozo