The Grobnican Post
Squad17 May 2027
132 days out for Ivan Ikić after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Grobnican will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match17 May 2027
The view from the top for Grobnican
52 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Squad17 May 2027
Tonći Mujan 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 Grobnican this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 May 2027
Filip Vajdovčić 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.
The dugout17 May 2027
Filip Dropulić 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 Grobnican, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market17 May 2027
The Ivan Kargotić talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Grobnican know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Alberto Bačić
- Squad Eduardo has settled at Grobnican