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42 Edition

The Grobnican Post

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Market

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

Back issues
35 Edition

The Grobnican Post

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Squad

Words at Grobnican training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Vajdovčić 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.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 142% of the Grobnican income

Every club 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 it has been tried.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mario Nikolić

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

The dugout

The manager makes Antonio Perić a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Grobnican. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Market

Ivan Ikić linked with a move away

The name of Ivan Ikić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Grobnican say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

32 Edition

The Grobnican Post

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

21 days out for Edi Vinarš 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.

Squad

Tonći Mujan signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tonći Mujan and Grobnican agree another 3 years.

Squad

Filip Vajdovčić 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.

Squad

Words at Grobnican training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Jakšić 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

Ivan Kargotić 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Grobnican against Djakovo Croatia

0‑1 to Djakovo Croatia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Loan watch

Luka Žeželić has seen enough of Varteks

“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 Grobnican, and 9 appearances in 29 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout

Fran Vrsaljko faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Fran Vrsaljko after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Market

A long bet from Grobnican on Kossi Comlan

He is 20, and nobody at Grobnican signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief