The NK Osijek Courier
Market30 Jul 2029
Elias Mansor has said yes to Grobnican
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. NK Osijek have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market30 Jul 2029
Marko Pajač 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 NK Osijek can pretend not to have heard.
Market30 Jul 2029
Rudes come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and NK Osijek did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets30 Jul 2029
Too dear: NK Osijek walk away from Karlo Antunović
$120.0K was the most the club would pay and Karlovac 1919 were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market30 Jul 2029
Vito Čaić attracts admirers
The name of Vito Čaić has come up in conversations NK Osijek were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Words at NK Osijek training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anton Matković 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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Tempers go at NK Osijek
Domagoj Bukvić 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.
Player ratings30 Jul 2029
Domagoj Bukvić was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets30 Jul 2029
HNK Rijeka tell NK Osijek: Niko Gajzler is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Roko Jurišić
- Match NK Osijek come up short against Slaven Belupo
- Squad NK Osijek count the cost of losing Jakov Tikvić