The Grobnican Post
Squad1 May 2028
Tempers go at Grobnican
Jurica Jurčec 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.
Squad1 May 2028
A row about effort at Grobnican
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dario Čanađija was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 May 2028
Dorian Anušić faces a manager he fell out with
They have worked together before and it did not end well. Nobody at Grobnican expects the new manager to have forgotten, least of all Dorian Anušić.
The dugout1 May 2028
No hiding place for Albert Masson
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Albert Masson, and the manager let it.
The dugout1 May 2028
Luka Orlović knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Luka Orlović trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad1 May 2028
Gonçalo Sousa still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Grobnican would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
In brief
- Squad Ravn Loe: “I am not a substitute”
- Market The Roko Krapec question follows Grobnican around
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Josip Vučković
- Boardroom Grobnican keep producing them