The Rudar Velenje Courier
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Rudar Velenje
Tilen Rajter Krebs and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad12 Oct 2026
13 new faces, and Rudar Velenje are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
Josip Perković counts the days
“I watch every Rudar Velenje game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Opatija runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Marko Simić 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Rudar Velenje keep their word to Taj Rožič Šuligoj
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Market12 Oct 2026
Lukas Tomažič told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Lukas Tomažič has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Rudar Velenje.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Tomislav Knežević gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Tomislav Knežević is on it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A door opens for Ante Kozina
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Nemanja Studen has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Rudar Velenje will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
In brief
- Market Rudar Velenje put Denis Nikić up for sale
- The dugout Lukas Tomažič asks for a word with the manager
- Market The Marko Simić story refuses to die