Jan Oblak

Central Defender - Yenisey 2
22 Dec 2030
Sunday
Process

Marked for Jan Oblak

220 Edition

The Yenisey 2 Courier

14 Oct 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Evgeny Gololobov

Successful dribbles: 53. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Yenisey 2

Position 13 and 9 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Jan Oblak asks to leave Yenisey 2

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The terraces

Yenisey 2 supporters have found a favourite in Oleg Chizhov

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Oleg Chizhov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

Dylan Suleiman 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 Yenisey 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Mamadou Diallo 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.

Squad

Dylan Suleiman 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.

Player ratings

Oleg Chizhov stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.37 on the card, and the Yenisey 2 support went home talking about one name.

Squad

5 new faces, and Yenisey 2 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.

In brief

Back issues
202 Edition

The Yenisey 2 Courier

10 Jun 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Martin Juranovic

28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Yenisey 2 lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Jan Oblak puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Yenisey 2, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words at Yenisey 2 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Olaf Pankiewicz 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.

In brief

157 Edition

The NK Domzale Courier

30 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Robert Vipotnik

Successful dribbles: 52. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Pavel Pelevin: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” NK Domzale have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Luka Zajc, 35, rolls back the years — 7.90

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.90 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Agustín Bono is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Nejc Balkovec 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 NK Domzale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Dinamo Minsk expected to open talks for Sandi Skubic

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. NK Domzale will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Squad

Robert Vipotnik 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.

Match

NK Domzale see off NK Maribor

Three points for NK Domzale, 1‑0 the final word against NK Maribor in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

Jan Oblak leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Jan Oblak leaves NK Domzale the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief