Stipe Benko

Defensive Midfielder - Auckland City
27 Sep 2028
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Marked for Stipe Benko

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The Auckland City Post

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad4 Sep 2028

Zhou Tong damages knee ligaments — 46 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 46 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad4 Sep 2028

A move Stipe Benko would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Stipe Benko is living that version at Auckland City, and it tends to show in the first month.

Boardroom4 Sep 2028

Auckland City beat the market to Dane Sutton from Canterbury United

Canterbury United will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Dane Sutton has pre-agreed a move to Auckland City, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Words at Auckland City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Yoo 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.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Nikko Boxall 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.

Market4 Sep 2028

Auckland City sign Stipe Benko, one for the future

Stipe Benko is 18, and Auckland City have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

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The Zadar Gazette

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad17 Jan 2028

Ante Kovac damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Luka Popović: 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.” Zadar have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market17 Jan 2028

Zadar say no — this time

The offer from Dugopolje for Mateo Livaja was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Tempers go at Zadar

Kristijan Bilic 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.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Ante Kavelj 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.

Market17 Jan 2028

Josip Krznarić is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Zadar has been clear about where Josip Krznarić stands, which is more than many ever get.

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