Marked for Kevin Oblak
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad10 May 2027
55 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. NK Domzale lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad10 May 2027
Brown Irabor 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.
The dugout10 May 2027
Zech Medley 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.
Squad10 May 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kevin Oblak commits to NK Domzale for another 4 years.
Loan watch10 May 2027
“I watch every NK Domzale game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Rudar Velenje runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jan Vipotnik 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.
The dugout10 May 2027
Alexandru Musi asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market10 May 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at NK Domzale, another week without a signature from Jack Armer.
Market10 May 2027
The Zan Kampl talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. NK Domzale know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Match4 Jan 2027
Every point is an argument now for NK Domzale
Position 10 and 3 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.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” NK Domzale may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Vid Stojanovic 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The name of Timi Brekalo has come up in conversations NK Domzale were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jan Vipotnik 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan move for Lanej Bakšič is in the works
NK Domzale have made the call to NK Maribor. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Rudar Velenje have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
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Uneasy
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” NK Domzale may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
NK Zavrc next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at NK Domzale would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Kevin Oblak 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 Kevin Oblak trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Zan Kampl talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. NK Domzale know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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Crisis
Match25 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for NK Domzale
11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market26 Oct 2026
“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.
Match25 Oct 2026
5 matches without a goal for NK Domzale
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match25 Oct 2026
ND Gorica left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nemanja Gavrić, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jan Vipotnik 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad26 Oct 2026
At 22 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching. Places at NK Domzale are won quietly and lost loudly, and this one was won.
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Crisis
Match17 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for NK Domzale
10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a goal for NK Domzale
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match17 Oct 2026
NK Krsko left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Everybody at NK Domzale saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 35 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Nobody left the NK Domzale dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Jan Vipotnik and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Miha Kurtovic left the room before anybody could ask which.