Marked for Timi Brekalo
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match28 Nov 2026
16 matches without a win for NK Domzale
The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around NK Domzale are no longer polite ones.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Timi Brekalo: 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tivonge Rushesha and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Marked 8.11 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad30 Nov 2026
NK Domzale are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at NK Domzale pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Nemanja Gavrić dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Match12 Oct 2026
NK Domzale are in real trouble now
Position 10, 2 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 65 days on the sidelines for Žan Majer, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 17 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.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Everything rides on NK Krsko
Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. NK Domzale know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Anton Kravchenko and NK Domzale agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Market12 Oct 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
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.
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Crisis
Market24 Aug 2026
$930.0K — a new record at NK Domzale
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Match22 Aug 2026
0‑3 against Koper, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market24 Aug 2026
ND Gorica come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and NK Domzale did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
6 saves: Rok Verbic was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Timi Brekalo had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to NK Domzale's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at NK Domzale has to find a result from somewhere.
Match22 Aug 2026
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$14.0K on the table at NK Celje. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
No deal for Nejc Viher at that price
NK Domzale offered $48.0K; NK Maribor said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
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Crisis
Market17 Aug 2026
The unthinkable, invoiced: Oleg Shishkin sold
CSKA Moscow arrived with $14.3M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” NK Krsko had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Oleg Shishkin has gone, the accounts have $14.3M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: NK Celje keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Market17 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: ND Gorica have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jan Vipotnik. The answer from NK Domzale has not changed — yet.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Match15 Aug 2026
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Rudar Velenje, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“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.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
“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 NK Domzale, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market3 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and NK Domzale did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market3 Aug 2026
As if he never left: Žan Majer returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Žan Majer is a NK Domzale player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Vid Stojanovic 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sandi Lovric 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 targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Brentford have kept their man, and NK Domzale go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Žan Majer needs a bigger stage
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and NK Domzale know which stage they are at.