Darijo Modric

Central Midfielder - Lokomotiv Moscow
19 Jan 2036
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Marked for Darijo Modric

493 Edition

The Lokomotiv Moscow Sentinel

7 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market7 Jan 2036

Aaron Herrera asks to leave Lokomotiv Moscow

“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.

Match5 Jan 2036

The run at home goes on for Lokomotiv Moscow

15 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad7 Jan 2036

13 seasons of Sergey Pinyaev

413 appearances across 13 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Lokomotiv Moscow know what they have.

Boardroom7 Jan 2036

The scrutiny sharpens at Lokomotiv Moscow

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Lokomotiv Moscow is running low.

Player ratings7 Jan 2036

Age has not caught Darijo Modric yet — 8.09

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.09 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad7 Jan 2036

Fasson is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Lokomotiv Moscow will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Market7 Jan 2036

Only the photograph left for Conor Haughey

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Conor Haughey will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lokomotiv Moscow the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom7 Jan 2036

Conor Haughey has agreed to leave Lokomotiv Moscow for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad7 Jan 2036

Tempers go at Lokomotiv Moscow

Alerrandro 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.

In brief

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The Lokomotiv Moscow Sentinel

10 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad10 Sep 2035

Miroslav Korolev breaks a bone — 62 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 62 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match8 Sep 2035

Darijo Modric wins it after the whistle should have gone

91 minutes played. Darijo Modric found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Rotor went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Market10 Sep 2035

Brodi Hughes hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lokomotiv Moscow can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings10 Sep 2035

Darijo Modric, 33, rolls back the years — 8.06

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.06 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market10 Sep 2035

The CSKA Moscow deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Vladimir Ignatenko reports back to Lokomotiv Moscow with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Match8 Sep 2035

Lokomotiv Moscow cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad10 Sep 2035

Tempers go at Lokomotiv Moscow

Alerrandro 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.

Market10 Sep 2035

Rotor come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Lokomotiv Moscow did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings10 Sep 2035

Nobody could get near Sergey Pinyaev

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

432 Edition

The Lokomotiv Moscow Sentinel

6 Nov 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market6 Nov 2034

Matvey Kislyak hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lokomotiv Moscow can pretend not to have heard.

Market6 Nov 2034

Matvey Kislyak has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lokomotiv Moscow they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom6 Nov 2034

The scrutiny sharpens at Lokomotiv Moscow

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Lokomotiv Moscow is running low.

Squad6 Nov 2034

Sergey Pinyaev has been here 12 seasons

380 appearances across 12 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Match4 Nov 2034

No end in sight to Lokomotiv Moscow's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lokomotiv Moscow has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad6 Nov 2034

Alerrandro 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 Lokomotiv Moscow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match4 Nov 2034

No clean sheets in sight for Lokomotiv Moscow

5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Squad6 Nov 2034

Words at Lokomotiv Moscow training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Siljanov 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.

Squad6 Nov 2034

Heinz Mörschel signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Heinz Mörschel and Lokomotiv Moscow agree another 2 years.

In brief

423 Edition

The Lokomotiv Moscow Sentinel

4 Sep 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match2 Sep 2034

No end in sight to Lokomotiv Moscow's wait for a win

8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lokomotiv Moscow has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad4 Sep 2034

Darijo Modric gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Darijo Modric has just signed for Lokomotiv Moscow, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad4 Sep 2034

Agustín Fernández says Lokomotiv Moscow went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market4 Sep 2034

Borislav Penkov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lokomotiv Moscow is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market4 Sep 2034

Enis Ujkaj raises the bar for Lokomotiv Moscow

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Lokomotiv Moscow heard it as anything else.

Squad4 Sep 2034

Sergey Pinyaev signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sergey Pinyaev commits to Lokomotiv Moscow for another 4 years.

Squad4 Sep 2034

Tempers go at Lokomotiv Moscow

Alerrandro 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.

Player ratings4 Sep 2034

Nobody could get near Sergey Pinyaev

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings4 Sep 2034

The afternoon belonged to Fasson

7.77, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Lokomotiv Moscow had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief