Daniel Petkovic

Left Forward - Slutsk
20 Jan 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Daniel Petkovic

11 Edition

The Slutsk Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ilya Branovets breaks a bone — 113 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 113 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Artem Tolkin has one foot out of the door

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

Boardroom

Slutsk to lose Yaroslav Yarotskiy for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Yaroslav Yarotskiy has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Tempers go at Slutsk

Kristijan Živković 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.

Squad

Vladislav Sychev 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.

Market

Slutsk buy the years ahead of Alexandr Krasnopevtsev

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Slutsk Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Ilya Branovets breaks a bone — 134 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 134 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

A European lesson for Slutsk

0‑1 against Sandefjord. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.

Match

The wait goes on for Slutsk

7 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.

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 6 of the 27 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Market

Only the photograph left for Pavel Tseslyukevich

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Pavel Tseslyukevich will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slutsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Slutsk

Vladislav Fedosov 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.

Squad

A move Daniel Petkovic 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. Daniel Petkovic is living that version at Slutsk, and it tends to show in the first month.

Boardroom

Slutsk beat the market to Ivan Mazurkevich from Slavia Mozyr

Slavia Mozyr will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Ivan Mazurkevich has pre-agreed a move to Slutsk, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Match

Smorgon take the points off Slutsk

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

5 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Dinamo Zagreb come back empty-handed

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

Player ratings

A brace, and Duje Colak takes the afternoon — 8.39

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Duje Colak provided it, and the 8.39 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Daniel Petkovic asks to leave Zadar

“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.

Match

Whatever happens, Zadar do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Tempers go at Zadar

Domagoj Sutalo 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Duje Colak

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Zadar see off Rudes

Three points for Zadar, 2‑0 the final word against Rudes in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Antonio Kramaric 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.

Player ratings

Domagoj Sutalo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief