“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 The request is on a desk at NK Domzale, and it is not being withdrawn.
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation NK Domzale did not have in the autumn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rok Skubic 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.
Tijan Vasić 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.
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.
He is going to MSK Zilina, the club has $1.7M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
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 shirt still fits. Tijan Vasić is back at NK Domzale, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jan Verbic, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tijan Vasić 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.
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Rok Skubic did not need any: 7.97, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
The offer from Akron for Mateo Pjaca 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.
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.
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.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Rok Skubic has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jure Bijol 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.
Jure Bijol, 17, plays like he has been here for years — 8.14
A mark of 8.14 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 17-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
“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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Sandi Oblak delivers — 7.70
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Sandi Oblak scored, was marked 7.70, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
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 deal that would have taken Filip Cerin to NK Zavrc has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to NK Domzale with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jure Bijol. 2‑1 against ND Gorica, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Gregorio Gatti's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Jure Bijol could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.88
Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.88, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A brace, and Sandi Oblak takes the afternoon — 8.08
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Sandi Oblak provided it, and the 8.08 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
7.31, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Ivan Erceg 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.
8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about NK Domzale and NK Krsko in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rok Skubic 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.
At 20 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.