Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around NK Domzale they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Handanovic 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.
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 clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at NK Domzale is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Handanovic 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.
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.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around NK Domzale they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Tomas Bijol 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.
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Matic Birsa 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.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around NK Domzale they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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.
Nemanja Gavrić 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.
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Handanovic 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.
Position 1, 15 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Filip Handanovic, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.23
A mark of 8.23 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-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.
A season average of 7.00 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. NK Domzale know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Handanovic 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 23 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.
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.