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Uneasy
Market24 Jul 2028
“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.
Market24 Jul 2028
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market24 Jul 2028
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market24 Jul 2028
The shirt still fits. Jan Balkovec is back at NK Krka, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad24 Jul 2028
“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.
Match22 Jul 2028
NK Krka and Koper take a point apiece
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Crisis
Market26 Jun 2028
“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.
Squad26 Jun 2028
41 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market26 Jun 2028
Žan Leban linked with a move away
The name of Žan Leban keeps appearing in other people's back pages. NK Krka say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Match5 Jun 2028
NK Krka are in real trouble now
Position 9, 13 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.
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market5 Jun 2028
Daniel Maxim 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 NK Krka can pretend not to have heard.
Market5 Jun 2028
Marko Brkić is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at NK Krka has been clear about where Marko Brkić stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad5 Jun 2028
The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for Maqsat Ämirkhanov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad5 Jun 2028
NK Krka will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
$1.3M taken back off the NK Krka table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Market5 Jun 2028
Luka Čadež linked with a move away
The name of Luka Čadež keeps appearing in other people's back pages. NK Krka say nothing, which says plenty.
Market5 Jun 2028
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Crisis
Squad29 May 2028
69 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market29 May 2028
Žan Leban linked with a move away
The name of Žan Leban keeps appearing in other people's back pages. NK Krka say nothing, which says plenty.
Market29 May 2028
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Luka Baš may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Crisis
Match14 Feb 2028
NK Krka are in real trouble now
Position 9, 13 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.
Market14 Feb 2028
“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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
150 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Milot Avdyli asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad14 Feb 2028
“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.
Market14 Feb 2028
The window shut and Bruno Župan is still in the building
NK Krka spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.
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Crisis
Match11 Sep 2027
No end in sight to NK Krka's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at NK Krka has to find a result from somewhere.
Match11 Sep 2027
Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Nik Kapun 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Milot Avdyli knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at NK Krka, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A new face in his position, and Čedomir Bumbić suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. NK Krka have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Žan Leban unhappy with how he is being used
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Žan Leban has let it be known that he does not like the way NK Krka are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
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Steady
Squad15 Mar 2027
“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.
Market15 Mar 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around NK Krka they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daniel Maxim commits to NK Krka for another 3 years.