Michy Fellaini

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Hrvatski Dragovoljac
20 Nov 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Michy Fellaini

161 Edition

The Hrvatski Dragovoljac Courier

27 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The cup run ends for Hrvatski Dragovoljac

0‑0 against Dugopolje, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

Giovanni Jerolimov is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Giovanni Jerolimov: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Market

Luka Gale asks to leave Hrvatski Dragovoljac

“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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Mario Ivanovic

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mario Ivanovic will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hrvatski Dragovoljac the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings

Michy Fellaini was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Tempers go at Hrvatski Dragovoljac

Jack Vale 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.

Transfer targets

Cibalia tell Hrvatski Dragovoljac: Ivan Gulko is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Words at Hrvatski Dragovoljac training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Tomić 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.

Player ratings

David Večerić fails from the spot

Twelve yards and the whole ground holding its breath, and it did not go in. He will put his name down for the next one, which is the only thing to do.

In brief

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152 Edition

The Hrvatski Dragovoljac Courier

25 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Mario Ivanovic puts it in writing

“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 Hrvatski Dragovoljac, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Bruno Mišura is a medical away from Hrvatski Dragovoljac

The deal with Hajduk Split is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Words exchanged at Hrvatski Dragovoljac

Jack Vale and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Michy Fellaini gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Michy Fellaini has just signed for Hrvatski Dragovoljac, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Raul Bezeljak

Hrvatski Dragovoljac asked and Cibalia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A row about effort at Hrvatski Dragovoljac

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateo Tomić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Hrvatski Dragovoljac sign Michy Fellaini, one for the future

Michy Fellaini is 19, and Hrvatski Dragovoljac have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad

Michy Fellaini stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Michy Fellaini and Hrvatski Dragovoljac agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

Evan Watts 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 Hrvatski Dragovoljac, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief