Luka Tadic

Goalkeeper - Orijent 1919 U18
8 Jul 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Luka Tadic

133 Edition

The Orijent 1919 Sentinel

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Orijent 1919 are in real trouble now

Position 10, 8 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.

Squad

Luka Tadic damages knee ligaments — 16 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Marin Delić is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Orijent 1919 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Vyacheslav Yakimov in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Orijent 1919 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Orijent 1919 rebuffed over Husein Sumbuljević

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. HNK Gorica have kept their man, and Orijent 1919 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Words at Orijent 1919 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Braut 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.

The dugout

Vice Baždarić 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.

Market

Talks stall between Orijent 1919 and Dudu

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad

Somebody is after Vyacheslav Yakimov’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Vyacheslav Yakimov suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Orijent 1919 have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

In brief

Back issues
132 Edition

The Orijent 1919 Sentinel

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Orijent 1919 boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Luka Tadic damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom

Flavio Rossi has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Orijent 1919 can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market

Paizinho 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 Orijent 1919 can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 0 in, 0 out at Orijent 1919

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 0 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market

Jakub Wilczek has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Orijent 1919 they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Transfer targets

No deal for Marko Galić at that price

Orijent 1919 offered $450.0K; NK Varazdin said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

A falling-out at Orijent 1919

Vyacheslav Yakimov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Orijent 1919 rebuffed over Marin Stanić

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. NK Varazdin have kept their man, and Orijent 1919 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

57 Edition

The Orijent 1919 Sentinel

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Luka Tadic out for 20 days

20 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Orijent 1919 lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Divine Teah at 21 — 8.11

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Divine Teah did not need any: 8.11, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

The terraces

One of their own: Divine Teah

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Squad

Words at Orijent 1919 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Noel Bodetić 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.

Squad

Josip Budimir in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Orijent 1919 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Bjelovar snatch it back from Orijent 1919

A goal on 91 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Match

Maxim Voronov rescues a point for Orijent 1919

It needed Maxim Voronov to find the net to bring anything home at all: 3‑3 against Bjelovar, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad

Lorenco Šimić has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Orijent 1919 will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Player ratings

David Virgili beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief