The Beltinci Post
Squad1 Apr 2030
Marin Rantaša 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 Beltinci this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout1 Apr 2030
Kevin Brekalo frozen out at Beltinci
This is not rotation. Kevin Brekalo has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Beltinci is pretending otherwise.
Squad1 Apr 2030
Words at Beltinci training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vid Vipotnik 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.
Squad1 Apr 2030
The decline has begun for Ihor Yurechko
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 35 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Beltinci is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Boardroom1 Apr 2030
Beltinci are $11.5M in the red
The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.
Squad1 Apr 2030
Daniel Kamara wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Beltinci know it.
The dugout1 Apr 2030
Nik Zrnec knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nik Zrnec trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout1 Apr 2030
The manager's exit leaves Jiří Bederka exposed
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Jiří Bederka is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.
The dugout1 Apr 2030
The manager makes an example of Ivan Vukelić
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Tasos Kabagiovanis in it
- Boardroom Beltinci answer back