Daniel Darida

Left Midfielder - Free Agent
13 Jul 2036
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Darida

429 Edition

The Jesenice Gazette

16 Oct 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Jan Kovač breaks a bone — 96 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 96 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Rene Kogoi 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 Jesenice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Borna Panić falls out with a teammate over standards

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.

Squad

Daniel Darida wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Jesenice can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout

Prokhor Struk 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

No place for Carl Krafth in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Carl Krafth has his answer from Jesenice; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

Daniel Darida 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.

Market

The shop window has Niko Škrlec in it

Jesenice have let the market know Niko Škrlec can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Market

Kristian Dakič linked with a move away

The name of Kristian Dakič keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Jesenice say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

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The Jesenice Gazette

4 Sep 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Daniel Darida 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 Jesenice can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Bas Dumfries: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Jesenice have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 15 signed and 23 gone

That is the business done at Jesenice until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Petar Skubic

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Jesenice have done the hard part with Beltinci, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Market

Blaž Kolar comes home

The shirt still fits. Blaž Kolar is back at Jesenice, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Squad

Words exchanged at Jesenice

Rene Kogoi 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.

Boardroom

$504.0K of the owner's money at Jesenice

The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.

Squad

Kristian Dakič falls out with a teammate over standards

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.

Transfer targets

Nafta 1903 tell Jesenice: Artem Demkiv 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.

In brief