The Cibalia Chronicle
Squad8 Feb 2027
Sebastian Musiolik 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 Cibalia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Cibalia rebuffed over Vyacheslav Grulev
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nizhniy Novgorod have kept their man, and Cibalia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Renato Kelić
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Gévero Markiet signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gévero Markiet commits to Cibalia for another 1 years.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Sebastian Musiolik
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Sebastian Musiolik has come out of that comparison in the side, and Cibalia have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Andrija Bubnjar 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 Cibalia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Squad No place for Sekou Sanogo in the new shape
- The dugout Nikola Marić has been promised minutes
- Market The window shut and Marko Pervan is still in the building
- Market Martin Tadic leaves for nothing