Kevin Lovric

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The NK Maribor Post

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market16 Oct 2028

Isaac Tshipamba is on his way

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

Market16 Oct 2028

Kevin Lovric 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 The request is on a desk at NK Maribor, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

When it matters, Žan Karničnik plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

The manager makes an example of Kirill Ushatov

“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.

Market16 Oct 2028

The Tio Cipot story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Tio Cipot signs something — a contract at NK Maribor or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

Luka Guček has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Luka Guček has written the date down.

Squad16 Oct 2028

A wage question at NK Maribor

Pedro Lucas has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.

Boardroom16 Oct 2028

The NK Maribor production line keeps running

19 graduates out of an academy now rated 11 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.

Looking ahead16 Oct 2028

Looking ahead: the trip to Rudar Velenje

Position 9 for the hosts, a long journey for the away end, and a fixture that will look ordinary on paper right up until it is not.

In brief

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The NK Maribor Post

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad31 May 2027

A falling-out at NK Maribor

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

The dugout31 May 2027

The manager makes an example of Nejc Viher

“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.

Market31 May 2027

Žiga Repas told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Žiga Repas has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at NK Maribor.

Squad31 May 2027

5 new faces, and NK Maribor are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad31 May 2027

Kevin Lovric stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Kevin Lovric and NK Maribor agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market31 May 2027

A year gone for Čedomir Bumbić

The loan was meant to give him football. 0 games and 0 goals later he is back at NK Maribor no further forward, and everybody involved will explain why it was not their doing.

The dugout31 May 2027

Matej Tadič 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 Matej Tadič trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market31 May 2027

Luka Zahovič linked with a move away

The name of Luka Zahovič keeps appearing in other people's back pages. NK Maribor say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout31 May 2027

Ali Reghba has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at NK Maribor will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

43 Edition

The NK Maribor Post

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout24 May 2027

Kevin Lovric: 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.” NK Maribor have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad24 May 2027

Words exchanged at NK Maribor

Nejc Viher 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.

Market24 May 2027

One of our own: Sandi Cerin joins the NK Maribor first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sandi Cerin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market24 May 2027

One of our own: Gregor Sikosek joins the NK Maribor first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gregor Sikosek is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market24 May 2027

NK Maribor promote Erik Kampl from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Erik Kampl has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market24 May 2027

NK Maribor promote Timi Verbic from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Timi Verbic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Squad24 May 2027

Words at NK Maribor training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benjamin Tetteh 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.

Loan watch24 May 2027

Vid Novak counts the days

“I watch every NK Maribor game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at ND Gorica runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout24 May 2027

Jonathan Hogg 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.

In brief