Boris Vukas

Left Forward - Dinamo Zagreb U20
25 May 2030
Saturday
Process

Marked for Boris Vukas

179 Edition

The Dinamo Zagreb Gazette

31 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Florian Kastenmeier keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dinamo Zagreb may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Only the photograph left for Gabrijel Šivalec

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gabrijel Šivalec will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Zagreb the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Home is on Mohamed Ali Ben Romdhane's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Dinamo Zagreb are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Words at Dinamo Zagreb training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mojmír Chytil 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

Grischa Prömel gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Grischa Prömel is on it.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Lukas Kačavenda

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Dinamo Zagreb told Lukas Kačavenda something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Loan watch

6 clean sheets on loan for Matej Grahovac

17 appearances at Konyaspor and the goals have stopped going in. Dinamo Zagreb lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.

Loan watch

5 goals on loan for Kaloyan Bozhkov

14 appearances at Uskok and the goals keep coming. Dinamo Zagreb are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

The dugout

Léo Jardim 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 Léo Jardim has written the date down.

In brief

Back issues
157 Edition

The Dinamo Zagreb Gazette

30 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Terms done: Aleks Stojaković is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Orijent 1919 waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Dinamo Zagreb is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Not going: Nikolas Šimić stays at Dinamo Zagreb

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Segesta had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market

Luka Stojković 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 Dinamo Zagreb can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Dinamo Zagreb turn down Dinamo Brest for Luka Ivanušec

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings

Ángel Correa, 34, rolls back the years — 7.84

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.84 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match

Dinamo Zagreb cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Match

Luka Stojković sends Dinamo Zagreb past Orijent 1919

It finished 2‑0, and it was Luka Stojković’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Dinamo Zagreb.

Squad

Home is on Mohamed Abo Fani's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Dinamo Zagreb are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

A row about effort at Dinamo Zagreb

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luka Ivanušec was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

  • Squad 21 new faces, and Dinamo Zagreb are still learning each other
  • Squad Boris Vukas stays put
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict