The Dinamo Zagreb Gazette
The dugout31 Dec 2029
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.
Market31 Dec 2029
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.
Squad31 Dec 2029
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.
Squad31 Dec 2029
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 dugout31 Dec 2029
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 dugout31 Dec 2029
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 watch31 Dec 2029
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 watch31 Dec 2029
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 dugout31 Dec 2029
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
- Squad Grischa Prömel is training like a man with a point to make
- Squad Boris Vukas is fit again