The HNK Rijeka Chronicle
Market23 Jun 2031
Ivan Ćubelić agrees terms with Hajduk Split
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around HNK Rijeka people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market23 Jun 2031
Krešimir Radoš asks to leave HNK Rijeka
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market23 Jun 2031
Only the photograph left for Ante Kavelj
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ante Kavelj will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around HNK Rijeka the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad23 Jun 2031
A falling-out at HNK Rijeka
Federico Bonazzoli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Jun 2031
HNK Rijeka lose Zvonimir Katalinić
69 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad23 Jun 2031
Words at HNK Rijeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Toni Silić 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.
Transfer targets23 Jun 2031
PSV tell HNK Rijeka: Josip Šutalo 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.
Market23 Jun 2031
HNK Rijeka promote Darijo Corluka from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Darijo Corluka 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.
Squad23 Jun 2031
Too much change too quickly at HNK Rijeka
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Michele Šego plays
- The dugout The manager makes Tom Bloxham a promise
- The dugout Matija Malekinušić knocks on the manager's door