The Dinamo Zagreb Gazette
Match14 Feb 2028
Dinamo Zagreb are top
46 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Market14 Feb 2028
Paul Bismarck Tabinas is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Zagreb is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Dinamo Zagreb
Mohamed Abo Fani and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market14 Feb 2028
One of our own: Mate Vukas joins the Dinamo Zagreb first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mate Vukas is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Feb 2028
Dinamo Zagreb promote Bruno Modric from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bruno Modric 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.
Market14 Feb 2028
Dario Tadic steps up from the Dinamo Zagreb academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dario Tadic has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Loan watch14 Feb 2028
Tai Žnuderl wants to come home
“I did not go to Bukhara to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dinamo Zagreb and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 23 matches say the rest.
Loan watch14 Feb 2028
The goals keep arriving from Anton Matković’s exile
10 goals in 21 games at Hartberg — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Dinamo Zagreb updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
Dion Beljo 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 Dion Beljo is on it.
In brief
- Loan watch 9 goals on loan for Krešimir Radoš
- The dugout Florian Kastenmeier knocks on the manager's door
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Sven Šunta’s exile