The NK Varazdin Chronicle
The terraces29 May 2028
Supporters organise against the NK Varazdin board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Market29 May 2028
Only the photograph left for Fran Ivan Marić
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Fran Ivan Marić will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around NK Varazdin the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad29 May 2028
A falling-out at NK Varazdin
Iuri Tavares and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad29 May 2028
Words at NK Varazdin training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mario Šuver 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.
Squad29 May 2028
NK Varazdin lose Luka Erceg
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market29 May 2028
The Robby McCrorie talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. NK Varazdin know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- The dugout Zac Williams has been promised minutes
- The dugout Matthijs van Nispen knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager comes out for Aleksa Latković
- Squad Mateo Barać back in training