The Dinamo Zagreb Gazette
Market27 Dec 2027
Arbër Hoxha 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.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
Mateo Lisica 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 Mateo Lisica is on it.
Match27 Dec 2027
Continental football is in reach for Dinamo Zagreb
25 points from position 4. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
Loan watch27 Dec 2027
5 goals on loan for Fran Topić
18 appearances at Rudes and the goals keep coming. Dinamo Zagreb are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market27 Dec 2027
Dinamo Zagreb put Moris Valinčić up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Moris Valinčić may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market27 Dec 2027
The Arbër Hoxha question follows Dinamo Zagreb around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Arbër Hoxha’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Loan watch27 Dec 2027
Josip Mišić has made Cibalia’s shirt his own
16 starts now, an average of 6.76, and the team sheet at Cibalia has stopped being a question. Exactly what everybody signed up for.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Samy Mmaee takes up the language
The least glamorous thing a foreign signing ever does and the one that decides most of them. A player who can hear the shout behind him is a different footballer from one who cannot.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
Arbër Hoxha keeps his manager's vote
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Arbër Hoxha plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
In brief
- Squad Robert Mudražija is the talk of the training ground
- Squad Mislav Perisic is out on the grass again