The Dinamo Zagreb Gazette
Match8 May 2028
The view from the top for Dinamo Zagreb
42 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Market8 May 2028
Moris Valinčić 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.
Market8 May 2028
Leon Belcar 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.
Squad8 May 2028
Nikola Čavlina in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Zagreb this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market8 May 2028
Marcelo Cop steps up from the Dinamo Zagreb academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marcelo Cop 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.
Market8 May 2028
One of our own: Luka Vlasic joins the Dinamo Zagreb first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luka Vlasic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Loan watch8 May 2028
Fran Topić keeps scoring at Primorje
17 appearances away from home and 13 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
The dugout8 May 2028
Diego Costa 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 Diego Costa is on it.
Loan watch8 May 2028
Nobody is scoring past Tai Žnuderl at Olympiakos Nicosia
9 shut-outs in 25 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Tai Žnuderl has been having a lot of them.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Dinamo Zagreb
- Loan watch Smail Prevljak keeps scoring at Sesvete
- Loan watch Aleks Stojaković keeps scoring at Jarun Zagreb