The Croatia Zmijavci Post
Squad22 May 2028
Robert Grbic damages knee ligaments — 20 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 20 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad22 May 2028
Words exchanged at Croatia Zmijavci
Bo Geens and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad22 May 2028
Words at Croatia Zmijavci training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dario Barada 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.
Squad22 May 2028
Florian Monseu stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Florian Monseu and Croatia Zmijavci agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market22 May 2028
The Silas Nwankwo question follows Croatia Zmijavci around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Silas Nwankwo’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout22 May 2028
When it matters, Adrian Ziarek plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- The dugout Joseph Iyendjock knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Croatia Zmijavci put Matko Zirdum up for sale
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Marko Pavlak