Ivan Rebic

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Rudes
2 Oct 2030
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Ivan Rebic

209 Edition

The Rudes Chronicle

29 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Sibenik punish Rudes for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Duje Korač will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Rudes escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Market

Stipe Duvnjak agrees terms with Lucko

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Rudes people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Player ratings

Domagoj Brekalo, 17, steals the show — 8.14

Marked 8.14 at 17, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Transfer targets

Raul Bezeljak turns down Rudes

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Sesvete keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Marcelo Rebic is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 17 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Words exchanged at Rudes

Adiele Eriugo 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.

Transfer targets

Rudes rebuffed over Ryan Ledson

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Zagreb have kept their man, and Rudes go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The terraces

Rudes supporters have found a favourite in Domagoj Brekalo

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 17-year-old it feels ownership of. Domagoj Brekalo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Karlo Kralj

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

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142 Edition

The Rudes Chronicle

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Only the photograph left for Bruno Unušić

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Bruno Unušić will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rudes the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Rudes

Adiele Eriugo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Rudes

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ivan Žutić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Noa Bilić has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Rudes will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ivan Rebic

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

The Karlo Kralj talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Rudes know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

  • Match Continental football is in reach for Rudes
  • Squad The training reports on Filip Holjevac are not good
  • Squad Karlo Kralj is out on the grass again