The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier
Match22 Jul 2028
No end in sight to Lokomotiva Zagreb's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lokomotiva Zagreb has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Real improvement from Matija Subotić at Lokomotiva Zagreb
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Matija Subotić is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market24 Jul 2028
Only the photograph left for Šime Gržan
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Šime Gržan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lokomotiva Zagreb the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom24 Jul 2028
Graduation day at Lokomotiva Zagreb
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Words at Lokomotiva Zagreb training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leon Belcar 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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Luka Dajčer 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 Lokomotiva Zagreb this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces24 Jul 2028
The crowd has taken to Cheikh Mbacke Diop
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Marcos Echeverría has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Market24 Jul 2028
Lokomotiva Zagreb promote Daniel Sucic from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Sucic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Mislav Kovac steps up from the Lokomotiva Zagreb academy
- Market Sime Simunovic steps up from the Lokomotiva Zagreb academy
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Cheikh Mbacke Diop