The Dugopolje Post
Squad30 Dec 2030
Tempers go at Dugopolje
Bruno Zdunić 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.
Squad30 Dec 2030
The manager makes an example of Tino Krešić
“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.
Squad30 Dec 2030
Kacper Kucharczyk falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom30 Dec 2030
88% of the income goes out in wages at Dugopolje
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad30 Dec 2030
When it matters, Mateo Smodlaka 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.
Market30 Dec 2030
The Ivan Delić talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dugopolje know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Market Georgy Guryev leaves for nothing
- Boardroom The Dugopolje production line keeps running