The Slaven Belupo Chronicle
Match22 Jul 2028
No end in sight to Slaven Belupo's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Slaven Belupo has to find a result from somewhere.
Market24 Jul 2028
Only the photograph left for Ale Hernández
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ale Hernández will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slaven Belupo the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match22 Jul 2028
The run at home goes on for Slaven Belupo
11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Igor Lepinjica 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 Slaven Belupo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Máximo Ramón is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Boardroom24 Jul 2028
Graduation day at Slaven Belupo
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 Slaven Belupo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Josip Mišić 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
Karlo Sentić has improved at 27, 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
Slaven Belupo promote Antonio Vlasic from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Antonio Vlasic 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 One of our own: Daniel Grbic joins the Slaven Belupo first team
- Market Tin Ivanovic steps up from the Slaven Belupo academy
- Match Slaven Belupo and HNK Rijeka take a point apiece