The Radnik Krizevci Chronicle
Market12 Mar 2029
Only the photograph left for Josip Tarabarić
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Josip Tarabarić will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Radnik Krizevci the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom12 Mar 2029
The numbers do not look good at Radnik Krizevci
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad12 Mar 2029
A row about effort at Radnik Krizevci
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateo Tomić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Mar 2029
Mateo Kocijan gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad12 Mar 2029
Radnik Krizevci lose Tin Kovacevic
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout12 Mar 2029
A promise honoured at Radnik Krizevci
Something was said to Filip Vajdovčić and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Market12 Mar 2029
Talks stall between Radnik Krizevci and Filip Bosak
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout12 Mar 2029
David Petek knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and David Petek trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market12 Mar 2029
The Ivan Ninčević question follows Radnik Krizevci around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ivan Ninčević’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Stoyan Pergelov plays
- Market The shop window has Gonçalo Sousa in it
- Squad Rodrigo Gelado has had enough of the bench