The NK Maribor Post
Market8 Feb 2027
Luka Zahovič puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at NK Maribor, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market8 Feb 2027
Luka Zahovič’s move to Olimpija Ljubljana falls through
The deal that would have taken Luka Zahovič to Olimpija Ljubljana has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to NK Maribor with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Gamid Agalarov will not be coming to NK Maribor
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Dinamo Makhachkala is saying, and nobody at NK Maribor is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
NK Maribor rebuffed over Svit Sešlar
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. NK Celje have kept their man, and NK Maribor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
Luka Mlakar has seen enough of Suduva
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at NK Maribor, and 0 appearances in 26 say he has earned the hearing.
Market8 Feb 2027
Benjamin Lovric steps up from the NK Maribor academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Benjamin Lovric has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market8 Feb 2027
NK Maribor promote Petar Bijol from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Petar Bijol 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at NK Maribor
David Crespo 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Čedomir Bumbić 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.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Luka Zahovič
- The dugout Lan Vidmar has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout David Crespo knocks on the manager’s door