Marked for Tomislav Srna
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tomislav Srna damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market14 Sep 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Lucko, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Lucko
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Lucko are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Lucko
Carlos Luque 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Sep 2026
Lucko cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Alex Cairns 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Hrvatski Dragovoljac, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Sep 2026
9 new faces, and Lucko are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tomislav Srna damages knee ligaments — 26 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 26 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match7 Sep 2026
Every point is an argument now for Lucko
Position 10 and 2 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Lucko
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Lucko are no longer polite ones.
Market7 Sep 2026
Josip Šoljić hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lucko can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Carlos Luque 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 Lucko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tomislav Srna damages knee ligaments — 33 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 33 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match29 Aug 2026
Nowhere to hide for Lucko
0‑3 against Segesta, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market31 Aug 2026
Lovro Stanić hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lucko can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Alexis Sinisterra has just signed for Lucko, and for once the answer mattered.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Lucko
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexis Sinisterra commits to Lucko for another 4 years.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Mario Babić 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 Lucko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
Inquest at Lucko
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tomislav Srna damages knee ligaments — 40 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 40 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Lucko out
Out, 0‑1 to Sesvete, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Lucko sell a favourite for $71.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Mario Karadakić was one of the reasons people came, and $71.0K does not replace that by itself.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Lucko's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lucko has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lucko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
Sibenik paid $71.0K and Lucko took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Lucko training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lovro Stanić 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 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.