The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier
The dugout28 Feb 2028
Filip Markanović keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Lokomotiva Zagreb may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market28 Feb 2028
Noa Godec has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lokomotiva Zagreb they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Lokomotiva Zagreb
Alexandr Maximenko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market28 Feb 2028
One of our own: Daniel Bogdan joins the Lokomotiva Zagreb first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Bogdan is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market28 Feb 2028
Sime Knezevic steps up from the Lokomotiva Zagreb academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sime Knezevic 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.
Market28 Feb 2028
Lokomotiva Zagreb promote Dejan Bogdan from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dejan Bogdan 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.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
Luka Capan 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.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
When it matters, Aleksandar Trajkovski 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.
Match28 Feb 2028
Continental football is in reach for Lokomotiva Zagreb
33 points from position 4. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
In brief
- Squad “I want to play”: Gojko Jelić speaks
- The dugout Noel Đurković has been promised minutes
- Boardroom The Lokomotiva Zagreb production line keeps running