The Olimpija Ljubljana Gazette
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
$4.1M settles it between the clubs for Emanuele Schimmenti
Potenza have accepted the money. What Olimpija Ljubljana do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market19 Jul 2027
Rudar Velenje watching Dino Kojić
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Olimpija Ljubljana have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market19 Jul 2027
Žiga Pečjak has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Olimpija Ljubljana they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
The paperwork begins on Rareş Burnete
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Olimpija Ljubljana have done the hard part with Lecce, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
No thanks: Dinis Rodrigues rejects the move
Olimpija Ljubljana had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Napoli, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Olimpija Ljubljana rebuffed over Mattia Chiesa
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. ND Gorica have kept their man, and Olimpija Ljubljana go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Olimpija Ljubljana
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Olimpija Ljubljana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dino Kojić 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Veljko Jelenković 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 Olimpija Ljubljana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Market Olimpija Ljubljana promote Jan Handanovic from within
- Market One of our own: Gregor Kurtovic joins the Olimpija Ljubljana first team
- The dugout No hiding place for Bruno Lourenço