The Primorje Courier
The terraces28 Feb 2028
The mood at Primorje has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Boardroom28 Feb 2028
The scrutiny sharpens at Primorje
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Primorje is running low.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Cheveyo Tsawa 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 Primorje this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Feb 2028
A row about effort at Primorje
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Filip Taraba was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 Feb 2028
A muscle injury sidelines Robert Kurtovic for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Primorje will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
No hiding place for Ali Reghba
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ali Reghba, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Feb 2028
5 new faces, and Primorje 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.
Market28 Feb 2028
The Samo Pridgar story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Samo Pridgar signs something — a contract at Primorje or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
When it matters, Josip Perković 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.
In brief
- The dugout Tilen Klemenčič knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager comes out for Cheveyo Tsawa
- Loan watch Alexander Stožinić watches his loan from the bench