The Imotski Herald
Squad8 Mar 2027
The knee: Šime Žužul out for 65 days
65 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Imotski lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market8 Mar 2027
Marin Puljiz 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 The request is on a desk at Imotski, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Ivan Omazić: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Imotski have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Bo Geens signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Bo Geens and Imotski agree another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Imotski
Noa Mikić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Rodrigo Vicente arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Rodrigo Vicente has, at Imotski, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Market8 Mar 2027
Imotski promote Damir Srna from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Damir Srna 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 dugout8 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Dragan Lovrić
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Noa Mikić gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Noa Mikić is on it.
In brief
- Market Rodrigo Vicente joins Imotski on a free
- Market Still no ink between Imotski and Rodrigo Vicente
- The dugout Pavao Vugdelija knocks on the manager's door