Peter Dragovic

Defensive Midfielder - Motor Lublin
7 Sep 2036
Sunday
Process

Marked for Peter Dragovic

486 Edition

The Motor Lublin Chronicle

19 Nov 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Petr Provod: 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.” Motor Lublin have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A falling-out at Motor Lublin

Filip Gustafsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Motor Lublin training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jakub Jędrasik 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.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 151% of the Motor Lublin income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Adam Ciućka

“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.

Squad

Motor Lublin lose Johan Denta

42 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Home is on Gustavo Miranda's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Motor Lublin are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout

Erwin Bahonko 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 Erwin Bahonko is on it.

Market

The clock does Mats Pedersen’s negotiating for him

1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Motor Lublin could ask drops and the wages Mats Pedersen can ask rise.

In brief

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465 Edition

The Motor Lublin Chronicle

25 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Adam Moder 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 Motor Lublin can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Motor Lublin

Filip Gustafsson 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.

Squad

Jakub Jędrasik 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.

Transfer targets

HNK Rijeka tell Motor Lublin: Harry Tchekwa is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Boardroom

Wages eat 104% of everything Motor Lublin earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Transfer targets

A loan move for José Martínes is in the works

Motor Lublin have made the call to Lech. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad

Peter Dragovic signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Peter Dragovic and Motor Lublin agree another 3 years.

The dugout

Mats Pedersen asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

The formation has left Peter Dragovic behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Motor Lublin will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief