Ivan Petkov

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Jarun Zagreb U20
11 May 2029
Friday
Process

Marked for Ivan Petkov

85 Edition

The Jarun Zagreb Sentinel

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Mateo Vukas damages knee ligaments — 99 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 99 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Jarun Zagreb sink to position 14

24 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad

Abdoulaye Djiré wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Jarun Zagreb know it.

Squad

Abdoulaye Djiré 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.

Squad

Jarun Zagreb count the cost of losing Ivan Petkov

23 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout

Jarun Zagreb keep their word to Aleksander Gysler Støa

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief

Back issues
46 Edition

The Jarun Zagreb Sentinel

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at Jarun Zagreb

Paschal Durugbor and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Words at Jarun Zagreb training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdoulaye Djiré 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Žiga Repas

Jarun Zagreb asked and NK Maribor said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Duje Ivanovic steps up from the Jarun Zagreb academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Duje Ivanovic 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.

Market

One of our own: Hrvoje Sutalo joins the Jarun Zagreb first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hrvoje Sutalo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Ivan Petkov steps up from the Jarun Zagreb academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ivan Petkov 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.

Market

One of our own: Dino Kasalo joins the Jarun Zagreb first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dino Kasalo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Transfer targets

Jarun Zagreb try to borrow Benjamin Tetteh

NK Maribor have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Jarun Zagreb try to borrow Žiga Repas

NK Maribor have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief