The Rudar Velenje Courier
Market19 Jul 2032
Lan Jovanović agrees terms with Aluminij
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Rudar Velenje people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market19 Jul 2032
Nermin Haljeta 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 The request is on a desk at Rudar Velenje, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2032
Rudar Velenje agree $390.0K for Bujazid Hegić
The clubs have shaken hands with Triglav Kranj; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Squad19 Jul 2032
Tai Matea Panić out for 15 days
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Tai Matea Panić, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Boardroom19 Jul 2032
A new deal for Tomas Skubic
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Squad19 Jul 2032
Alexander Stožinić 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 Rudar Velenje this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom19 Jul 2032
12 academy graduates step up at Rudar Velenje
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 2032
Words at Rudar Velenje training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sandro Zukić 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 targets19 Jul 2032
Rudar Velenje rebuffed over Ionuţ Cojocaru
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Partizan have kept their man, and Rudar Velenje go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Market Nejc Lovric steps up from the Rudar Velenje academy
- Market One of our own: Robert Verbic joins the Rudar Velenje first team
- Boardroom A promise the Rudar Velenje board did not keep