The Slovan Ljubljana Chronicle
Market19 Jul 2032
Enej Kapun 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 The request is on a desk at Slovan Ljubljana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 Jul 2032
Tempers go at Slovan Ljubljana
Benjamin Adrović 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.
Boardroom19 Jul 2032
13 academy graduates step up at Slovan Ljubljana
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
A row about effort at Slovan Ljubljana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Janez Pišek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2032
Olimpija Ljubljana tell Slovan Ljubljana: Matevž Šimnovec 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.
Market19 Jul 2032
Miha Bijol steps up from the Slovan Ljubljana academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Miha Bijol 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.
Market19 Jul 2032
One of our own: Matic Ilicic joins the Slovan Ljubljana first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matic Ilicic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market19 Jul 2032
Slovan Ljubljana promote Tomas Oblak from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tomas Oblak 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.
Squad19 Jul 2032
Time is catching up with Eliseo Falcón
Everybody at Slovan Ljubljana saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 35 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
In brief
- Boardroom A promise the Slovan Ljubljana board did not keep
- Transfer targets A loan move for Ivan Kovačić is in the works
- Boardroom Slovan Ljubljana say no to the training-ground money