Bruno Benko

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Ural
15 Sep 2038
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Marked for Bruno Benko

627 Edition

The Ural Chronicle

2 Aug 2038
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market2 Aug 2038

Həbib Hüşənov asks to leave Ural

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom2 Aug 2038

The Ural board want somebody sold

The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.

Market2 Aug 2038

Only the photograph left for Bruno Benko

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Bruno Benko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ural the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad2 Aug 2038

Vladislav Malkevich signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vladislav Malkevich commits to Ural for another 2 years.

Boardroom2 Aug 2038

Bruno Benko signs for Krylya Sovetov while still at Ural

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Bruno Benko has agreed terms with Krylya Sovetov for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad2 Aug 2038

Vladislav Samko 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 Ural this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad2 Aug 2038

Kufre Eta 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.

Boardroom2 Aug 2038

The owner puts $1.4M into Ural

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

Squad2 Aug 2038

Həbib Hüşənov gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

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The Hajduk Split Post

22 Dec 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad22 Dec 2036

A knee injury of the worst kind for Roman Plaminskyi

52 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hajduk Split lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market22 Dec 2036

Duvan Valencia is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hajduk Split is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad22 Dec 2036

Jasper Samooja says Hajduk Split went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

In brief

540 Edition

The Hajduk Split Post

1 Dec 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad1 Dec 2036

A knee injury of the worst kind for Roman Plaminskyi

75 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hajduk Split lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad1 Dec 2036

15 seasons of Rokas Pukstas

349 appearances across 15 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Hajduk Split know what they have.

Squad1 Dec 2036

Matthew Matthews: 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.” Hajduk Split have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

In brief

536 Edition

The Hajduk Split Post

3 Nov 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Nov 2036

A knee injury of the worst kind for Roman Plaminskyi

105 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hajduk Split lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match29 Oct 2036

Hajduk Split through in the cup

A 4‑2 win over Sibenik, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings3 Nov 2036

A brace, and Joel Orlando takes the afternoon — 9.15

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Joel Orlando provided it, and the 9.15 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings3 Nov 2036

Both of them Milton Cantero's — 9.10

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.10, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad3 Nov 2036

A fracture rules Anthony Pavlešić out for 39 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hajduk Split will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad3 Nov 2036

13 seasons of Šimun Hrgović

308 appearances across 13 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Hajduk Split know what they have.

Squad3 Nov 2036

A one-man rearguard from Toni Silić

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market3 Nov 2036

Only the photograph left for Bruno Benko

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Bruno Benko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hajduk Split the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match1 Nov 2036

6 goals as Hajduk Split and Lokomotiva Zagreb go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Hajduk Split and Lokomotiva Zagreb, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

In brief