Matej Simunovic

Central Defender - Trnje U18
3 Jul 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Matej Simunovic

104 Edition

The Trnje Chronicle

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The run at home goes on for Trnje

15 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

The dugout

Nikodem Kołodziej keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Trnje may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Trnje say no — this time

The offer from Orijent 1919 for Tadej Bonaca was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Dario Barada 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 Trnje this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Trnje

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.

Transfer targets

Hajduk Split tell Trnje: Šime Perko 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Trnje

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luka Pršlja was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Trnje promote Matej Simunovic from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matej Simunovic 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.

Market

Ivan Colak steps up from the Trnje academy

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

In brief