The HNK Gorica Herald
Squad2 Jul 2035
A fracture rules Zvonimir Josić out for 72 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason HNK Gorica will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom2 Jul 2035
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at HNK Gorica can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom2 Jul 2035
The HNK Gorica board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Market2 Jul 2035
Ruan Tressoldi 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 The request is on a desk at HNK Gorica, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad2 Jul 2035
Sven Šušković keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” HNK Gorica may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad2 Jul 2035
Jurica Pršir 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 HNK Gorica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Jul 2035
Words at HNK Gorica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Noa Mikić 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.
Boardroom2 Jul 2035
Intake day at the HNK Gorica academy
7 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.
Boardroom2 Jul 2035
HNK Gorica pull $4.1M back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
In brief
- Market Andrej Modric joins HNK Gorica on a free
- Market HNK Gorica and Leander Kompany are talking past each other
- Market Juraj Frigan placed on the list