Peter Lindstrom

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Istra 1961
17 Apr 2033
Sunday
Process

Marked for Peter Lindstrom

348 Edition

The Istra 1961 Post

28 Mar 2033
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

54 days out for Marin Laušić after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Istra 1961 will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Ilias Panagakos 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 The request is on a desk at Istra 1961, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Istra 1961

Lukas Čeh and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Words at Istra 1961 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Krstanović 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.

The dugout

Marin Laušić knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Marin Laušić trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Peter Lindstrom

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

The Samuele Vignato talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Istra 1961 know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

Niko Tkalčević gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Niko Tkalčević is on it.

Market

Still no signature from Nikola Macolić

5 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Istra 1961 could get for him.

In brief

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332 Edition

The Istra 1961 Post

6 Dec 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

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 Istra 1961 can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market

Samuele Vignato 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 Istra 1961, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

8 saves: Toni Silić was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings

Vintage Danijel Šturm — 8.05

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.05, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Words exchanged at Istra 1961

Lukas Čeh and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A move Peter Lindstrom would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Peter Lindstrom is living that version at Istra 1961, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Words at Istra 1961 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bartol Kardum 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Samuele Vignato

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.37, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Looking ahead

A six-pointer for Istra 1961

Slaven Belupo next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.

In brief