The Dinamo Zagreb Gazette
Squad28 Apr 2031
A fracture rules Josip Mišić out for 61 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dinamo Zagreb will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad28 Apr 2031
Manfred Ugalde 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 Dinamo Zagreb this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market28 Apr 2031
Deen Okanović has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Zagreb they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Apr 2031
Words at Dinamo Zagreb training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moris Valinčić 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 dugout28 Apr 2031
Scott McKenna 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 Scott McKenna is on it.
Market28 Apr 2031
The Scott McKenna story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Scott McKenna signs something — a contract at Dinamo Zagreb or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- The dugout Robert Boric gets it from the manager
- The dugout A door opens for Antonio Maurić
- The dugout Josip Mišić knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Boris Erceg: “I am not a substitute”