Robert Boric

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Dinamo Zagreb U20
17 Nov 2032
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Robert Boric

248 Edition

The Dinamo Zagreb Gazette

28 Apr 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Market

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

Back issues
246 Edition

The Dinamo Zagreb Gazette

14 Apr 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Josip Mišić out for 77 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.

The dugout

Robert Boric: 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.” Dinamo Zagreb have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Roko Ban is on his way

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Dinamo Zagreb

Manfred Ugalde 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

Moris Valinčić 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.

Loan watch

Jona Benkotić wants to come home

“I did not go to Segesta to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dinamo Zagreb and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.

The dugout

Manfred Ugalde has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Dinamo Zagreb will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alfonso Barco

“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.

The dugout

Fran Topić knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dinamo Zagreb, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

244 Edition

The Dinamo Zagreb Gazette

31 Mar 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Moris Valinčić wants more than Dinamo Zagreb are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Words exchanged at Dinamo Zagreb

Sergi Domínguez 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.

Market

Deen Okanović is on his way

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

Squad

Moris Valinčić 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.

The dugout

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.

Market

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