The Sibenik Post
Squad5 Jan 2043
Nart Ahmeti is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Sibenik will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market5 Jan 2043
Eyes on Antonio Santiago again
The phone has started ringing about Antonio Santiago again, and this time the name on the line is Istra 1961. Sibenik are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad5 Jan 2043
Daniel Leclerc says Sibenik went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad5 Jan 2043
Duje Biuk signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Duje Biuk and Sibenik agree another 2 years.
Boardroom5 Jan 2043
$301.4K of the owner's money at Sibenik
The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.
Squad5 Jan 2043
Words at Sibenik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikita Romas 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.
Boardroom5 Jan 2043
No signings allowed at Sibenik
The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.
Boardroom5 Jan 2043
The Sibenik debt reaches $26.6M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
Boardroom5 Jan 2043
Wages eat 85% of everything Sibenik earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
In brief
- Market The clock does Sergio Raimondi’s negotiating for him
- Market Sibenik put Reuben Lawal up for sale