Daniel Leclerc

Defensive Midfielder - Sibenik
4 Aug 2043
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Daniel Leclerc

858 Edition

The Sibenik Post

5 Jan 2043
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

$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.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

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.

Boardroom

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.

Boardroom

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

Back issues
839 Edition

The Sibenik Post

25 Aug 2042
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Giorgi Gogatishvili breaks a bone — 123 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 123 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

The cup run ends for Sibenik

2‑3 against Hrvatski Dragovoljac, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

Gianluca Parisi keeps Sibenik in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Benjamin Murray runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Nart Ahmeti, 36, rolls back the years — 7.80

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.80 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Tin Tadic keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Sibenik may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Sibenik

Stefan Bastaja was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Nart Ahmeti the difference as Sibenik beat Rudes

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Nart Ahmeti. 2‑1 against Rudes, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market

Eyes on Ante Knezevic again

The phone has started ringing about Ante Knezevic again, and this time the name on the line is HNK Vukovar 1991. Sibenik are listening politely and promising nothing.

In brief