Daniel Colak

Goalkeeper - NK Krsko U20
27 May 2032
Thursday
Process

Marked for Daniel Colak

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The NK Krsko Herald

29 Dec 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

30 days out for Matic Kampl after a fracture

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

Market

Daniel Colak hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what NK Krsko can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A row about effort at NK Krsko

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bassirou Ndiaye was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A falling-out at NK Krsko

Daniel Colak and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

The formation has left Filip Ilicic behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. NK Krsko will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout

Daniel Valdelamar 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 Daniel Valdelamar trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Kristijan Bjelica 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 Kristijan Bjelica is on it.

The dugout

The manager makes Nikita Khvat a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at NK Krsko. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Boardroom

The NK Krsko academy earns its keep

67 graduates, from a department now rated 7 out of 20. Nothing about the academy appears in a result, and nothing about the club’s future exists without it.

In brief

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The NK Krsko Herald

16 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

NK Krsko agree $110.0K for Jure Ribič

The clubs have shaken hands with NK Krka; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Boardroom

NK Krsko agree a free transfer for Matic Sikosek

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Squad

Niki Radovič 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.

Transfer targets

NK Maribor tell NK Krsko: Sam Morris is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

A falling-out at NK Krsko

Bruno Župan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Ilja Chernyshev signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ilja Chernyshev and NK Krsko agree another 3 years.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Ousmane Touré is in the works

NK Krsko have made the call to Olimpija Ljubljana. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market

The ambition of Daniel Colak outgrows NK Krsko early

Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.

Market

NK Krsko sign Daniel Colak, one for the future

Daniel Colak is 19, and NK Krsko have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief