Ivan Babic

Striker - Solin U18
7 May 2030
Tuesday
Process

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104 Edition

The Solin Post

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

14 days out for Petar Perko after a fracture

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

Market

Loren Maružin 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 Solin can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Sten Teunissen says Solin 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

Tarik Šikalo 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 Solin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Solin

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Transfer targets

NK Osijek tell Solin: Milan Sutalo 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 row about effort at Solin

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

The terraces

One of their own: Matej Radaić

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Market

Stipe Sucic steps up from the Solin academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stipe Sucic has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief