Andrej Petkov

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501 Edition

The HNK Gorica Herald

3 Mar 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom3 Mar 2036

Pressure builds in the HNK Gorica boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Boardroom3 Mar 2036

HNK Gorica spell it out for Interim Coach

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Market3 Mar 2036

Ikenna Festus 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 HNK Gorica can pretend not to have heard.

Squad3 Mar 2036

Noa Karaselimović 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 HNK Gorica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout3 Mar 2036

The manager's exit leaves Stefan Bajić exposed

Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Stefan Bajić is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.

The dugout3 Mar 2036

Stefan Bajić asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market3 Mar 2036

Still no ink between HNK Gorica and Silvestar Ivančić

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at HNK Gorica, another week without a signature from Silvestar Ivančić.

Squad3 Mar 2036

A row about effort at HNK Gorica

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

The dugout3 Mar 2036

Morkus Ūkelis gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

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500 Edition

The HNK Gorica Herald

25 Feb 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad25 Feb 2036

A falling-out at HNK Gorica

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

Squad25 Feb 2036

Words at HNK Gorica training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simon Cletus 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.

Squad25 Feb 2036

Andrej Petkov signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andrej Petkov and HNK Gorica agree another 3 years.

The dugout25 Feb 2036

Vito Vuksan 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 HNK Gorica, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout25 Feb 2036

Luka Olić has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Luka Olić has written the date down.

Market25 Feb 2036

The clock does Silvestar Ivančić’s negotiating for him

3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee HNK Gorica could ask drops and the wages Silvestar Ivančić can ask rise.

In brief

493 Edition

The HNK Gorica Herald

7 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom7 Jan 2036

Interim Coach is out at HNK Gorica

Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.

Squad7 Jan 2036

A knee injury of the worst kind for Silvestar Ivančić

20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. HNK Gorica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom7 Jan 2036

HNK Gorica have nobody left to take training

Not an interim appointment — an institution with an empty coaching office. Somebody unfamiliar will run the sessions this week, and the question of how a club gets into this state is one the board will be asked and will not answer.

Market7 Jan 2036

Ikenna Festus 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 HNK Gorica can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom7 Jan 2036

Interim Coach steps up at HNK Gorica for now

“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.

Market7 Jan 2036

Ikenna Festus has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around HNK Gorica they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

The dugout7 Jan 2036

Andrej Petkov: 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.” HNK Gorica have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets7 Jan 2036

The paperwork begins on Matthias Stein

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. HNK Gorica have done the hard part with Segesta, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad7 Jan 2036

Noa Karaselimović 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 HNK Gorica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

421 Edition

The HNK Gorica Herald

21 Aug 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market21 Aug 2034

Morkus Ūkelis agrees terms with Uskok

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around HNK Gorica people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad21 Aug 2034

Ivan Zaverukha keeps HNK Gorica in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Transfer targets21 Aug 2034

HNK Gorica agree $360.0K for Andro Sokač

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

Squad21 Aug 2034

Tempers go at HNK Gorica

Ante Kozina 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.

The dugout21 Aug 2034

Bogdan Istratie frozen out at HNK Gorica

This is not rotation. Bogdan Istratie has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at HNK Gorica is pretending otherwise.

Squad21 Aug 2034

Mate Antunović 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.

Match19 Aug 2034

HNK Gorica come up short against Hajduk Split

Hajduk Split left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout21 Aug 2034

Interim Coach: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Transfer targets21 Aug 2034

HNK Gorica try to borrow David Martínez

Dinamo Zagreb have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief