The Varteks Post
Squad24 Jul 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mislav Colak
76 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Varteks lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match22 Jul 2028
No end in sight to Varteks's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Varteks has to find a result from somewhere.
The dugout24 Jul 2028
Marin Božanović keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Varteks may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Words exchanged at Varteks
Stipe Vladušić and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets24 Jul 2028
Varteks baulk at the price for Vuk Vlahović
Dinamo Zagreb wanted more than $31.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Boardroom24 Jul 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Varteks
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 targets24 Jul 2028
Bjelovar tell Varteks: Luigi Mišević 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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Stjepan Šalić 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.
Market24 Jul 2028
One of our own: Mislav Colak joins the Varteks first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mislav Colak is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
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