Daniel Kovac

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The Opatija Sentinel

8 Nov 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match8 Nov 2032

Every point is an argument now for Opatija

Position 12 and 7 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Match6 Nov 2032

Opatija taken apart

0‑3 to NK Varazdin, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

The dugout8 Nov 2032

Daniel Kovac: 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.” Opatija have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match6 Nov 2032

6 matches without a win for Opatija

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Opatija are no longer polite ones.

Squad8 Nov 2032

Words at Opatija training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marin Božanović 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.

The dugout8 Nov 2032

Josip Budimir 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.

Squad8 Nov 2032

A falling-out at Opatija

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

Boardroom8 Nov 2032

Nobody left the Opatija dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Player ratings8 Nov 2032

Anđelo Kordić beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

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The Hajduk Split Post

25 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Market25 Oct 2032

Šimun Hrgović wants more than Hajduk Split are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

The dugout25 Oct 2032

Šimun Hrgović 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.

Boardroom25 Oct 2032

134% of the income goes out in wages at Hajduk Split

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad25 Oct 2032

Ognjen Bakić 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.

Market25 Oct 2032

No place for David Kalem in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” David Kalem has his answer from Hajduk Split; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Match23 Oct 2032

Slaven Belupo snatch it back from Hajduk Split

A goal on 88 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Player ratings25 Oct 2032

Mateo Lisica runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout25 Oct 2032

The manager has not finished forgetting Fabijan Krivak's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Loan watch25 Oct 2032

Daniel Kovac wants to come home

“I did not go to Opatija to sit and watch. I want to come back to Hajduk Split and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 7 matches say the rest.

In brief