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The Lucko Gazette

17 Mar 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad17 Mar 2036

Dinko Utrobičić damages knee ligaments — 113 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 113 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom17 Mar 2036

The scrutiny sharpens at Lucko

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Lucko is running low.

Squad17 Mar 2036

Home is on Jing Reec's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Lucko are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Boardroom17 Mar 2036

The borrowing at Lucko reaches $21.2M

Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $21.2M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.

Market17 Mar 2036

Still no ink between Lucko and Goran Orsic

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

The dugout17 Mar 2036

The manager makes an example of Marko Kovac

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout17 Mar 2036

Nikola Tadic 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 Nikola Tadic is on it.

Market17 Mar 2036

Giuseppe D'Angelo runs his contract down

3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Lucko money.

Squad17 Mar 2036

Thiago Fernández has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Lucko know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

In brief

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The Lucko Gazette

18 Feb 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom18 Feb 2036

The scrutiny sharpens at Lucko

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Lucko is running low.

Boardroom18 Feb 2036

The borrowing at Lucko reaches $21.9M

Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $21.9M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.

The dugout18 Feb 2036

Antonio Barbosa 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.

The dugout18 Feb 2036

When it matters, Nikola Tadic plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market18 Feb 2036

Giuseppe D'Angelo runs his contract down

4 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Lucko money.

The dugout18 Feb 2036

Nikola Tadic 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 Lucko, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market18 Feb 2036

Marin Knezevic placed on the list

Lucko have made Marin Knezevic available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Boardroom18 Feb 2036

The Lucko academy earns its keep

104 graduates, from a department now rated 9 out of 20. Nothing about the academy appears in a result, and nothing about the club’s future exists without it.

Squad18 Feb 2036

Marko Kovac is not doing himself any favours

A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.

In brief

497 Edition

The Lucko Gazette

4 Feb 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom4 Feb 2036

Interim Coach has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Lucko can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Match4 Feb 2036

Every point is an argument now for Lucko

Position 10 and 21 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.

The terraces4 Feb 2036

The mood at Lucko has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Boardroom4 Feb 2036

Window shuts: 0 in, 6 out at Lucko

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 0 arrived, 6 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market4 Feb 2036

Only the photograph left for Marin Knezevic

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marin Knezevic will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lucko the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad4 Feb 2036

Tempers go at Lucko

Filip Marić 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.

Boardroom4 Feb 2036

The owner puts $478.2K into Lucko

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

Transfer targets4 Feb 2036

Lucko rebuffed over Bruno Mišura

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Zagreb have kept their man, and Lucko go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market4 Feb 2036

Lucko and Giuseppe D'Angelo are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief