The Cibalia Chronicle
Market7 Sep 2026
Petar Mišić asks to leave Cibalia
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 16 in, 1 out at Cibalia
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Levski tell Cibalia: Marko Dugandžić 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Cibalia
Filip Mekić 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Téo Barišić needs a bigger stage
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Cibalia know which stage they are at.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Cibalia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivo Vukić 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A step back for Karlo Kamenar at Cibalia
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Karlo Stapić 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 Cibalia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market7 Sep 2026
David Žabec linked with a move away
The name of David Žabec keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cibalia say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Market Cibalia borrow Phillipe Gabriel
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: Segesta at home
- The dugout Gabrijel Boban keeps his manager's vote