André-Pierre Gignac

Striker - Retired
17 Sep 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for André-Pierre Gignac

17 Edition

The Dinamo Zagreb Gazette

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Renzo Saravia out for 86 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dinamo Zagreb will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

A brace, and Diego Costa takes the afternoon — 7.95

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Diego Costa provided it, and the 7.95 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Tempers go at Dinamo Zagreb

Dion Beljo 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.

Match

Whatever happens, Dinamo Zagreb do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Diego Costa 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.

Squad

No hiding place for André-Pierre Gignac

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to André-Pierre Gignac, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Monsef Bakrar runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Loan watch

Roko Ban has seen enough of Istra 1961

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Dinamo Zagreb, and 1 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.

Match

Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk Split take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

Back issues
13 Edition

The Dinamo Zagreb Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Renzo Saravia breaks a bone — 117 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 117 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Ivan Filipović says Dinamo Zagreb went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Tempers go at Dinamo Zagreb

Dion Beljo 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.

Squad

Diego Costa 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.

Loan watch

Roko Ban counts the days

“I watch every Dinamo Zagreb game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Istra 1961 runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Player ratings

Niko Farkaš runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief