The Dinamo Zagreb Gazette
Squad23 Nov 2026
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 ratings23 Nov 2026
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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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.
Match21 Nov 2026
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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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 ratings23 Nov 2026
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 watch23 Nov 2026
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.
Match21 Nov 2026
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
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about André-Pierre Gignac
- Player ratings An afternoon André-Pierre Gignac will want back