Łukasz Bejger

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25 Oct 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Łukasz Bejger

10 Edition

The NK Celje Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Matej Poplatnik, 34, rolls back the years — 8.10

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.10 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match

5 matches without a win for NK Celje

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around NK Celje are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at NK Celje

Leonardo Koutris 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

Damjan Vuklišević 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 112% of everything NK Celje earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Nenad Damjanoski

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Nenad Damjanoski has come out of that comparison in the side, and NK Celje have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The NK Celje Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

David Lemos runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Eyes on Nino Vukasović again

The phone has started ringing about Nino Vukasović again, and this time the name on the line is ND Gorica. NK Celje are listening politely and promising nothing.

Match

NK Celje find a way past ND Gorica

ND Gorica made NK Celje work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Tempers go at NK Celje

Daniel Adjessa 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

The manager makes an example of Łukasz Bejger

“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.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Svit Sešlar

A mark of 7.84, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief

4 Edition

The NK Celje Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Andrej Kotnik hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what NK Celje can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Matej Poplatnik runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at NK Celje

Leonardo Koutris 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

Damjan Vuklišević 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

Mark Zabukovnik 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.

Player ratings

Žan Karničnik takes the honours

Marked 7.19 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, NK Celje had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

Łukasz Bejger dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Match

Point won or two lost for NK Celje?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Olimpija Ljubljana? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

Market

The Mario Kvesić question follows NK Celje around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mario Kvesić’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief