Marked for Leonardo Sigali
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match3 Oct 2026
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
336% of the income goes out in wages at Lokomotiva Zagreb
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ibrahim Sabra, and the manager let it.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“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 Lokomotiva Zagreb, and 2 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
Match3 Oct 2026
It needed Leonardo Sigali to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against HNK Gorica, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market5 Oct 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market28 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lokomotiva Zagreb can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of David Virgili
“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.
Match26 Sep 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. NK Osijek defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Crisis
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lokomotiva Zagreb can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match29 Aug 2026
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market31 Aug 2026
Business is business: Blaž Bošković goes
Slaven Belupo paid $320.0K and Lokomotiva Zagreb took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Match29 Aug 2026
2‑3 to Hajduk Split, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kauã Alves, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Lokomotiva Zagreb did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Leonardo Sigali and Lokomotiva Zagreb agree another 2 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
Slaven Belupo pay $930.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Lokomotiva Zagreb, another week without a signature from Kauã Alves.
Match8 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matija Subotić, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marko Vešović commits to Lokomotiva Zagreb for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Josip Posavec, and the manager let it.
Match1 Aug 2026
0‑1 to HNK Gorica, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.