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The Koper Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The terraces17 Aug 2026

Supporters turn on the $1.2M sale of Isaac Matondo

He is going to Bravo, the club has $1.2M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Giuseppe Agyemang

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Koper count the cost of losing Gašper Černe

51 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market17 Aug 2026

Isaac Matondo moves on

Bravo pay $1.2M, 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Koper

Josip Iličič and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Door shut on Denys Tvardovskyi

Koper asked and Shakhtar said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

One of their own: Andraž Ruedl

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match15 Aug 2026

Koper see off Radomlje

Three points for Koper, 1‑0 the final word against Radomlje in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

The afternoon belonged to Andraž Ruedl

A mark of 7.61, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief

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The Koper Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad10 Aug 2026

A one-man rearguard from Luka Baš

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market10 Aug 2026

Koper turn down Bistrica for Leo Rimac

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Leo Štulac pops up at the right end — 7.67

7.67, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Koper

Josip Iličič 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Erik Kampl joins the Koper first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Erik Kampl is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Rok Handanovic joins the Koper first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rok Handanovic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market10 Aug 2026

Tomas Sesko steps up from the Koper academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tomas Sesko has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Giuseppe Agyemang

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Isaac Matondo 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.

In brief

  • Squad No place for Ivan Lozić in the new shape
  • Squad Koper are still strangers to each other
  • Match Honours even between Koper and Mura
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The Koper Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad3 Aug 2026

A move Gašper Černe would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Gašper Černe is living that version at Koper, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market3 Aug 2026

Koper say no — this time

The offer from SM Caen for Isaac Matondo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Josip Iličič stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Josip Iličič and Koper agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Josip Iličič in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Koper this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match1 Aug 2026

A bad afternoon for Koper against Primorje

1‑2 to Primorje, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Andraž Ruedl 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Koper and Josip Iličič are talking past each other

“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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Nobody at Koper has picked up the phone to Maj Mittendorfer

49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Petar Verbic answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief