111 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. NK Domzale lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at NK Domzale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Denis Popović 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Zira have kept their man, and NK Domzale go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; NK Domzale are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Nobody at NK Domzale will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The words a physio says slowly. 26 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at NK Domzale, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Berić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rodina have kept their man, and NK Domzale go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. NK Domzale lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 4 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Antonio Marin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Robert Berić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Tim Matanovič has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means NK Domzale have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Makhachkala have kept their man, and NK Domzale go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. NK Domzale know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
A season-long audition: Rudar Velenje still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are NK Domzale's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.
In brief
MarketThe window shut and Jan Skubic is still in the building
The words a physio says slowly. 41 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. NK Domzale have done the hard part with Rudar Velenje, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Antonio Marin 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Denis Popović 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.
NK Domzale asked and NK Krsko said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Filip Mevlja is on it.
The words a physio says slowly. 48 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Everything agreed with ND Gorica, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
The name of Filip Mevlja has come up in conversations NK Domzale were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Robert Berić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at NK Domzale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
NK Domzale have made the call to NK Krka. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The words a physio says slowly. 58 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Shay Spencer has just signed for NK Domzale, and for once the answer mattered.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Robert Berić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
NK Domzale have made the call to Olimpija Ljubljana. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Shay Spencer arrives at NK Domzale with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
65 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. NK Domzale lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Filip Mevlja had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. NK Domzale had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Antonio Marin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Denis Popović is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
NK Domzale have made the call to DAC Dunajska Streda. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. NK Domzale know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.
72 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. NK Domzale lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The phone has started ringing about Filip Mevlja again, and this time the name on the line is Antofagasta. NK Domzale are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Robert Berić 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.
Gregor Handanovic 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.
Nobody at NK Domzale will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at NK Domzale would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
The words a physio says slowly. 80 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at NK Domzale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Robert Berić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Nobody at NK Domzale will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Position 5 on 24 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.
88 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. NK Domzale lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Alеsandro Nikolov has just signed for NK Domzale, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Berić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. NK Domzale know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
95 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. NK Domzale lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at NK Domzale, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Berić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Filip Mevlja 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Antonio Marin
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Antonio Marin has come out of that comparison in the side, and NK Domzale have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Tomas Elsnik trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
103 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. NK Domzale lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
“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 Domzale can pretend not to have heard.
Antonio Marin 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Robert Berić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nejc Ilicic trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Ante Barisic damages knee ligaments — 111 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 111 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Out, 2‑3 to ND Gorica, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A brace, and Filip Mevlja takes the afternoon — 8.82
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Filip Mevlja provided it, and the 8.82 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at NK Domzale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Berić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 2‑3 Miha Sesko left the room before anybody could ask which.
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Nejc Ilicic and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Robert Berić 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.
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Miha Sesko to a room that had heard them before.
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Nobody at NK Domzale is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Antonio Marin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Berić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Miha Sesko on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Olimpija Ljubljana.
Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, NK Domzale have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. NK Domzale know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
“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 Domzale can pretend not to have heard.
Antonio Marin 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Robert Berić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Four weeks in which nobody in the division did his job better. The award goes on a shelf and the player goes back into the side, which is the order NK Domzale prefer.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager’s verdict
Player ratingsThe cruellest goal, and it is Filip Mevlja's
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Robert Berić 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at NK Domzale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Miha Sesko to a room that had heard them before.
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Position 5, 21 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.43 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Antonio Marin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Berić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Robert Berić. 2‑0 against Rudar Velenje, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Antonio Marin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Robert Berić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
7.70, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. NK Domzale had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Miha Sesko, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. NK Domzale know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
NK Krsko will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. NK Domzale were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at NK Domzale, and it is not being withdrawn.
Two goals and a mark of 9.19 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Berić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at NK Domzale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Robert Berić 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.
Position 5, 12 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Miha Sesko after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. NK Domzale will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
12 points from position 5. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Antonio Marin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Robert Berić 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.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Robert Berić. 1‑0 against NK Celje, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jayden Rus commits to NK Domzale for another 3 years.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Miha Sesko, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason NK Domzale will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Debrecen had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
NK Domzale ran out of time with Koper. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Robert Berić 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.
Luka Sikosek and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Miha Sesko after 0‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager makes an example of Matic Zajc
Player ratingsAntonio Marin beats them one at a time
Player ratingsThe chances came and went for Filip Mevlja
Nejc Cerin had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and NK Krka were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at NK Domzale, and it is not being withdrawn.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason NK Domzale will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Sandi Cerin had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.28 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 3 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Antonio Marin 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.
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑1 against NK Zavrc, and it could have been more.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Luka Sikosek takes the afternoon — 9.34
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Luka Sikosek provided it, and the 9.34 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason NK Domzale will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.26 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at NK Domzale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
MatchRobert Berić among the goals in a wild afternoon
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. NK Domzale will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Andraz Verbic was one of the reasons people came, and $1.6M does not replace that by itself.
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. NK Domzale have paid $730.0K for Antonio Marin, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Olympique Lyonnais is saying, and nobody at NK Domzale is enjoying the guessing.
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around NK Domzale people have started saying his name in the past tense.
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 57 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$730.0K settles it between the clubs for Antonio Marin
Olimpija Ljubljana have accepted the money. What NK Domzale do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
The phone has started ringing about Erik Zajc again, and this time the name on the line is Dinamo Makhachkala. NK Domzale are listening politely and promising nothing.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Porto is saying, and nobody at NK Domzale is enjoying the guessing.
Gregor Handanovic and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
NK Domzale have gone to NK Krsko with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
In brief
SquadWords at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Filip Mevlja had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
The offer from ND Gorica for Tomas Oblak 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.
The deal with Porto is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gregor Handanovic and NK Domzale agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at NK Domzale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Berić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
NK Domzale 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 offer from BATE for Andraz Verbic 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.
Gregor Handanovic 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.
NK Krsko made NK Domzale work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sandi Oblak 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.
NK Domzale have made the call to Shakhtar. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Miha Sesko could afford to be generous.