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The NK Maribor Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

NK Maribor rebuffed over Nathan Moriah-Welsh

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Mansfield Town have kept their man, and NK Maribor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market17 Aug 2026

NK Maribor say no — this time

The offer from Primorje for Nejc Viher 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.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

An offer of $1.2M for Luka Čadež

NK Maribor have gone to NK Krka 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

NK Maribor sign Faad Sana for $440.0K

The paperwork is done: Faad Sana joins from Mura in a deal worth $440.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Too dear: NK Maribor walk away from Luka Kolar

$640.0K was the most the club would pay and NK Celje were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Match15 Aug 2026

NK Maribor come up short against Olimpija Ljubljana

Olimpija Ljubljana left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A falling-out at NK Maribor

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

Benjamin Tetteh 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Too much change too quickly at NK Maribor

11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Transfer targets A loan move for Facinet Conté is in the works
  • Squad No place for Niko Rak in the new shape
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The NK Maribor Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Not going: Žan Jevšenak stays at NK Maribor

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Dinamo Brest had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on José Marsà

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

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

NK Maribor agree $440.0K for Faad Sana

The clubs have shaken hands with Mura; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Squad10 Aug 2026

6 saves: Ažbe Jug was the team

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.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Up for the corner, and Jean Michaël Seri delivers — 7.47

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Jean Michaël Seri scored, was marked 7.47, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

NK Maribor bid $640.0K for Luka Kolar

The offer went to NK Celje this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

NK Maribor go back to the board over Luka Kolar

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $675.0K — a club that wants Luka Kolar enough to be asked twice.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tio Cipot signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tio Cipot and NK Maribor agree another 4 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A move Niko Rak 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. Niko Rak is living that version at NK Maribor, and it tends to show in the first month.

In brief

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The NK Maribor Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

A brace, and Hilal Soudani takes the afternoon — 9.15

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Hilal Soudani provided it, and the 9.15 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

A brace, and Luka Zahovič takes the afternoon — 8.24

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Luka Zahovič provided it, and the 8.24 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Karol Borys, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.90

A mark of 7.90 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Žan Karničnik signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Žan Karničnik and NK Maribor agree another 3 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Žan Karničnik 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 NK Maribor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match1 Aug 2026

6 goals as NK Maribor and Aluminij go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between NK Maribor and Aluminij, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Match1 Aug 2026

NK Maribor get the job done against Aluminij

A 4‑2 win over Aluminij, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market3 Aug 2026

Dinamo Brest watching Žan Jevšenak

The interest is real enough to have reached print. NK Maribor have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Hilal Soudani 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.

In brief