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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Primorje
Urban Trobec and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Primorje can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Patrik Mohorović, and the manager let it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Primorje
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mark Strajnar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match28 Nov 2026
Primorje and Mura take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Urban Trobec has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Primorje 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Gregor Handanovic after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Steady
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.23, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Primorje
Macky Bagnack 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Haris Kadrić. 3‑2 against NK Maribor, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.06, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Žan Bešir's mistake decides it
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Primorje needed to.
The dugout23 Nov 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.” Gregor Handanovic, on a 3‑2 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Žan Bešir is still paying for one afternoon at Primorje
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Primorje told Tilen Klemenčič something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Urban Trobec 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Primorje training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Žan Bešir 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tim Kruljac, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
NK Maribor next, and one man in the Primorje dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Ishaq Kayode gets picked when it counts
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 Ishaq Kayode is on it.
Market16 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Sodiq Ismaila signs something — a contract at Primorje or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Mark Gulič has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Mark Gulič has written the date down.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
9 starts and a season average of 6.79. The loan is doing exactly what it was arranged to do.
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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Primorje this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mirko Mutavčić and Primorje agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match7 Nov 2026
0‑2 to Olimpija Ljubljana, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Urban Trobec
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Primorje
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mark Strajnar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Miha Dobnikar gets picked when it counts
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 Miha Dobnikar is on it.
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Uneasy
Match31 Oct 2026
Primorje through in the cup
A 1‑1 win over Aluminij, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Primorje
Macky Bagnack and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.32 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Urban Trobec gets picked when it counts
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 Urban Trobec is on it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Gregor Handanovic after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Squad2 Nov 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Ishaq Kayode 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
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.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Primorje
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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Žan Bešir 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Mark Gulič 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Gregor Handanovic after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
A test against the best for Primorje
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 Aluminij.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Daniel Bameyi
“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.
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Steady
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Žan Bešir 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Haris Kadrić scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Koper, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Mark Strajnar 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Haris Dedić's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 5.04, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Bravo in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Žan Bešir and Primorje agree another 4 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Žan Bešir 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 Primorje this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Top-of-the-table clash for Primorje
Koper next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Primorje are still strangers to each other
6 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.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Koper in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Haris Kadrić has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Primorje that is a harder question to answer.
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Upbeat
Match3 Oct 2026
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Haris Kadrić will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Primorje escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Match5 Oct 2026
Primorje are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 18 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Primorje know it.
Match3 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Primorje do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Primorje
Macky Bagnack and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Haris Kadrić at his very best
Marked 8.47. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Primorje.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Primorje
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Žan Bešir was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match5 Oct 2026
The half-term report on Primorje
Position 2, 18 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad28 Sep 2026
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Primorje
Haris Dedić 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Primorje
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mark Strajnar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“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; Primorje are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Match26 Sep 2026
A point taken on 93 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Match26 Sep 2026
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 4 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Match26 Sep 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Gregor Handanovic chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
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Triumph
Match19 Sep 2026
Primorje make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Primorje have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Haris Dedić 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Radomlje made Primorje work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 8.09 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
NK Domzale next, and one man in the Primorje dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Upbeat
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match14 Sep 2026
13 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Match12 Sep 2026
Primorje cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Primorje asked and Tottenham said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match12 Sep 2026
Three points for Primorje, 1‑0 the final word against Mura in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Primorje training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mark Strajnar 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Mark Strajnar
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Primorje
Tilen Klemenčič and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Haris Kadrić
A mark of 7.62, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Primorje say no — this time
The offer from Bilje for Mark Strajnar 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 16 in, 11 out at Primorje
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 11 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Dušan Ignjatović to NK Domzale has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Primorje with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Piast have kept their man, and Primorje go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mark Strajnar 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mark Gulič 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 Primorje this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Primorje
6 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Upbeat
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. 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.
Market31 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
No thanks: Idrissa Guèye rejects the move
Primorje had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Udinese, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Market31 Aug 2026
Primorje say no — this time
The offer from Minsk for Urban Trobec 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 targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Jablonec have kept their man, and Primorje go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Primorje
Haris Dedić 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over NK Maribor, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Haris Kadrić at his very best
Marked 8.07. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Primorje.
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Upbeat
Match22 Aug 2026
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Haris Kadrić scored in the 88th minute, Olimpija Ljubljana had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Primorje took the lot.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 Primorje, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
Nafta 1903 come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Primorje did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. NK Domzale have kept their man, and Primorje go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The deal with Udinese 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Haris Dedić 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.25 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$1.5M on the table at NK Domzale. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market17 Aug 2026
Primorje say no — this time
The offer from Gzira United for Sodiq Ismaila 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.6M — a club that wants Jan Elsnik enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$700.0K 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Primorje asked and Utrecht said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Haris Dedić 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 Primorje this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match15 Aug 2026
1‑2 to Aluminij, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Urban Trobec has come up in conversations Primorje were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Upbeat
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.74, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Alexander Stožinić had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
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
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $750.9K — a club that wants Luka Kolar enough to be asked twice.
Market10 Aug 2026
The deal that would have taken Daniel Pavlev to Jadran Dekani has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Primorje with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Primorje
Haris Dedić 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Bravo made Primorje work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nejc Skubic 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.
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Uneasy
Match1 Aug 2026
Primorje throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Koper the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Primorje will enjoy reviewing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Patrik Mohorović and Primorje agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tim Kruljac arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Tim Kruljac has, at Primorje, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Ilirija 1911 have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Alexander Stožinić. The answer from Primorje has not changed — yet.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Primorje
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Haris Dedić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Primorje can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.