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ramsej84 wrote:What do you think about halilovic? I think he is a bright future... Even Kramaric... Where does he play?

Kovač has decided to call 7-8 new young players who play either in Croatian league or for big clubs outside. Branimir Hrgota has been called to play for Sweden which is really bad since we really lack wingers all the time.

Time to switch generation and it's great time for transition.

Halilović is very, very talented player, that's why Barcelona decided to buy him. Rumors said last year that Dinamo rejected 15 mil. € from Tottenham, but sold Alen for only 2.5 mil. €. Of course, clauses are installed in Barca deal and that could eventually move up to 20 mil. € according to Croatian media.

We took him because he could have played for BiH national team since his father is Bosniak, but Alen wanted to play only for Croatia.
He is our future, still young, barely 18. Wait, I think he is still 17. You can see what's happening around this guy. In Barcelona they are very impressed with Alen's talent and what he's shown so far.


About Andrej Kramarić... Fantastic young striker who can also perform as left winger(moves into the channels, comes deep to get the ball and move forward, a lot present in creation of attacking actions). Currently he plays for NK Rijeka, but he is product of Dinamo Zagreb football school and born Zagreb boy.
Andrej never got a real chance in the last 3-4 years in Dinamo even though he is the best scorer all time in Dinamo youth categories and named as a great talent. Moved to Rijeka last season where he showed fantastic performances, skills and born goal-instinct. I expect great things from Andrej in near future. If he continues with football development he can make a great transfer one day.

There is also Robert Murić(the boy was linked with Bayern some 7-8 months) who has moved to Ajax this summer after many problems with well-known Dinamo alfa&omega Zdravko Mamić, where Robert's family and himself succeeded to terminate youth contract and Fifa approved his move to Amsterdam. This guy is just starting his professional career. Frank de Boer is delighted to have this guy and he's expecting great entertainmine

Kovačić(Inter), Halilović(Barcelona), Kramarić(Rijeka), Vrsaljko(Genoa), Rebić(RB Leipzig), Brozović(Dinamo), H. Milić(Rostov), Murić(Ajax), Čop(Dinamo), Pašalić(Chelsea; on loan at Elche), Pjaca(Dinamo), Čop(Dinamo).

The latter one has recently shown awesome football in Dinamo shirt and he's becoming a fantastic poacher. This season no. 1 name at Dinamo.

Badelj also moved from sick HSV where he lost 2 great years of his career. His stagnation was also minus to Croatia.

But the most important thing is how to make Croatian game improved after many, many years of nothing. Modrić, Rakitić and Kovačić - one big nothing. In club level you would see great things, but together in one team as I said before.

Somehow I think Croatian players are slow, I don't know why. But I would make of them horses after strong fitness. I want Croatia to see something like Dortmund or Schmidt's Salzburg rather than something else. At least defensive beast ala Simeone's Atletico. We don't know how to get closer to any of the mentioned styles and philosophies.

Balkan mentality...

Tell me, what you Maltese expect when you play football? When you're sucha small country and almost always lose matches, could be well-known: "It's important to participate"?

Just to remind you. You ain't that small. You see... Montenegro is a country with 625,266 inhabitants and you have 452,515. Not that big difference, but Montenegro NT play very good football after they've become independent state.

Everyone has heard for Vučinić, Jovetić, Savić, Delibašić.

ramsej84 wrote:No, who is Delibasic?:smile:

Okay, you didn't hear. Doesn't matter, after all he's not that known on continental level.

FCBayernMunchen wrote:The problem is that football here is semi-professional and many children give it up when they are 15-16 because they want to pay more attention to school commitments.

Here we have had a problem with people who left high school in the past to become professional footballers. For instance, Davor Šuker left math gymnasium(at least I've heard but not sure if he ever graduated after 4 grades).

We don't pay attention to school, we prefer more to work everything else than study.

As you can see, Croatia 4.2 mil inhabitants(13 years ago 4.4 mil), but what kind of players we've made in the last 50 years... Even coaches like Zebec and Čajkovski created this Bayern or Tomislav Ivić who worked at Porto in the late 80's.

FCBayernMunchen wrote:there can only be 5 on the pitch at the same time for a given team.

Here goes the same, but now foreigners come can easily come to Croatia if they're coming from the EU country or posessess EU passport. The rest are treated as "Fgn".
But that can only Dinamo make because they're the only team which stand financially fantastic for Croatian football standards, even social. Many Portuguese players including NT goalkeeper who played recently on the WC has signed for Dinamo and become no. 1 GK.

The rest of the league can only suck and watch in their back, but also Dinamo can suck since the 8x in row Cro champions can't have strong matches. Now only NK Rijeka look as a real opponent because 2 years ago Italian businessman came to Croatia and bought entire club and automatically by doing that, club has solved entire financial minus, organized perfect and clean under the private command unlike the many other clubs which are led by very suspicious people, criminals, local sheriffs(local individuals in every town who have all kind of links in society, don't know anything about football but don't mind to get rich from it), etc.

At least Croatian league has become more interested after they had finally changed competition format in league 10 where one club directly gets relegated to 2nd divison and the 2nd from the bottom plays 2 play-off matches with the club in 2nd division to stay in the league. This should have been created some 13 years ago and we would probably have had better financial situation in the clubs, stronger matches and better chance for our talents to prove themselves.