EXCLUSIVE ZDRAVKO MAMIĆ SPEECH AFTER GAME
Dinamo Zagreb general manager Zdravko Mamić looked anything but angry after Dinamo’s exit from European competition Wednesday night- he actually looked more apologetic than anything else. The question now, who will he blame for this golden opportunity missed? He can blame the cold weather. He can blame the coach. Maybe he can even blame the ball boy for not hustling late in the game. But at the end of the day, Mamić (who’s been Dinamo GM since 2003) hasn’t done anything in the seven years he’s been in power that his predecessors haven’t also (not) achieved- to hibernate in Europe. Maybe it’s Mr. Mamić that all Dinamo fans should be blaming, not because of the arrogant and chauvinistic display he puts on, but because he simply can’t cut it as a general manager.
Mamić has made millions in the last five years dealing Luka Modrić, Vedran Ćorluka and Eduardo, to name a few, to some of the largest clubs in Europe. With young, promising talent at his fingertips and a replenishing (sigh) bank account at his disposal, Mamić should have a club like Dinamo in the Europa League Round of 32 every year. Dinamo fans shouldn’t hate him because he’s greedy; they should hate him because he can’t win.
New York Yankee fans didn’t care that George Steinbrenner was a jerk. Why? Because he won.
SLAVEN BILIĆ’ TAKE ON THE DINAMO-PAOK MATCH
Dinamo paid less than a million for Rukavina, so actually he would make a profit on a guy who already failed abroad. The media made it seem like Dinamo paid a fortune for him, which is not a case. Only his wages were pretty high, but the actual transfer fee was 600-700K
Now there are reports Vrsaljko and Kovacic will be sold to a "big English club." I hope they don't go now, they are not ready and it will only hurt Dinamo in the long run
I agree with ziva, I never saw anything special in Rukavina even back at Hajduk. Neither do I see much in Kalinic, he is a decent player but as long as he is at Blackburn he won't do much. I am not really that high on Vukusic either, but he is still only 19 (still misses too many chances for my liking)
thanks….I was told by a hajduk youth team coach ( a guy that i trust when it comes to talent evaluation) that Rukavina was trash when they first purchased him. Same guy told me that Kalinic would be the better of the two players. While Kalinic has not been much in England, I think he is the better player.
RE: "another Mamic magic move looks like."
I believe that's less than what Mamic paid to acquire Rukavina. If so, this is a case of him cutting his losses not a brilliant managerial move.
Ziva, to your credit, you have indeed been outspoken since day one in your criticism of Rukavina. You're the man:)
not to brag…..but, there was a certain someone on this website who said this would be a bad signing from the day one. While there were some uniformed who actually said this guy could no make his way back to the national team. I never liked him from his days at Sibenik, to his do-nothing style at Hajduk and then on to his two-year vacation in Greece.
What a failure…..and this was the first guy the mujo used from the bench in dinamo's must-win game……what a joke.
yeah i think Rukavina to Depor is best for everyone. His wages has caused unrest in the squad.
He's clearly not part of the long term plans. We know that Fatos Beciraj is one striker that's part of the plans. Sylvestr needs to do more. Sivonjic hasn't earned his way back into Dinamo. Dodo needs to go. I donno if Slepicka is gonna be given enough chance in the new year. I'd imagine we'd be signing a striker. Please not another foriegn striker cos Dinamo is supposed to at least nurture a few Croatians. Nothing against the foriegn players thats in the squad. Most are better than anything Croatian that's around, but ideally a new Croatian striker would be nice.
Rukavina apparrently is very close to a transfer to La Liga with Deportivo la Coruna. I don't know how, only one goal since the Villarreal home match, another Mamic magic move looks like. It's only two million but good riddence
He will be Hajduk's "mega-pojacanje" in three years lol
haha always with the Suker 🙂
to je legenda!
nice job with the interviews!
This is an issue I need to find more information about, many thanks for the article.
daj ljudi bez bolje lige necemo nikad osvojit nista.
hajduk -anderlecht game live here
http://veetle.com/index.php/channel/view#4cf8023004cb5
bilic je legenda. pravi dalmatinac.