In the past week, the Croatian Football League (formerly Croatian First Division) has seen two blockbuster deals - Dynamo Meritorious Captain Adami and Ossijek Meritorious Captain Školic, leaving their respective teams to join forces to play in the Chinese Super League. Coupled with Orsic and Ivušic, who moved to Southampton and Paphos respectively, Croatian football has lost a number of top players. Taking advantage of the offseason, Croatia's "Morning News" sorted out and inventoried the transfer of the entire winter window, and selected the "best team for the transfer of Croatian United Winter Window", including some Croatian rising stars.
Ayome
Goalkeeper: Ivušić (Paphos)
At the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Ivušić was selected for the 26-man squad as the "second national gate". But no one expected that the Croatian international, who is worth 5 million euros, would be persuaded by Ivan Mance (Osijek's former sporting director) to play in the unpopular Cyprus league. You know, in the ranking of the UEFA Nations League, the Cyprus Premier League is only in 21st place!
Ivušić
Defenders: Loncar (Szczecin Pogon), Škoric (Cangzhou Lions), Laurison (Brondby), Jolina (Augsburg)
This winter window, Osijek is the team with the most "blood loss". After selling Ivušic, the team also sold Loncar and Školic, of which the transfer fee was only 400,000 euros, and the transaction amount of Školic is not expected to be high.
Shkorich
In contrast, Laurison and Jolina are not so important in their original clubs, the former behind Peric and Shutaro in Dinamo Zagreb, and the latter, as an age-appropriate player in the U21 national youth team, can only play substitutes for Melniak, so before the original contract expires, Hajduk sold him to Augsburg for 650,000 euros.
Jolina
Midfielders: Ademi (Beijing Guoan), Lack (Konya Sport), Klein Heisler (Panathinaikos)
In Dinamo Zagreb, Alijan Adaimi is a god-like being, and from 2010 to 2023, the meritorious captain lifted a total of 21 championship trophies for Dynamo; In the 2016/17 season when he was suspended (banned by UEFA for taking banned drugs), Dynamo lost his "backbone" on multiple fronts.
Nico Lac, who left Croatia United, and Klein Heisler, who left United, joined Konya Sport, a former young captain of Šibenik, and Panathinaikos, who played for many years in Osijek. With both Šibenik and Osijek in financial distress and a rush to get back their funds, the transfer fees for both men are well below their market value.
Klein Heisler
Forwards: Biuk (Los Angeles FC), Berio (Osijek), Orcic (Southampton)
After playing at the World Cup in Qatar, Orsic decided to rush to the top five leagues and eventually joined Premier League side Southampton for a transfer fee of 5.75 million euros. But neither under Jones nor under Celles, the current Croatia international has not been reused and has even been excluded from the squad for a long time.
Orsic
The much-watched young winger Biuk is the second-most expensive Croatian player in this winter window (first is Yuranovic). However, Croatian football is still more skeptical than supportive of his move to the MLS. Instead, the national youth team center forward Beglio chose to join Augsburg in the Bundesliga and has received high attention from national team coach Zlatko Dalić.