Sergej Jakirović

Report by Mark Walker.

Scotland striker Ollie McVernay will go for tests this week after Hull City manager Sergei Yakirovich revealed he was coughing up blood during their game.

McBurnie ended a 931 days English Premier League goal drought when he netted a penalty kick for his club in their draw against Brentford.

His last goal in English football's top flight came in April 2024 for Sheffield United against Chelsea and he spent the next two seasons at Las Palmas in La Liga and Hull in the Championship.

Rijeka.

It, it, it's, it's very similar to me to that, um, uh, when Jakirović was sacked after the last 9-2 to Bayern.

Yeah.

When they also, I think it was also 4-1 to Slaven, same at home at-

I think Lebois would be the best.

I think you've got, like, you've got the old sheer aggression angle that kind of Jakirovic could do-

Yeah

... or, or one or two others where you're just like, "I'm not a traitor."

I think your fiery continentals are gonna be poor.

Your Arbelaoas-

Sergej Jakirovic.

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Gelhardt, if he starts again, he's 5.1K. Gelhardt got 64 minutes in his start last game.

But, uh, I think the manager mentioned it, Jakirović, that Gelhardt isn't 100% fit.

That's why he only got that many minutes.

Belumi, if he starts, he's a little more fit.

I'm fascinated to see, and I wrote this last week in a bit of a piece of praise for Regan Slater, sort of looking at how impactful he's been and gone from being a lone player, a young lone player, wet behind the ears, to being Adjun's first signing, and we all know how much for, now playing more than 200 games, captaining the team when the recall's not on the pitch.

Having been, this time last year, under Sergey Yakirovich, I think fifth choice by the manager's admission, becoming, by the end of the season, his most valuable player, winning various awards at the end of the season, now a firm fixture in the team, him against Harrison Armstrong on Sunday is going to be a fascinating battle to see who comes out on top, because Harrison Armstrong was on his way out of Everton on deadline day.

Forrest had agreed a £40 million deal.

Everton were going to sell him until the players, the fans, Moyes kicked off and they thought, actually, we better not do that.

Besides all of the tragic history, it's also quite significant that Mostar has quite a lot of exports in terms of sports.

So we have the two Sergeys: Sergej Jakirović, who's actually, uh, the coach of Al-City right now, who's originally from Mostar.

Uh, Zlatko Dalić, the coach of the Croatian national team, is a Mostar native, as well as Sergej Barbarez, the national coach of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a known legend, Vahid Halilhodžić, and Bahtia Sliskovic.

So there's a lot of names roaming from this little place in, in the Herzegovina.