Rijeka has a similar sports policy every year. They don't have the money like Dinamo, Hajduk or Osijek have, to pay transfer fees of more than 300k euros or to bind leading players with lucrative contracts (which would be 500k + euros by Croatian league standards) for a longer period of time.
Therefore, they have two options left: a) to sign younger, unproven free agents or b) to sign proven national team players, but those who are in decline, reconvalescent or simply looking for minutes before a big national team competition. In particular, Rijeka revived Josip Drmić, who scored a lot of goals in last 1.5 year. Most of his contract was paid by Norwich, its owner. Now, as a free agent, he signed for Dinamo, for big money, and is on the radar of the Swiss national team.
Robert Murić is a slightly different example, he went abroad early, failed, and eventually returned to the HNL, he got a chance in Rijeka. He has now been sold to Turkey.
So, we can say that Rijeka is an eco-friendly club, which recycles players.
The series of recycled players now either returned from loan to their clubs or became free agents or were sold.
A new recycling project will now be launched.
The first is Mario Vrančić, a player who came on the same principle as Drmić, on loan from Stoke City.
Rijeka also signed the Spaniard who previously sought football luck in Bulgaria, Pablo Alvarez from Cherno More.
They will now bring 2-3 more players prior to Djurgarden, and then another 4-5 players in the end of August, when they see how narrow their roster is
Currently, Rijeka's biggest problem is the coach. The previous coach was offensively oriented, but of very modest competitiveness - Goran Tomić. And he left the club. So, slub is coached by two unexperienced coaches, Fausto Budicin and Dragan Tadić.
I think that Rijeka should play more defensive, stronger, more tactically responsible football. I hope that he will persuade Matjaž Kek, the selector of the Slovenian national team. He will just drop out of the League of Nations
And he completly fits Rijeka's DNA.