Iván Pérez

Central Midfielder - Crvena Zvezda
15 Apr 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Iván Pérez

29 Edition

The Crvena Zvezda Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Crvena Zvezda refuse to drop out of the race

Position 1, 66 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad

Ivan Guteša: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Crvena Zvezda have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Timi Max Elšnik wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Crvena Zvezda hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Market

Urawa Reds join the queue for Magnus Sjøeng

Add another name to the list: Urawa Reds have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Magnus Sjøeng. The answer from Crvena Zvezda has not changed — yet.

Squad

Tempers go at Crvena Zvezda

Miloš Veljković was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Nemanja Radonjić runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

IMT take the points off Crvena Zvezda

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

No hiding place for Răzvan Sava

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Răzvan Sava, and the manager let it.

Squad

Iván Pérez signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Iván Pérez and Crvena Zvezda agree another 1 years.

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The Crvena Zvezda Herald

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

The run at home goes on for Crvena Zvezda

16 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Player ratings

A brace, and Marko Arnautović takes the afternoon — 8.42

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Marko Arnautović provided it, and the 8.42 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Crvena Zvezda say no — this time

The offer from Radnicki Nis for Ivan Guteša was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Match

Whatever happens, Crvena Zvezda do not lose

8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Market

Matheus wants more than Crvena Zvezda are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Miloš Veljković falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Mohamed Abo Fani was immovable

21 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Market

Isloch join the queue for Mahmudu Bajo

Add another name to the list: Isloch have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mahmudu Bajo. The answer from Crvena Zvezda has not changed — yet.

Match

Crvena Zvezda see off Zeleznicar Pancevo

Three points for Crvena Zvezda, 2‑0 the final word against Zeleznicar Pancevo in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

11 Edition

The Crvena Zvezda Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Crvena Zvezda cannot stop winning

9 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nemanja Radonjić

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Crvena Zvezda

Miloš Veljković was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

A move Wessel Kooy would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Wessel Kooy is living that version at Crvena Zvezda, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match

Nemanja Radonjić sends Crvena Zvezda past Napredak

It finished 2‑0, and it was Nemanja Radonjić’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Crvena Zvezda.

Match

Napredak blown away early

There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Napredak tried to reorganise, Crvena Zvezda did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.

Player ratings

Timi Max Elšnik in the eights

A performance of 8.27 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Wessel Kooy stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Wessel Kooy and Crvena Zvezda agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Aleksandar Katai gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

2 Edition

The Crvena Zvezda Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Cukaricki come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Crvena Zvezda did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Matheus raises the bar for Crvena Zvezda

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Crvena Zvezda heard it as anything else.

Squad

Miloš Veljković stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Miloš Veljković and Crvena Zvezda agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Crvena Zvezda

Miloš Veljković was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Iván Pérez gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Iván Pérez has just signed for Crvena Zvezda, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Words at Crvena Zvezda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohamed Abo Fani is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nemanja Radonjić

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

The clock runs on Rade Krunić's contract

24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Market

Cukaricki are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Crvena Zvezda will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief