From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match6 Nov 2027
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Mladost Lucani are no longer polite ones.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“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.
Brian Micceli Brian Micceli says Mladost Lucani went back on their word
Squad8 Nov 2027
Nemanja Žunić is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.24 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match6 Nov 2027
2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Nemanja Žunić knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mladost Lucani , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Match25 Oct 2027
13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match23 Oct 2027
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Mladost Lucani are no longer polite ones.
Match23 Oct 2027
Radnik Surdulica left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad25 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Brian Micceli , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Ognjen Bondžulić asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Market3 May 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mladost Lucani can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 May 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Mladost Lucani have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad3 May 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Steady
Market5 Apr 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alejo Ayoso and Mladost Lucani agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“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.
Jhonnatha Jhonnatha asks to leave Mladost Lucani
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Steady
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mladost Lucani can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 24 days on the sidelines for Saša Stamenković , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market4 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Mladost Lucani have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match2 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Mladost Lucani 's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mladost Lucani has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for Brian Micceli , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Petar Bojić
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alan Ovelar and Mladost Lucani agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market4 Jan 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Mladost Lucani signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Match2 Jan 2027
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Irfan Hadžić
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Janko Tumbasević will call it something else in private.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Viktoria Plzen will be the happier side with the point.
Match19 Sep 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Radnicki 1923 defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.