Iván More

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Spartak Subotica
27 Dec 2029
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Process

Marked for Iván More

168 Edition

The Spartak Subotica Post

15 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A one-man rearguard from César Lugo

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.

Market

Danijel Kolarić hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Spartak Subotica can pretend not to have heard.

Match

No end in sight to Spartak Subotica's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Spartak Subotica has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at Spartak Subotica

Stefan Tomović 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

Stefan Tomović runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Ilija Babić 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

A masterclass from Uroš Čejić

Marked 8.26 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Iván More dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Match

Honours even between Spartak Subotica and Cukaricki

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

Back issues
167 Edition

The Spartak Subotica Post

8 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Filip Holender hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Spartak Subotica can pretend not to have heard.

Match

5 matches without a win for Spartak Subotica

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Spartak Subotica are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Vladimir Vitorović was immovable

25 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Spartak Subotica

Caju 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

Stefan Tomović 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.

Squad

Iván More 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.

Player ratings

Ilija Babić runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Lincoln

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Lincoln has come out of that comparison in the side, and Spartak Subotica have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Player ratings

Lincoln keeps on missing

Shots: 13, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

In brief

161 Edition

The Spartak Subotica Post

27 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Danijel Kolarić

41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Spartak Subotica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Spartak Subotica bow out of the cup

Napredak go through and Spartak Subotica go home, 1‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Market

Ilija Babić asks to leave Spartak Subotica

“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.

Squad

Carlos Mosquera Marmolejo decides it from twelve yards

1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Stefan Stojanović

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

César Lugo keeps Spartak Subotica in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Spartak Subotica turn down Radnicki Nis for Dario Pavković

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Stefan Tomović in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Spartak Subotica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Radnik Surdulica are about to pick up the phone

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

In brief

129 Edition

The Spartak Subotica Post

15 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

César Lugo damages knee ligaments — 77 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 77 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Siniša Tanjga puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Spartak Subotica, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Spartak Subotica turn down Partizan for Lincoln

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Boardroom

Arif Zeneli has agreed to leave Spartak Subotica for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Nemanja Milunović in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Spartak Subotica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Arif Zeneli is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Spartak Subotica is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Player ratings

Kwaku Osei Bonsu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words at Spartak Subotica training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yuya Asano 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.

Match

Radnik Surdulica take the points off Spartak Subotica

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

128 Edition

The Spartak Subotica Post

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

César Lugo damages knee ligaments — 86 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 86 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

IMT punish Spartak Subotica for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Lincoln will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Spartak Subotica escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Carlos Mosquera Marmolejo

There were 8 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.

Market

Gerónimo Kugler puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Spartak Subotica, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Dario Pavković: 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.” Spartak Subotica have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Iván More stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Iván More and Spartak Subotica agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

Lincoln’s goal not enough for Spartak Subotica

Lincoln scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to IMT, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kwaku Osei Bonsu

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Radnicki Nis watching Jonathan Reyes

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Spartak Subotica have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief

  • Player ratings Danijel Kolarić was on a different afternoon to everybody else
  • Market Javor-Matis are about to pick up the phone
  • Market The Caju talk will not go away
127 Edition

The Spartak Subotica Post

1 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Carlos Mosquera Marmolejo keeps Spartak Subotica in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 14 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

César Lugo damages knee ligaments — 93 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 93 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Spartak Subotica tear Zeleznicar Pancevo apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑1 against Zeleznicar Pancevo, and it could have been more.

Squad

Lincoln takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Market

Dario Pavković asks to leave Spartak Subotica

“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.

Squad

Yuya Asano wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Spartak Subotica know it.

Match

Lincoln among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Lincoln on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Spartak Subotica and Zeleznicar Pancevo.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Lincoln

Marked 9.66 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Iván More in the eights

A performance of 8.93 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

123 Edition

The Spartak Subotica Post

4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A one-man rearguard from César Lugo

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.

Player ratings

Both of them Stefan Tomović's — 10.00

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 10.00, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

No end in sight to Spartak Subotica's wait for a win

8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Spartak Subotica has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Muhamed Bešić signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Muhamed Bešić commits to Spartak Subotica for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Spartak Subotica

Danijel Kolarić 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.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Spartak Subotica and Mladost Lucani in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad

Words at Spartak Subotica training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yuya Asano 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.

Match

Stefan Tomović rescues a point for Spartak Subotica

It needed Stefan Tomović to find the net to bring anything home at all: 3‑3 against Mladost Lucani, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Market

Caju linked with a move away

The name of Caju keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Spartak Subotica say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

121 Edition

The Spartak Subotica Post

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Veljko Bogićević keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Spartak Subotica may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Carlos Mosquera Marmolejo

There were 7 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.

Market

Jonathan Reyes puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Spartak Subotica, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

5 matches without a win for Spartak Subotica

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Spartak Subotica are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Caju in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Spartak Subotica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Spartak Subotica training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Tomović 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.

Match

Novi Pazar take the points off Spartak Subotica

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

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Lincoln

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

Market

Nikola Kuveljić linked with a move away

The name of Nikola Kuveljić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Spartak Subotica say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

120 Edition

The Spartak Subotica Post

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Spartak Subotica let it slip despite Danijel Kolarić

Danijel Kolarić had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Napredak were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Player ratings

A brace, and Danijel Kolarić takes the afternoon — 6.74

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Danijel Kolarić provided it, and the 6.74 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

The wait goes on for Spartak Subotica

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Stefan Tomović in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Spartak Subotica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Iván More 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Stefan Tomović

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.30, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Stefan Tomović is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.30 with 5 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Uroš Čejić 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.

Match

Honours even between Spartak Subotica and Napredak

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

98 Edition

The Cherno More Chronicle

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Cherno More boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Asen Donchev signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Asen Donchev commits to Cherno More for another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Cherno More

Félix Eboa Eboa 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

Words at Cherno More training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Plamen Iliev 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Zhivko Atanasov

“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.

Market

Juan Acosta brings the grey hairs Cherno More lacked

At 34, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

In brief

98 Edition

The Spartak Subotica Post

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Iván More gets the move he always wanted

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

Squad

Tempers go at Spartak Subotica

Muhamed Bešić 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

Words at Spartak Subotica training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Tomović 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.

Market

Carlos Mosquera Marmolejo is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Spartak Subotica has been clear about where Carlos Mosquera Marmolejo stands, which is more than many ever get.

Market

Mladost Lucani expected to open talks for Marin Dulić

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Spartak Subotica will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Squad

When it matters, Stefan Tomović plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

81 Edition

The Cherno More Chronicle

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Iván More says Cherno More went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Asen Donchev in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cherno More this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Plamen Iliev 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.

Squad

Celso Sidney 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.

Market

The Kristian Tomov question follows Cherno More around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kristian Tomov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market

The market said no: Zhivko Atanasov stays put

Cherno More opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Zhivko Atanasov stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.

In brief