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Upbeat
Match2 Oct 2027
Cukaricki cannot stop winning4 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marko Docić commits to Cukaricki for another 2 years.
Squad4 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.
Match2 Oct 2027
Radnicki Nis made Cukaricki work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Loan watch4 Oct 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Cukaricki , and 6 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Nemanja Miletić 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.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad13 Sep 2027
The medical room confirms 33 days on the sidelines for Lazar Tufegdžić , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match11 Sep 2027
Javor-Matis made Cukaricki work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lazar Stojanović and Cukaricki agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad13 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Henrique
“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.
Market13 Sep 2027
The name of Srđan Mijailović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Uroš Miladinović has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Cukaricki know, and have known for weeks.
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Crisis
Squad16 Aug 2027
66 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match14 Aug 2027
Partizan left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad16 Aug 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
He is 18, and nobody at Cukaricki signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad16 Aug 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market16 Aug 2027
Jonathan told to find a new club“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Jonathan has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Cukaricki .
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Uneasy
Squad12 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Jonathan
“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.
Market12 Jul 2027
The name of Lazar Tufegdžić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Sambou Sissoko has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
Jonathan The manager makes an example of Jonathan
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Uneasy
Market26 Apr 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad26 Apr 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
The medical room confirms 85 days on the sidelines for Ítalo Pica-Pau , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Milan Pavkov Cukaricki turn down San Jose Earthquakes for Milan Pavkov
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Uneasy
Market22 Mar 2027
Henrique 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 Cukaricki can pretend not to have heard.
Squad22 Mar 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
The medical room confirms 117 days on the sidelines for Miloš Cvetković , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Henrique Henrique hands in a written request
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Uneasy
Squad15 Mar 2027
Milorad Kojić : 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.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad15 Mar 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.
Market15 Mar 2027
The name of Lazar Tufegdžić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
Squad
Jonathan knocks on the manager's door
Squad
Jonathan is out on the grass again
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Crisis
Match13 Feb 2027
No end in sight to Cukaricki 's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Cukaricki has to find a result from somewhere.
Match13 Feb 2027
TSC left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Jonathan
“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.
Jonathan The manager makes an example of Jonathan
Squad15 Feb 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Matúš Macík knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Milan Pavkov 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Steady
Match9 Jan 2027
Still nobody has beaten Cukaricki
The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market11 Jan 2027
The bid was some way short and Cukaricki did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 20 days on the sidelines for Srđan Mijailović , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Agustín Peralta Bauer commits to Cukaricki for another 3 years.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Jonathan 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Matúš Macík lets one through his handsA defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
0-1 to Novi Pazar , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jonathan 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 Cukaricki , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Match3 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Cukaricki
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“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.
Match3 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Cukaricki
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Cukaricki are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
318% of the income goes out in wages at Cukaricki
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Radnicki Nis came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Cukaricki
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 49 days on the sidelines for Godswill Vadze , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jonathan 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.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
Mladost Lucani ended it 1-1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Matúš Macík is the hero from the spotA shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Matúš Macík : 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Market24 Aug 2026
Milan Đoković 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 Cukaricki can pretend not to have heard.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Cukaricki 's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Cukaricki has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Đorđe Nikolić
“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.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Cukaricki , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Sava Čestić finally opens his accountHe wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Cukaricki have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market24 Aug 2026
Cukaricki bring in an old headJonathan is 35 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.