Marked for Evandro
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market22 Feb 2027
The bid was some way short and Radnicki 1923 did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market22 Feb 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Radnicki 1923 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Alfa Baldé: 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.” Radnicki 1923 have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad22 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Radnicki 1923 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mehmed Ćosić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match20 Feb 2027
Zeleznicar Pancevo left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout22 Feb 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.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Filip Maksimovic to a room that had heard them before.
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Uneasy
Market15 Feb 2027
Terms done: Semir Alić is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and OFK Vršac waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Radnicki 1923 is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad15 Feb 2027
The medical room confirms 32 days on the sidelines for Nikola Marjanović, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Slobodan Simović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Besiktas have kept their man, and Radnicki 1923 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces15 Feb 2027
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match13 Feb 2027
It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Match13 Feb 2027
Radnicki 1923 make home a hard place to visit
8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match13 Feb 2027
Partizan made Radnicki 1923 work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
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The dugout
No hiding place for Evandro
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Player ratings
Armando Dobra stands above it all
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Steady
Market1 Feb 2027
Evandro 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 Radnicki 1923, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Radnicki 1923 — 7.79
1 for Nikola Miličić, marked 7.79, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 1 signed and 1 gone
That is the business done at Radnicki 1923 until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Radnicki 1923 had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Dinamo Zagreb, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Match30 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Radnicki 1923's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Radnicki 1923 has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Radnicki 1923 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mehmed Ćosić 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.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces1 Feb 2027
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
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Steady
Market11 Jan 2027
The offer from Radnik Surdulica for Luka Lijeskić 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Radnicki 1923 people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
The deal with Partizan is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Luka Lijeskić and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market11 Jan 2027
The phone has started ringing about Semir Alić again, and this time the name on the line is OFK Vršac. Radnicki 1923 are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Radnicki 1923 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mehmed Ćosić 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.
The dugout11 Jan 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
A point taken on 90 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
The medical room confirms 34 days on the sidelines for Slobodan Simović, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad28 Dec 2026
David Buchta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Radnicki 1923 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mehmed Ćosić 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
Evandro told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Evandro has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Radnicki 1923.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
The afternoon belonged to David Buchta
A mark of 7.98, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Filip Maksimovic on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mohamed Mezghrani, and the manager let it.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Wajdi Sahli beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 35 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market9 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Radnicki 1923 can pretend not to have heard.
Market9 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Radnicki 1923 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad9 Nov 2026
David Buchta 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 Radnicki 1923 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match7 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Evandro 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Radnicki 1923, another week without a signature from Armando Dobra.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Filip Maksimovic left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
Trayal Kruševac ended it 1‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $1.3M sale of Issa Bah
He is going to Vojvodina, the club has $1.3M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Vanja Tomić, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.77
A mark of 7.77 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at PAOK is saying, and nobody at Radnicki 1923 is enjoying the guessing.
Market24 Aug 2026
Vojvodina pay $1.3M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Louay Ben Hassine 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Radnicki 1923 asked and Dubočica said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.