Marked for Dan Cameron
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market22 Jan 2029
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Vojvodina people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Match20 Jan 2029
Whatever happens, Vojvodina do not lose
7 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.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Nardin Mulahusejnović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market22 Jan 2029
Dan Cameron has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Vojvodina they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Words at Vojvodina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Ilić 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 targets22 Jan 2029
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 terraces22 Jan 2029
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Viktor Stojanović has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match20 Jan 2029
Radnicki Nis made Vojvodina work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings22 Jan 2029
Ninety minutes of Bogdan Kostić at his very best
Marked 8.10. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Vojvodina.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market15 Jan 2029
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market15 Jan 2029
The bid was some way short and Vojvodina did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market15 Jan 2029
“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.
Match13 Jan 2029
The drought breaks for Vojvodina
7 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Napredak were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Words exchanged at Vojvodina
Nardin Mulahusejnović 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.
Match13 Jan 2029
Still nobody has beaten Vojvodina
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Words at Vojvodina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Njegoš Petrović 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 ratings15 Jan 2029
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets15 Jan 2029
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cukaricki have kept their man, and Vojvodina go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Uneasy
Player ratings8 Jan 2029
Successful dribbles: 34. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market8 Jan 2029
The bid was some way short and Vojvodina did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match6 Jan 2029
The wait goes on for Vojvodina
7 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.
Market8 Jan 2029
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and IMT waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Vojvodina is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market8 Jan 2029
“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.
The dugout8 Jan 2029
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Squad8 Jan 2029
Nardin Mulahusejnović 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.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Lamfia Dioubaté gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Lamfia Dioubaté has just signed for Vojvodina, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Luka Ilić 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market17 Jul 2028
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Vojvodina have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market17 Jul 2028
The bid was some way short and Vojvodina did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market17 Jul 2028
Dan Cameron 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 Vojvodina can pretend not to have heard.
Squad17 Jul 2028
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Nardin Mulahusejnović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Jul 2028
A row about effort at Vojvodina
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luka Ilić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Mateja Gašić has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Market17 Jul 2028
Add another name to the list: AEL Larisa have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mass Sise. The answer from Vojvodina has not changed — yet.
The dugout17 Jul 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dimitrije Stevanović, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad22 May 2028
104 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Vojvodina lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout22 May 2028
Mass Sise: 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.” Vojvodina have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market22 May 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Vojvodina is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad22 May 2028
Nardin Mulahusejnović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 May 2028
A row about effort at Vojvodina
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luka Ilić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market22 May 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Luka Ilić’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.