Marked for Mohamed Bob
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
A one-man rearguard from Ivan Guteša
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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Defensive actions: 28, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Almir Lira: 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.” Napredak have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match12 Dec 2026
The run at home goes on for Napredak
11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Defensive actions: 22. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Jovan Zogović at his very best
Marked 9.13. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Napredak.
Match12 Dec 2026
TSC made Napredak work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad14 Dec 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.
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Steady
Match18 Nov 2026
Napredak bow out of the cup
Partizan go through and Napredak go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 Nov 2026
57 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Igor Jeličić 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Napredak get the job done against IMT
A 3‑1 win over IMT, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Jovan Zogović at his very best
Marked 9.01. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Napredak.
Squad23 Nov 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Alyson in the eights
A performance of 8.56 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Andrija Majdevac at his very best
Marked 8.54. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Napredak.
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Steady
Match2 Nov 2026
Napredak up to position 2
24 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 186% of everything Napredak earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Match31 Oct 2026
8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Lazar Sajčić
“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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Defensive actions: 17, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Alfa Baldé
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Too much change too quickly at Napredak
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Napredak training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohamed Bob 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Andrija Majdevac
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Andrija Majdevac has come out of that comparison in the side, and Napredak have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Napredak may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Alfa Baldé, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.63
A mark of 7.63 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
24 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Strahinja Ristić is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A move Mohamed Bob would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Mohamed Bob is living that version at Napredak, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Miloš Tošeski 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Andrija Majdevac. 1‑0 against Radnicki Nis, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Ansu Fati
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Yann Lienard is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Lukás Hrádecký 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Paris Saint-Germain, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lamine Camara, and the manager let it.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“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 Monaco, and 1 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
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Uneasy
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market24 Aug 2026
Mohamed Bob 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 Monaco can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Monaco this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: US Creteil have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Christian Mawissa. The answer from Monaco has not changed — yet.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Monaco training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lukás Hrádecký 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.04, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Wout Faes at his very best
Marked 8.60. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Monaco.
Match22 Aug 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Le Havre AC come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Monaco did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Monaco
Denis Zakaria 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Monaco have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The ground is getting bigger
The plans are signed off at a capacity of 13028. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Nassim Lallemand for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Monaco will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Joan Tincres commits to Monaco for another 5 years.
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Words at Monaco training over how hard people work
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The shop window has Mohamed Bob in it
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Monaco hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lukás Hrádecký and Monaco agree another 1 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Monaco this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Monaco training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lukás Hrádecký 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: AJ Auxerre have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Romaric Etonde. The answer from Monaco has not changed — yet.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Lukás Hrádecký's contract
12 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.