Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason BSK Bijelo Brdo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Marked 8.03. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at BSK Bijelo Brdo.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Tomislav Stanisic, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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.
Hrvace next, and one man in the BSK Bijelo Brdo dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what BSK Bijelo Brdo can pretend not to have heard.
Nenad Nikić 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.
6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Rudes were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Petar Korov. 1‑0 against Rudes, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Róbert Rétyi 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.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Petar Korov and BSK Bijelo Brdo agree another 4 years.
Every club 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 it has been tried.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BSK Bijelo Brdo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Damjan Mugoša 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.
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation BSK Bijelo Brdo are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Marino Kukoč’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and BSK Bijelo Brdo needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Nobody at BSK Bijelo Brdo will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at BSK Bijelo Brdo would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Guilherme has written the date down.
A brace, and Samid Akanni takes the afternoon — 9.33
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Samid Akanni provided it, and the 9.33 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what BSK Bijelo Brdo can pretend not to have heard.
Nenad Nikić 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.
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Marked 8.14 — 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.
Every club 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 it has been tried.
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at BSK Bijelo Brdo can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
In brief
Squad10 new faces, and BSK Bijelo Brdo are still learning each other
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at BSK Bijelo Brdo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Josip Perišić has just signed for BSK Bijelo Brdo, and for once the answer mattered.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Róbert Rétyi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Sep 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 Tomislav Stanisic left the room before anybody could ask which.
He is 19, and nobody at BSK Bijelo Brdo signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Josip Perišić and BSK Bijelo Brdo agree another 4 years.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager makes an example of Luka Krstić