Otávio

Defensive Midfielder - OFK Beograd
24 Jul 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Otávio

95 Edition

The OFK Beograd Chronicle

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Denis Baumgartner 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 The request is on a desk at OFK Beograd, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Otávio says OFK Beograd went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at OFK Beograd

Miloš Pantović 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.

In brief

Back issues
82 Edition

The OFK Beograd Chronicle

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Elios Minaj 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 The request is on a desk at OFK Beograd, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Otávio keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” OFK Beograd may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Miloš Pantović 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 OFK Beograd this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Marco Underwood 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.

Squad

Janoa Elias stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Janoa Elias and OFK Beograd agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Miloš Pantović linked with a move away

The name of Miloš Pantović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. OFK Beograd say nothing, which says plenty.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Mass Sise’s exile

4 goals in 17 games at Honved — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at OFK Beograd updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Market

Haruya Ide placed on the list

OFK Beograd have made Haruya Ide available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Market

Walter Montoya runs his contract down

6 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs OFK Beograd money.

In brief

27 Edition

The OFK Beograd Chronicle

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Marko Gobeljić 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 OFK Beograd, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tayrell Wouter keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” OFK Beograd may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Aleksa Cvetković

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 25 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Match

No end in sight to OFK Beograd's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at OFK Beograd has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Walter Montoya wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and OFK Beograd know it.

Squad

Tempers go at OFK Beograd

Edmund Addo 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.

Player ratings

Edmund Addo shuts the door

Defensive actions: 21, 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 ratings

Jovan Šljivić runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

No hiding place for Walter Montoya

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Walter Montoya, and the manager let it.

In brief