Marked for Darije Markočević
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
“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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.34 for the rest of it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Mehmed Ćosić 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Mateja Premović
“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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
Miloš Mladenović: 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Evandro 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Partizan left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Darije Markočević 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.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
He is 14, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Srđan Grabež 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Crvena Zvezda left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Radnicki 1923 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Darije Markočević 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.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, Radnicki 1923 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.
Squad21 Sep 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 Radnicki 1923 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Radnicki 1923 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Darije Markočević 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Srđan Grabež
A mark of 7.34, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikola Miličić
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Radnicki 1923 lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market14 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Miloš Mladenović to Zeleznicar Pancevo has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Radnicki 1923 with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Match12 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, Radnicki 1923 do not lose
6 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Three points for Radnicki 1923, 2‑1 the final word against TSC in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.12 — 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Darije Markočević 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bojan Kovačević, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
David Đokić 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.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
Nikola Miličić damages knee ligaments — 31 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 31 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.55, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market31 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Mehmed Ćosić 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Darije Markočević 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
A season-long audition: Mladost Lucani still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Radnicki 1923's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikola Miličić
39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Radnicki 1923 lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match19 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Napredak, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Evandro 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Semir Alić
At 22 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Mehmed Ćosić 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
7.85, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Radnicki 1923 had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sasa Djuricic and Radnicki 1923 agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.