Marked for Dragan Kokanović
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Squad17 May 2027
Denis Prendi 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 dugout17 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Clément Lhernault, and the manager let it.
The dugout17 May 2027
Lazar Ranđelović has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Vojvodina 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.
The dugout17 May 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market17 May 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Vojvodina know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout17 May 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Vojvodina, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Triumph
Market1 Feb 2027
Kufre Eta 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 The request is on a desk at Vojvodina, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Dragan Kokanović: 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.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Vojvodina close the window on a squad of their own making
1 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Market1 Feb 2027
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
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.
Match30 Jan 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Stefan Mitrović. 1‑0 against Cukaricki, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Vojvodina can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Market1 Feb 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Vojvodina will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Marked 7.96 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Vojvodina had the best player on the pitch.
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Market28 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
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.
Match26 Dec 2026
Miljan Škrbić scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Partizan, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Dejan Zukić reaches 200 appearances
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Loan watch28 Dec 2026
19 appearances away from home and 12 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
The dugout28 Dec 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 1‑3 Lazar Djuricic left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Lazar Nikolić
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Vasilije Novičić 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Aleksa Vukanović is on it.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Slobodan Medojević and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I watch every Vojvodina game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Jedinstvo Ub runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Vasilije Novičić 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Aleksa Vukanović is on it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Slobodan Medojević trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Novi Pazar next, and one man in the Vojvodina dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Dragan Rosić talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Vojvodina know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
13 appearances at Kabel and the goals keep coming. Vojvodina are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Squad19 Oct 2026
At 18 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Three points for Vojvodina, 2‑0 the final word against Napredak in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A mark of 7.92, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I watch every Vojvodina game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Jedinstvo Ub runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad19 Oct 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 Vojvodina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Lazar Djuricic kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dragan Kokanović, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
Radnicki Nis next, and one man in the Vojvodina dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Market7 Sep 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Vojvodina close the window on a squad of their own making
17 in and 7 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad7 Sep 2026
9 new faces, and Vojvodina are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Miljan Škrbić makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Đorđe Crnomarković is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Slobodan Medojević is on it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Lucas Barros moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Vojvodina than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Vasilije Novičić’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Vojvodina needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market7 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nardin Mulahusejnović’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.