“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 The request is on a desk at Voždovac, and it is not being withdrawn.
Ognjen Dimitrić 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.
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Voždovac will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at Voždovac training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikola Janković 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.
Voždovac asked and FCSB said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
A loan enquiry to Dinamo Bucharest: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Voždovac have made the call to Gornik Zabrze. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Nikola Janković 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.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Lazar Stojanović provided it, and the 8.29 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Voždovac this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
3 groups that do not mix, and 2 players belonging to none of them. Nothing here can be fined or dropped, which is why it lasts longer than any row that can.
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Lazar Stojanović in the middle of it, and Mačva Šabac unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
Trayal Kruševac next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Ognjen Dimitrić 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Voždovac training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikola Janković 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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Voždovac, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Dubočica left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Voždovac training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikola Janković 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.
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.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Voždovac are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
8 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Nenad Ilic to a room that had heard them before.
Bogdan Reichman 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.
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Voždovac will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Voždovac lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Miedź Legnica have kept their man, and Voždovac go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Voždovac this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Three points for Voždovac, 2‑0 the final word against Jedinstvo Ub in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Voždovac training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikola Janković 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.
“I watch every Voždovac game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Dinamo Vranje runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
A mark of 7.66, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout14 Sep 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.” Nenad Ilic, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.