The Partizan Courier
Squad22 Nov 2027
Karim Konaté is carrying Partizan
30 goals and a season average of 7.89. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match20 Nov 2027
Nobody wants to play Partizan right now
5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
No sign of nerves from Matija Ninić at 21 — 7.69
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Matija Ninić did not need any: 7.69, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Relja Premović says Partizan 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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Karim Konaté 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 Partizan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Harrison Reed 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 terraces22 Nov 2027
The crowd has taken to Karim Konaté
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.
Match20 Nov 2027
Karim Konaté sends Partizan past Javor-Matis
It finished 2‑0, and it was Karim Konaté’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Partizan.
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
Ninety minutes of Iddrisu Baba at his very best
Marked 8.04. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Partizan.
In brief
- The dugout Milan Gacinovic: “That is the standard”
- The dugout Harrison Reed has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Partizan keep their word to Marko Veličković