The Ušće Herald
Squad25 Jan 2027
98 days out for Tomislav Todorović after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ušće will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Miloš Bakić, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.96
A mark of 7.96 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Oskar Sverrisson says Ušće 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Mateja Vukomanović 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.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Radnicki Nis tell Ušće: Dejan Stanivuković is not for sale
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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Ušće
Aleksej Vukičević and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Ušće count the cost of losing Marko Luković
48 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The terraces25 Jan 2027
The crowd has taken to Dušan Jovanović
At 18 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
Ušće find a way past Dinamo Vranje
Dinamo Vranje made Ušće work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Player ratings Petar Ristić was unplayable
- The dugout The team sheet said everything about Miroljub Kostić
- The dugout Miroslav Jovanovic: “That is the standard”