The Cukaricki Post
Market18 Jun 2029
Crvena Zvezda come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Cukaricki did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets18 Jun 2029
The paperwork begins on Stefan Ranđelović
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Cukaricki have done the hard part with Javor-Matis, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Đorđe Nikolić 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 Cukaricki this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market18 Jun 2029
Eyes on Brandon Cambridge again
The phone has started ringing about Brandon Cambridge again, and this time the name on the line is Partizan. Cukaricki are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Words at Cukaricki training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Srđan Mijailović 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.
Transfer targets18 Jun 2029
Door shut on Ionut Keseru
Cukaricki asked and Pandurii said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market18 Jun 2029
Still no ink between Cukaricki and Emil Rockov
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Cukaricki, another week without a signature from Emil Rockov.
Market18 Jun 2029
Cukaricki buy the years ahead of Adam Hasani
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Cukaricki are still strangers to each other
5 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.
In brief
- Squad Adam Hasani signs on for more
- The dugout Đorđe Nikolić gets picked when it counts
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Josua Lusamba