The Zemun Sentinel
Market11 Oct 2032
Joris Kin hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Zemun can pretend not to have heard.
Squad11 Oct 2032
Nenad Perović 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 dugout11 Oct 2032
No hiding place for Vojin Marinković
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vojin Marinković, and the manager let it.
Squad11 Oct 2032
Paulo Júnior wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Zemun can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Boardroom11 Oct 2032
105% of the income goes out in wages at Zemun
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
Squad11 Oct 2032
Eldin Lolić has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Zemun will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Market11 Oct 2032
Zemun and Uroš Vukićević are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad11 Oct 2032
No place for Juhayna in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Zemun are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout11 Oct 2032
Lucas Borg gets picked when it counts
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 Lucas Borg is on it.
In brief
- Market Still no signature from Everton Morelli
- The dugout Paulo Júnior knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Zemun shop where it costs nothing