Daan Verhulst

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6 Jul 2029
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Process

Marked for Daan Verhulst

137 Edition

The Borac Čačak Sentinel

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Every point is an argument now for Borac Čačak

Position 16 and 18 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Only the photograph left for Alex Wojtowicz

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alex Wojtowicz will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Borac Čačak the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Borac Čačak

Nikola Petrić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom

Borac Čačak still without a manager

11 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.

Squad

Kosta Janjić 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.

Market

Still no ink between Borac Čačak and Marko Stojanović

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Borac Čačak, another week without a signature from Marko Stojanović.

The dugout

Aleksandar Janković asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

The Kosta Janjić talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Borac Čačak know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market

Marko Stojanović runs his contract down

5 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Borac Čačak money.

In brief

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98 Edition

The Borac Čačak Sentinel

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Only the photograph left for Milan Jevtović

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Milan Jevtović will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Borac Čačak the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Marko Mandić 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 Borac Čačak can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Dubočica come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Borac Čačak did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Aleksej Vukičević turns down Borac Čačak

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Partizan keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Tempers go at Borac Čačak

Nikola Petrić 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.

Squad

Daan Verhulst arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Daan Verhulst has, at Borac Čačak, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

A row about effort at Borac Čačak

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kosta Janjić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Partizan tell Borac Čačak: Stefan Mladenović 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.

Squad

Home is on Alessandro Rosales's mind

“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; Borac Čačak are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

In brief