Siebe Schurmans

Right Midfielder - TSC
6 Oct 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Siebe Schurmans

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The TSC Chronicle

6 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Shavy Babicka

Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rilwanu Sarki

47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. TSC lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Saša Jovanović breaks a bone — 17 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

TSC turn it around against OFK Beograd

Going 2 down does something to a side, and what it usually does is finish them. Not here. TSC rebuilt the afternoon goal by goal, and OFK Beograd had no answer to any of it.

Squad

A day Bogdan Petrović will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Market

Darije Markočević agrees terms with Maritzburg United

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around TSC people have started saying his name in the past tense.

The dugout

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Market

Siebe Schurmans asks to leave TSC

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom

TSC to lose Uroš Mihailović for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Uroš Mihailović has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

In brief

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The TSC Chronicle

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rilwanu Sarki

78 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. TSC lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A fracture rules Saša Jovanović out for 49 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason TSC will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The dugout

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Squad

Real improvement from Nikola Simić at TSC

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nikola Simić is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market

Siebe Schurmans 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 TSC can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Saša Jovanović signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Saša Jovanović commits to TSC for another 2 years.

The dugout

When it matters, Prestige Mboungou plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Stefan Mladenović

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Stefan Mladenović, and the manager let it.

Market

TSC and Mihajlo Milosavić 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.

In brief

124 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

11 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

TSC refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 47 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Match

Napredak end the TSC run at 11

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 11 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

The dugout

Nikola Vlahovic keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” TSC may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Bogdan Petrović signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Bogdan Petrović and TSC agree another 4 years.

Squad

Prestige Mboungou 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 TSC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A move Siebe Schurmans would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Siebe Schurmans is living that version at TSC, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Vukan Savićević 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Stanley Nwabali

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Napredak take the points off TSC

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief