Simão Pedro

Left Midfielder - Zeleznicar Pancevo
27 Dec 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Simão Pedro

162 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

3 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

At last: Zeleznicar Pancevo win one

10 matches without a win, and then this, against Radnicki Nis. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Transfer targets

$150.0K settles it between the clubs for Skander Tahiri

Spartak Subotica have accepted the money. What Zeleznicar Pancevo do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Boardroom

Zeleznicar Pancevo close the window on a squad of their own making

15 in and 14 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Player ratings

Janko Jevremović runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Kwaku Karikari 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 Zeleznicar Pancevo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Nenad Matic

Zeleznicar Pancevo asked and Vojvodina said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A row about effort at Zeleznicar Pancevo

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

Match

Zeleznicar Pancevo find a way past Radnicki Nis

Radnicki Nis made Zeleznicar Pancevo work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Simão Pedro signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Simão Pedro and Zeleznicar Pancevo agree another 4 years.

In brief

Back issues
161 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

27 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Anger at Zeleznicar Pancevo spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match

10 matches without a win for Zeleznicar Pancevo

The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Zeleznicar Pancevo are no longer polite ones.

Match

The small margins put Zeleznicar Pancevo out

Out, 0‑3 to Crvena Zvezda, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Match

A hiding for Zeleznicar Pancevo

Beaten 0‑3 by Vojvodina, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

The terraces

A cup embarrassment at Crvena Zvezda follows Zeleznicar Pancevo home

0-3. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.

Squad

Bogdan Matijašević stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market

Simão Pedro has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Zeleznicar Pancevo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match

The goals have deserted Zeleznicar Pancevo

5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Zeleznicar Pancevo can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Tempers go at Zeleznicar Pancevo

Kwaku Karikari 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.

In brief

157 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

30 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Zeleznicar Pancevo board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Market

Only the photograph left for Simão Pedro

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Simão Pedro will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zeleznicar Pancevo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

The wait goes on for Zeleznicar Pancevo

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Skander Tahiri

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Zeleznicar Pancevo have done the hard part with Spartak Subotica, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Tempers go at Zeleznicar Pancevo

Kwaku Karikari 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

Late improvement for Kristian Šekularac

At 25 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 4 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Squad

Nenad Stojkovic is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 17 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Lazar Stefanovic wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Zeleznicar Pancevo know it.

Boardroom

Still nobody in the Zeleznicar Pancevo dugout

10 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

In brief

152 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

25 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Yassin Sbai asks to leave Zeleznicar Pancevo

“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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Simão Pedro

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Simão Pedro will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zeleznicar Pancevo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Kristian Šekularac signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kristian Šekularac and Zeleznicar Pancevo agree another 3 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Zeleznicar Pancevo

Kwaku Karikari and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom

Miroslav Lukic will join Zeleznicar Pancevo for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Miroslav Lukic has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Zeleznicar Pancevo have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Squad

A row about effort at Zeleznicar Pancevo

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Vladan Čarapić

Zeleznicar Pancevo asked and Novi Pazar said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Max Metcalfe is in the works

Zeleznicar Pancevo have made the call to Mladost Lucani. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets

Zeleznicar Pancevo ask about Vuk Borović

A loan enquiry to IMT: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

148 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

28 May 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Simão Pedro is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Zeleznicar Pancevo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at Zeleznicar Pancevo

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

Squad

Words at Zeleznicar Pancevo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kwaku Karikari 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.

In brief

144 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Andrei Ciolacu 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 Zeleznicar Pancevo can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Simão Pedro is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Zeleznicar Pancevo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at Zeleznicar Pancevo

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

Squad

Kwaku Karikari 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.

Squad

Stefan Mitrović signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Stefan Mitrović and Zeleznicar Pancevo agree another 4 years.

The dugout

Aleksa Kuljanin 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.

In brief

140 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

2 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Zeleznicar Pancevo spell it out for Marko Mitrovic

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Marko Mitrovic has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Market

Andrei Ciolacu asks to leave Zeleznicar Pancevo

“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.

Market

Simão Pedro is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Zeleznicar Pancevo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at Zeleznicar Pancevo

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

Squad

Idoto Ocheme wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Zeleznicar Pancevo can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad

Simão Pedro 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.

Boardroom

Zeleznicar Pancevo lose 1 sponsors

1 deals ran out and none was renewed. Commercial partners follow a club down the table at almost exactly the speed the table moves.

The dugout

Shay Mannix without the man who signed him

Every squad is half players the manager chose and half players he inherited. Shay Mannix was chosen, the man who chose him has gone, and he starts again from nothing under the next one.

The dugout

A door opens for Nemanja Vidojević

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

137 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The mood at Zeleznicar Pancevo has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Market

Yassin Sbai puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zeleznicar Pancevo, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Uroš Tegeltija: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Zeleznicar Pancevo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

The dugout

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Squad

Kwaku Karikari 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 Zeleznicar Pancevo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Tochukwu Ogbadibo

“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.

Squad

Simão Pedro 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.

Squad

Ognjen Mišić wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Zeleznicar Pancevo will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

The dugout

A door opens for Nemanja Vidojević

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

136 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

5 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Marko Mitrovic has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Zeleznicar Pancevo can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market

Andrei Ciolacu asks to leave Zeleznicar Pancevo

“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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Simão Pedro

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Simão Pedro will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zeleznicar Pancevo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout

Ikenna Nkwazema: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Zeleznicar Pancevo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A falling-out at Zeleznicar Pancevo

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

Squad

Words at Zeleznicar Pancevo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kwaku Karikari 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.

The dugout

Ognjen Mišić gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Kwaku Karikari loses the manager who believed in him

A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Kwaku Karikari's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.

The dugout

The manager makes Nemanja Vidojević a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Zeleznicar Pancevo. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

132 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Zeleznicar Pancevo spell it out for Marko Mitrovic

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Marko Mitrovic has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Match

A hiding for Zeleznicar Pancevo

Beaten 0‑3 by Crvena Zvezda, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Transfer targets

$970.0K settles it between the clubs for Moussa Sissako

Javor-Matis have accepted the money. What Zeleznicar Pancevo do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market

Andrei Ciolacu asks to leave Zeleznicar Pancevo

“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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Simão Pedro

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Simão Pedro will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zeleznicar Pancevo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom

Zeleznicar Pancevo close the window on a squad of their own making

1 in and 5 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

A falling-out at Zeleznicar Pancevo

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

Squad

Abdul Razak Yusif signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Abdul Razak Yusif and Zeleznicar Pancevo agree another 4 years.

Squad

A row about effort at Zeleznicar Pancevo

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

In brief

131 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

29 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Every point is an argument now for Zeleznicar Pancevo

Position 15 and 17 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.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Zeleznicar Pancevo boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Janko Jevremović 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 Zeleznicar Pancevo can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A fracture rules James Kay out for 18 days

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

Transfer targets

Nihad Mujakić is a medical away from Zeleznicar Pancevo

The deal with Partizan is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Words exchanged at Zeleznicar Pancevo

Kwaku Karikari and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Idoto Ocheme wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Zeleznicar Pancevo know it.

Match

Radnicki 1923 take the points off Zeleznicar Pancevo

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Janko Jevremović

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

130 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

22 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Zeleznicar Pancevo end the wait against Mladost Lucani

It had gone 17 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Match

No mercy from Zeleznicar Pancevo

Mladost Lucani will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Zeleznicar Pancevo were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Market

Terms done: Simão Pedro is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Vojvodina waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Zeleznicar Pancevo is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad

3 goals for Moses Nyebe

The match ball belongs to Moses Nyebe, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Squad

James Kay breaks a bone — 25 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

6 saves: Idoto Ocheme was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Moussa Sissako

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Zeleznicar Pancevo have done the hard part with Javor-Matis, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Tempers go at Zeleznicar Pancevo

Kristian Šekularac 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.

Match

6 goals as Zeleznicar Pancevo and Mladost Lucani go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Zeleznicar Pancevo and Mladost Lucani, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

In brief

128 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Zeleznicar Pancevo

16 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

Zeleznicar Pancevo taken apart

1‑4 to Novi Pazar, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Boardroom

Zeleznicar Pancevo put Marko Mitrovic on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Squad

A fracture rules James Kay out for 41 days

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

Market

Andrei Ciolacu 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 Zeleznicar Pancevo can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Nikola Dimitrijević keeps the receipts

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

Transfer targets

Zeleznicar Pancevo make their move for Moussa Sissako

$1.0M on the table at Javor-Matis. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Nemanja Vidojević signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nemanja Vidojević commits to Zeleznicar Pancevo for another 3 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Zeleznicar Pancevo

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

In brief

125 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

18 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

13 matches without a win for Zeleznicar Pancevo

The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Zeleznicar Pancevo are no longer polite ones.

The terraces

Anger at Zeleznicar Pancevo spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad

A fracture rules Marko Grujic out for 16 days

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

Match

Chastening afternoon for Zeleznicar Pancevo

A 0‑3 beating by Radnicki Nis was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market

Yassin Sbai puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zeleznicar Pancevo, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

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Squad

Kwaku Karikari 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 Zeleznicar Pancevo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Clément Lhernault

“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.

Boardroom

Inquest at Zeleznicar Pancevo

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

In brief

122 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

27 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Zeleznicar Pancevo's wait for a win

10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Zeleznicar Pancevo has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A fracture rules Marko Grujic out for 38 days

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

Player ratings

Janko Jevremović runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Zeleznicar Pancevo

Kwaku Karikari 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

Idoto Ocheme wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Zeleznicar Pancevo know it.

Squad

Words at Zeleznicar Pancevo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simão Pedro 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.

The dugout

Zeleznicar Pancevo keep their word to Ognjen Mišić

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Marko Mitrovic chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout

Ikenna Nkwazema gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

119 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

6 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Zeleznicar Pancevo are in real trouble now

Position 14, 11 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market

Clément Lhernault 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 Zeleznicar Pancevo can pretend not to have heard.

Match

No end in sight to Zeleznicar Pancevo's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Zeleznicar Pancevo has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

Janko Jevremović beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Words exchanged at Zeleznicar Pancevo

Kwaku Karikari and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Words at Zeleznicar Pancevo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simão Pedro 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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Marko Mitrovic was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Zeleznicar Pancevo dressing room was either.

Market

Andrei Ciolacu told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Andrei Ciolacu has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Zeleznicar Pancevo.

The dugout

Andrei Ciolacu gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

116 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Zeleznicar Pancevo's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Zeleznicar Pancevo has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A falling-out at Zeleznicar Pancevo

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

Player ratings

Janko Jevremović beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ognjen Mišić

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

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Kwaku Karikari at his very best

Marked 8.25. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Zeleznicar Pancevo.

Player ratings

Moses Nyebe was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.25. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Match

Zeleznicar Pancevo caught on 93 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Radnicki 1923 scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Squad

Words at Zeleznicar Pancevo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simão Pedro 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.

Match

Moses Nyebe rescues a point for Zeleznicar Pancevo

It needed Moses Nyebe to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Radnicki 1923, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

107 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Zeleznicar Pancevo taken apart

0‑3 to Javor-Matis, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad

A fracture rules Vladimir Mitrovic out for 74 days

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

Transfer targets

$970.0K settles it between the clubs for Moussa Sissako

Javor-Matis have accepted the money. What Zeleznicar Pancevo do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Transfer targets

Jovan Popović due for a Zeleznicar Pancevo medical

Everything agreed with Crvena Zvezda, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Simão Pedro is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Tempers go at Zeleznicar Pancevo

Kwaku Karikari 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

A late step up for Mirko Milikić

At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Transfer targets

Zeleznicar Pancevo rebuffed over Jovan Trač

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Crvena Zvezda have kept their man, and Zeleznicar Pancevo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Aleksa Kuljanin

“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.

In brief

103 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Cukaricki come back empty-handed

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

Transfer targets

Vasilije Grbović due for a Zeleznicar Pancevo medical

Everything agreed with OFK Beograd, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Real improvement from Simão Pedro at Zeleznicar Pancevo

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Simão Pedro is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Zeleznicar Pancevo

Kristian Šekularac 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

Late improvement for Mirko Milikić

At 26 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Squad

A row about effort at Zeleznicar Pancevo

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

Transfer targets

Zeleznicar Pancevo rebuffed over Petar Zajc

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FK Senica have kept their man, and Zeleznicar Pancevo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Branislav Ilic steps up from the Zeleznicar Pancevo academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Branislav Ilic has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Dusan Rajkovic steps up from the Zeleznicar Pancevo academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dusan Rajkovic has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief

95 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Idoto Ocheme 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.

Market

Clément Lhernault asks to leave Zeleznicar Pancevo

“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.

Squad

Miloš Kosanović 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 Zeleznicar Pancevo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief