The Grafičar Chronicle
Squad21 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Grafičar
Miljan Vukadinović 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.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Radnicki Nis tell Grafičar: Dejan Stanivuković 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.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
A loan move for Viktor Stojanović is in the works
Grafičar have made the call to Crvena Zvezda. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Đorđe Ranković
“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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
The formation has left Hugo López behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Grafičar will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
Strahinja Jović has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Strahinja Jović has written the date down.
Market21 Jun 2027
The Luka Nikolić question follows Grafičar around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Luka Nikolić’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market21 Jun 2027
Still no ink between Grafičar and Kacper Ziółkowski
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Grafičar, another week without a signature from Kacper Ziółkowski.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Hugo López remains an outsider
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Grafičar would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
In brief
- Squad Alvin Wallmo is starting to belong
- Match A season winding down at Grafičar
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Veljko Ilić