Marked for Andrej Vuletić
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match24 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Ušće do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Ušće
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Milan Kolarević was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
David Đokić 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Ušće rescue it on 95 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 95. Grafičar had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Match24 Oct 2026
It needed Aleksa Mitić to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Grafičar, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Ušće will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match29 Aug 2026
A hiding for Ušće
Beaten 0‑3 by Loznica, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Ušće
6 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 targets31 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Ušće
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrej Vuletić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
Inquest at Ušće
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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
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 Mateja Vukomanović is on it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Ušće
Bogdan Sergej and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
Ušće out of the cup
Crvena Zvezda ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Mateja Vukomanović did not need any: 8.01, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Ušće's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ušće has to find a result from somewhere.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Ušće asked and OFK Beograd said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match22 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Andrej Vuletić 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.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Andrija Savić 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. Andrija Savić is living that version at Ušće, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: OFK Beograd keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
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.
Match15 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Ušće against Voždovac
1‑2 to Voždovac, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ušće
Aleksa Adamović 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
7 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market10 Aug 2026
As if he never left: Stefan Petrenj returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Stefan Petrenj is a Ušće player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Aleksa Adamović and Ušće agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Partizan have kept their man, and Ušće go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Ušće
Aleksa Adamović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Djordje Mitrovic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Strahinja Rajkovic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match8 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
In brief
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Squad
A row about effort at Ušće
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Player ratings
Milan Kolarević runs at them all day
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict