Skima Togbe

Defensive Midfielder - Novi Pazar
3 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Skima Togbe

21 Edition

The Novi Pazar Courier

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Novi Pazar's wait for a win

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

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Fejsal Mulić

13 goals and a season average of 7.25 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Player ratings

One of those days for Fejsal Mulić

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.25, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Luka Bijelović

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Zoran Alilović 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.

Match

Fejsal Mulić rescues a point for Novi Pazar

It needed Fejsal Mulić to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Napredak, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

Stefan Stanisavljević gets picked when it counts

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 Stefan Stanisavljević is on it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Skima Togbe

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

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Filip Mitrovic on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Novi Pazar Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words exchanged at Novi Pazar

Abdulsamed Abdullahi 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Mihajlo Petković

“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

Too much change too quickly at Novi Pazar

10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad

Fejsal Mulić named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Fejsal Mulić has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

The dugout

Vieri Kotzebue gets picked when it counts

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 Vieri Kotzebue is on it.

Market

The Luka Bijelović talk will not go away

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

In brief

5 Edition

The Novi Pazar Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Both of them Fejsal Mulić's — 8.90

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.90, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Novi Pazar turn down Mladost Lucani for Abdulsamed Abdullahi

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Pavlos Pantelidis rejects the move

Novi Pazar had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Panathinaikos, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Transfer targets

Novi Pazar rebuffed over Zakka John

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Spartak Subotica have kept their man, and Novi Pazar go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Novi Pazar see off Mladost Lucani

Three points for Novi Pazar, 2‑0 the final word against Mladost Lucani in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Transfer targets

Novi Pazar try to borrow Étienne Camara

Panathinaikos have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Filip Mitrovic kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Skima Togbe

“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.

Player ratings

Luka Bijelović runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief