Jovan Trač

Striker - Crvena Zvezda
23 Aug 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Jovan Trač

3 Edition

The Crvena Zvezda Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Tomáš Chorý’s move to Crvena Zvezda collapses on the table

Fee agreed, terms agreed, and a scan that said otherwise. He goes back to Slavia Prague; Crvena Zvezda go back to the market; and both will insist there is no story here.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Jens Petter Hauge

Crvena Zvezda asked and Bodo/Glimt said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Tekstilac Odžaci come back empty-handed

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

Transfer targets

Crvena Zvezda make their move for Mihai Butean

$680.0K on the table at Vojvodina. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Boardroom

Crvena Zvezda go back to the board over Mihai Butean

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $739.4K — a club that wants Mihai Butean enough to be asked twice.

Market

Fehervar join the queue for Mahmudu Bajo

Add another name to the list: Fehervar have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mahmudu Bajo. The answer from Crvena Zvezda has not changed — yet.

Match

Crvena Zvezda come up short against Vojvodina

Vojvodina left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Crvena Zvezda dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

Nenad Simic: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Crvena Zvezda Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Timi Max Elšnik leads the rout of Cukaricki

3‑0, and Timi Max Elšnik took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Crvena Zvezda tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Both of them Timi Max Elšnik's — 7.74

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 7.74, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Loizos Loizou turns Kisvárda down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Transfer targets

An offer of $3.5M for Tomáš Chorý

Crvena Zvezda have gone to Slavia Prague with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Player ratings

Rade Krunić goes up and wins it — 7.72

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.72 for the rest of it.

Transfer targets

Crvena Zvezda rebuffed over Martin Børsheim

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

Squad

Miloš Veljković stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Miloš Veljković and Crvena Zvezda agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Crvena Zvezda

Marko Arnautović 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.

Market

Tekstilac Odžaci join the queue for Jovan Trač

Add another name to the list: Tekstilac Odžaci have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jovan Trač. The answer from Crvena Zvezda has not changed — yet.

In brief