The Dubočica Herald
Market1 Oct 2029
David Axelsson asks to leave Dubočica
“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.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Artem Lovhyn pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Player ratings1 Oct 2029
Nobody could get near Artem Lovhyn
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad1 Oct 2029
A row about effort at Dubočica
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Filip Pajović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match29 Sep 2029
Dubočica come up short against Kabel
Kabel left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout1 Oct 2029
No hiding place for Filip Pajović
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Filip Pajović, and the manager let it.
The dugout1 Oct 2029
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Luka Milenkovic left the room before anybody could ask which.
Boardroom1 Oct 2029
Wages swallow 92% of the Dubočica income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Squad1 Oct 2029
“I want to play”: Juninho speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
In brief
- Squad Akintomide Ayeni is no longer first choice
- The dugout The form table has caught Strahinja Petrovic
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Leonidas Samaris's mistake