The OFK Beograd Chronicle
Squad7 Jun 2027
Saša Marković damages knee ligaments — 123 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 123 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market7 Jun 2027
Darko Gojković hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what OFK Beograd can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Door shut on Uroš Čejić
OFK Beograd asked and Spartak Subotica said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
OFK Beograd bid $160.0K for Abdul Razak Yusif
The offer went to Zeleznicar Pancevo this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Tempers go at OFK Beograd
Balša Popović 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A row about effort at OFK Beograd
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Edmund Addo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
Tayrell Wouter gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Vojislav Jokić slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Vojislav Jokić is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
Aleksej Vukičević knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at OFK Beograd, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Boardroom Open for business: OFK Beograd enter the window
- The dugout A door opens for Zarija Lambulić
- The dugout The manager comes out for Bradley Besnard