Nir David

Right Midfielder - Dinamo Vranje
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154 Edition

The Dinamo Vranje Chronicle

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom9 Jul 2029

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Dinamo Vranje

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market9 Jul 2029

Nabil Bouchentouf puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dinamo Vranje, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout9 Jul 2029

Filip Pajkić frozen out at Dinamo Vranje

This is not rotation. Filip Pajkić has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Dinamo Vranje is pretending otherwise.

Transfer targets9 Jul 2029

The paperwork begins on Joe Wollacott

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Dinamo Vranje have done the hard part with Radnicki Nis, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets9 Jul 2029

Door shut on Nikola Skrobonja

Dinamo Vranje asked and Novi Pazar said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Words at Dinamo Vranje training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Pajkić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom9 Jul 2029

The Dinamo Vranje debt reaches $12.7M

Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Words exchanged at Dinamo Vranje

Kristers Penkevics 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.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Home is on Nir David's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Dinamo Vranje are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

In brief

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153 Edition

The Dinamo Vranje Chronicle

2 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom2 Jul 2029

Dinamo Vranje spell it out for Predrag Matic

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Predrag Matic has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom2 Jul 2029

The Dinamo Vranje board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Squad2 Jul 2029

Tempers go at Dinamo Vranje

Filip Gligorijević 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.

Boardroom2 Jul 2029

The owner puts $98.7K into Dinamo Vranje

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

Transfer targets2 Jul 2029

Door shut on Morgan Bates

Dinamo Vranje asked and Tekstilac Odžaci said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad2 Jul 2029

Words at Dinamo Vranje training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marko Miljković is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad2 Jul 2029

Dinamo Vranje lose Nir David

34 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Transfer targets2 Jul 2029

Dinamo Vranje try to borrow Ognjen Bondžulić

Mladost Lucani 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.

Transfer targets2 Jul 2029

Dinamo Vranje ask about Veljko Đokić

A loan enquiry to Vojvodina: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

137 Edition

The Dinamo Vranje Chronicle

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad12 Mar 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Vukašin Krstić

35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo Vranje lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout12 Mar 2029

Jessy Lobbes says Dinamo Vranje went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

The dugout12 Mar 2029

The manager makes an example of Aleksa Ilić

“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.

Squad12 Mar 2029

A row about effort at Dinamo Vranje

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luka Čakovan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market12 Mar 2029

Dinamo Vranje and Aleksa Ilić are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout12 Mar 2029

A promise honoured at Dinamo Vranje

Something was said to Filip Novaković and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

Squad12 Mar 2029

A falling-out at Dinamo Vranje

Franci Lala and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad12 Mar 2029

Nir David wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Dinamo Vranje can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Market12 Mar 2029

Aleksa Ilić runs his contract down

1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Dinamo Vranje money.

In brief

127 Edition

The Dinamo Vranje Chronicle

1 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad1 Jan 2029

The knee: Vukašin Krstić out for 106 days

106 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dinamo Vranje lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The terraces1 Jan 2029

Supporters organise against the Dinamo Vranje board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Market1 Jan 2029

Filip Pajkić asks to leave Dinamo Vranje

“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.

The dugout1 Jan 2029

Rune Spinnoy keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dinamo Vranje may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match30 Dec 2028

7 unbeaten for Dinamo Vranje

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Dinamo Vranje did not have in the autumn.

Squad1 Jan 2029

Words exchanged at Dinamo Vranje

Filip Gligorijević 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.

Boardroom1 Jan 2029

Wages swallow 183% of the Dinamo Vranje 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.

The dugout1 Jan 2029

Pavle Bekonja 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.

Market1 Jan 2029

Filip Gligorijević is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Dinamo Vranje has been clear about where Filip Gligorijević stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

112 Edition

The Dinamo Vranje Chronicle

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad18 Sep 2028

Filip Gligorijević breaks a bone — 51 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 51 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings18 Sep 2028

Nikola Ninković, 33, rolls back the years — 7.93

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.93 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings18 Sep 2028

Đorđe Crnomarković goes up and wins it — 7.05

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 7.05 for the rest of it.

Match16 Sep 2028

No end in sight to Dinamo Vranje's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dinamo Vranje has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad18 Sep 2028

A falling-out at Dinamo Vranje

Vukašin Krstić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match16 Sep 2028

Dinamo Vranje rescue it on 93 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 93. Smederevo 1924 had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

The dugout18 Sep 2028

The manager makes an example of Milan Bajić

“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.

Squad18 Sep 2028

9 new faces, and Dinamo Vranje are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad18 Sep 2028

The formation has left Nikola Ninković behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Dinamo Vranje will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief

111 Edition

The Dinamo Vranje Chronicle

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces11 Sep 2028

Supporters organise against the Dinamo Vranje board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Filip Gligorijević breaks a bone — 58 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 58 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Tempers go at Dinamo Vranje

Filip Gligorijević 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.

The dugout11 Sep 2028

No hiding place for Pavle Bekonja

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

Squad11 Sep 2028

Luka Milunović stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Luka Milunović and Dinamo Vranje agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Words at Dinamo Vranje training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Čakovan is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market11 Sep 2028

A stepping stone, not a home, for Luka Milunović

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Dinamo Vranje were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

Market11 Sep 2028

Dinamo Vranje sign Nir David, one for the future

Nir David is 18, and Dinamo Vranje have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

The dugout11 Sep 2028

Filip Gligorijević asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief