The Cukaricki Post
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms done: Mateo Maravić is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Rostov waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Cukaricki is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad10 Aug 2026
7 saves: Đorđe Nikolić was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market10 Aug 2026
Not going: Emmanuel Dzigbah stays at Cukaricki
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Bendel Insurance had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$170.0K settles it between the clubs for Lazar Balević
Napredak have accepted the money. What Cukaricki do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market10 Aug 2026
Cukaricki pay Javor-Matis $540.0K for a proper upgrade
Javor-Matis did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $540.0K for Dimitrije Stevanović, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Srđan Mijailović signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Srđan Mijailović and Cukaricki agree another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Cukaricki
Srđan Mijailović 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 terraces10 Aug 2026
The town asked, and Cukaricki paid $540.0K
Dimitrije Stevanović was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $540.0K. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Cukaricki rebuffed over Nikola Virijević
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Partizan have kept their man, and Cukaricki go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Match Cukaricki come up short against Crvena Zvezda
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Srđan Mijailović
- Market Stefan Bogdanovic steps up from the Cukaricki academy