The Radnik Surdulica Courier
Squad1 Apr 2030
A knee injury of the worst kind for Filip Samurović
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Radnik Surdulica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom1 Apr 2030
Pressure builds in the Radnik Surdulica boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market1 Apr 2030
Only the photograph left for Tom Wingate
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Tom Wingate will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Radnik Surdulica the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad1 Apr 2030
Vukašin Bogdanović in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Radnik Surdulica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Apr 2030
Words at Radnik Surdulica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ange Chiesa 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.
Squad1 Apr 2030
When it matters, Borko Duronjić plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Market Toby Boyata placed on the list
- Boardroom Radnik Surdulica keep producing them