Ivan Stojkovic

Central Defender - Radnicki Nis U18
20 Mar 2029
Tuesday
Process

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98 Edition

The Radnicki Nis Post

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Babacar Mboup sold, and an era ends

$1.7M from Partizan for Babacar Mboup. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.

Market

Franck Kanouté 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 The request is on a desk at Radnicki Nis, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Vojvodina come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Radnicki Nis did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Terms done: Gustavo Miranda is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and IMT waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Radnicki Nis is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

The terraces

Radnicki Nis sell a favourite for $1.7M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Babacar Mboup was one of the reasons people came, and $1.7M does not replace that by itself.

Squad

Radnicki Nis count the cost of losing Aleksa Marković

21 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Transfer targets

Anton Hlushchenko turns down Radnicki Nis

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Shakhtar keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Nikola Vukajlović falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Jan Kuchta

Radnicki Nis asked and Sparta Prague said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

Back issues
86 Edition

The Radnicki Nis Post

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Miloš Spasić 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.

The dugout

Bojan Kovačević is still paying for one afternoon at Radnicki Nis

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout

Marko Mijailović 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 Radnicki Nis, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Franck Kanouté story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Franck Kanouté signs something — a contract at Radnicki Nis or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Squad

Country calls for Alexandr Shestyuk

He goes off to be somebody else’s player for a fortnight. Radnicki Nis lose him for the window and would like him returned in the condition he left.

Squad

Mirko Milikić finally belongs at Radnicki Nis

The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.

In brief