Luka Babic

Left Wingback - Radnik Surdulica U18
17 Sep 2028
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Marked for Luka Babic

111 Edition

The Radnik Surdulica Courier

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market11 Sep 2028

Vukašin Bogdanović 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 The request is on a desk at Radnik Surdulica, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad11 Sep 2028

21 days out for Luka Babic after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Radnik Surdulica will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Stefan Ilić gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Stefan Ilić has just signed for Radnik Surdulica, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Words exchanged at Radnik Surdulica

Vukašin Bogdanović 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.

The dugout11 Sep 2028

Mlađan Stevanović frozen out at Radnik Surdulica

This is not rotation. Mlađan Stevanović has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Radnik Surdulica is pretending otherwise.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Words at Radnik Surdulica training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sandro Trémoulet 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.

The dugout11 Sep 2028

Luka Zorić knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Luka Zorić trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout11 Sep 2028

When it matters, Stefan Vidaković 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.

Looking ahead11 Sep 2028

Vukašin Bogdanović goes back to face Vojvodina

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Vukašin Bogdanović’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Radnik Surdulica needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

Back issues
110 Edition

The Radnik Surdulica Courier

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad4 Sep 2028

A fracture rules Luka Babic out for 28 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Radnik Surdulica will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market4 Sep 2028

Stefan Vidaković asks to leave Radnik Surdulica

“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 dugout4 Sep 2028

Luka Zorić frozen out at Radnik Surdulica

This is not rotation. Luka Zorić has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Radnik Surdulica is pretending otherwise.

Boardroom4 Sep 2028

Deadline passes with 14 signed and 12 gone

That is the business done at Radnik Surdulica until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Match2 Sep 2028

Still nobody has beaten Radnik Surdulica

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Sandro Trémoulet 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 targets4 Sep 2028

Zenit tell Radnik Surdulica: Dmitry Pestryakov is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match2 Sep 2028

Luka Drobnjak the difference as Radnik Surdulica beat Cukaricki

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Luka Drobnjak. 1‑0 against Cukaricki, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Tom Kljun wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Radnik Surdulica know it.

In brief

109 Edition

The Radnik Surdulica Courier

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad28 Aug 2028

Stefan Ilić damages knee ligaments — 15 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 15 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.

Match23 Aug 2028

The small margins put Radnik Surdulica out

Out, 0‑0 to Mačva Šabac, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad28 Aug 2028

A fracture rules Luka Babic out for 35 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Radnik Surdulica will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market28 Aug 2028

Luka Puzović asks to leave Radnik Surdulica

“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.

Market28 Aug 2028

PAEEK come back empty-handed

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

Market28 Aug 2028

Trayal Kruševac join the queue for Ayouba Kosiah

Add another name to the list: Trayal Kruševac have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ayouba Kosiah. The answer from Radnik Surdulica has not changed — yet.

Squad28 Aug 2028

A row about effort at Radnik Surdulica

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

Transfer targets28 Aug 2028

Hajduk Split tell Radnik Surdulica: Ron Raçi is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match26 Aug 2028

Radnik Surdulica get the job done against Jedinstvo Ub

A 2‑1 win over Jedinstvo Ub, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief