Milan Simic

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Voždovac U18
6 May 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Milan Simic

104 Edition

The Voždovac Chronicle

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Nenad Kočović says Voždovac 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.

Market

Ognjen Ristić has said yes to Borac Čačak

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Voždovac have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Player ratings

Veljko Prodanić, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.82

A mark of 7.82 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

A falling-out at Voždovac

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

Transfer targets

Too dear: Voždovac walk away from Vahid Gicić

$190.0K was the most the club would pay and TSC were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Voždovac

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad

Bogdan Reichman 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 Lekan Abdulsalam

Voždovac asked and Hearts of Oak said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The terraces

One of their own: Veljko Prodanić

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

In brief