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142 Edition

The Spartak Subotica Post

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Spartak Subotica

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Nemanja Milunović

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nemanja Milunović, and the manager let it.

Squad

Ilija Babić 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.

The dugout

Stefan Tomović gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Stefan Tomović is on it.

The dugout

Uroš Đerić has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Uroš Đerić has written the date down.

The dugout

Johnson Nsumoh asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

Back issues
104 Edition

The Spartak Subotica Post

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

132 days out for Bojan Kovačević after a fracture

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

Squad

Darko Vukašinović 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Stefan Stojanović

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words exchanged at Spartak Subotica

Caju 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.

Squad

A late step up for Lincoln

At 27 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Spartak Subotica

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.

Match

Aleksandar Đukanović’s goal not enough for Spartak Subotica

Aleksandar Đukanović scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to OFK Beograd, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Market

Sasa Vlahovic steps up from the Spartak Subotica academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sasa Vlahovic has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Spartak Subotica promote Dejan Simic from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dejan Simic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief