The Rudes Chronicle
Squad21 Dec 2026
The knee: Stefan Vukić out for 27 days
27 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Rudes lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match19 Dec 2026
Rudes taken apart
1‑4 to Cibalia, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market21 Dec 2026
Duje Korač 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 The request is on a desk at Rudes, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Cherno Saho, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.67
A mark of 7.67 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Rudes training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adiele Eriugo 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Rudes
Kristijan Lovrić 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.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Nobody left the Rudes dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑4 Vedran Srna left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Noa Skoko left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Noa Skoko will call it something else in private.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Ante Sušak plays
- Squad A day to forget for Karlo Kralj
- Player ratings Ivan Tomečak was unplayable