Marked for Abdulsamed Abdullahi
From our football correspondent
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Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from Ušće for Abdulsamed Abdullahi was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.13 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Besiktas, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Željko Samčović 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Novi Pazar asked and Lokomotiv Moscow 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 terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Vieri Kotzebue has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad24 Aug 2026
50 goals for the club, every one of them filed away in the memory of a supporter somewhere.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Back issues
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Zemun out
Out, 0‑2 to Zeleznicar Pancevo, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $28.4K — a club that wants Stefan Ilić enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Novi Pazar, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Taraz have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Marko Stojanović. The answer from Zemun has not changed — yet.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Zemun
Nenad Lukić 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Zemun asked and OFK Beograd 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 dugout24 Aug 2026
Nenad Lukić 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over FAP Priboj, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.15, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Dimitrije Janković, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.23
A mark of 8.23 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Driton Camaj and Novi Pazar agree another 3 years.
Match1 Aug 2026
A 5‑3 win over OFK Beograd, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Luka Bijelović 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Novi Pazar and OFK Beograd, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Dimitrije Janković has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Novi Pazar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Novi Pazar are dealing with a man who wants a different country.