Marked for Abdulsamed Abdullahi
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Novi Pazar
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match24 Oct 2026
Chastening afternoon for Novi Pazar
A 0‑3 beating by Galatasaray was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market26 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Novi Pazar can pretend not to have heard.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Novi Pazar may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jovan Manev 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.
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Upbeat
Match19 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Novi Pazar did not have in the autumn.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Željko Samčović
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match19 Sep 2026
MFK Skalica made Novi Pazar work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The team sheet said everything about Nahuel Arias
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Nahuel Arias.
Match19 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Match17 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Triumph
Squad10 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luka Bijelović, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market10 Aug 2026
No place for Bob Omoregbe in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Bob Omoregbe has his answer from Novi Pazar; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad10 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Novi Pazar have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Driton Camaj’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.