Slobodan Simović

Central Defender - Radnicki 1923
31 Aug 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Slobodan Simović

3 Edition

The Radnicki 1923 Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Luka Lijeskić keeps Radnicki 1923 in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Radnicki 1923 — 7.83

1 for Nikola Miličić, marked 7.83, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

A move Ivo Kestler would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ivo Kestler is living that version at Radnicki 1923, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Evandro in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Radnicki 1923 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Radnicki 1923 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Slobodan Simović 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.

Player ratings

Louay Ben Hassine runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Radnicki 1923 share the spoils with Radnicki Nis

A 1‑1 draw with Radnicki Nis leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Market

Radnicki 1923 bring in Ivo Kestler from Arsenal for the long haul

A squad is not eleven players and a wish. Ivo Kestler arrives from Arsenal to make the number up properly, and the value of that will be argued about in March rather than today.

Market

Radnicki 1923 put Bojan Kovačević up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Bojan Kovačević may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Radnicki 1923 Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Evandro in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Radnicki 1923 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Nikola Miličić stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nikola Miličić and Radnicki 1923 agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Luka Lijeskić

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

Evandro runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Nikola Marjanović

“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.

Market

Talks stall between Radnicki 1923 and Slobodan Simović

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market

61 months and counting on Luka Lijeskić

Still no offer on the table, and Luka Lijeskić’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Player ratings

Semir Alić shuts the door

Defensive actions: 15, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

Radnicki 1923 pick somebody else ahead of Bojan Kovačević

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief