The TSC Chronicle
Squad7 Sep 2026
Saša Jovanović damages knee ligaments — 36 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 36 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Uerdi Mara turns Metalist down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
TSC close the window on a squad of their own making
21 in and 1 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Olughu Chinemerem turns down TSC
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 unbeaten for TSC
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation TSC did not have in the autumn.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Too dear: TSC walk away from Emmanuel Dzigbah
$130.0K was the most the club would pay and Cukaricki were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Filip Malbašić
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Filip Malbašić, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Andrej Todoroski makes it 200
200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Stefan Jovanović 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.
In brief
- Squad A month that belonged to Bogdan Petrović
- Player ratings Saša Jovanović takes the honours
- The dugout The view from the dugout