Marked for Stefan Jovanović
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match3 Oct 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 6‑0 against Zeleznicar Pancevo, and it could have been more.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Bogdan Petrović, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 9.89
A mark of 9.89 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.56, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.04, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and TSC know it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at TSC
Ollie O'Neill was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match3 Oct 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about TSC and Zeleznicar Pancevo in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
TSC supporters have found a favourite in Ollie O'Neill
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Ollie O'Neill 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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at TSC training over how hard people work
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The dugout
No hiding place for Milan Radin
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Branko Jovičić
Back issues
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Crisis
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at TSC
Saša Jovanović 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at TSC
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Stefan Jovanović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Veljko Ilic to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Todor Glišović is on it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Milan Radin knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at TSC, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Milan Radin has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Milan Radin keeps the shirt for now, at TSC's convenience rather than his own.
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Steady
Market14 Sep 2026
OFK Beograd come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and TSC did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
No thanks: Joel Roca rejects the move
TSC had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Olympiacos, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Match12 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, TSC do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dynamo Kyiv have kept their man, and TSC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Uros Vlahovic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lazar Ivic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at TSC training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Jovanović 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.
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 2026
TSC say no — this time
The offer from Mladost Lucani for Saša Jovanović 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.
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at TSC
Saša Jovanović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market7 Sep 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. TSC have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match5 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Andrej Todoroski’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to TSC.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 8.09 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Miloš Soprenić obliged against Javor-Matis. 2‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is TSC.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.27 at 19, 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 Legia, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Radnik Surdulica keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at TSC
Slobodan Urošević was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
TSC asked and Napredak 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
He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
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Steady
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.26, and nobody on the pitch better.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Spartak Subotica is saying, and nobody at TSC is enjoying the guessing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at TSC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Onome Onotafe gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Onome Onotafe has just signed for TSC, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. OFK Beograd have kept their man, and TSC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Prestige Mboungou’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to TSC.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
TSC supporters have found a favourite in Bogdan Petrović
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Bogdan Petrović 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.32, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at TSC
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Stefan Jovanović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.