Marked for Stefan Jovanović
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match19 Dec 2026
No end in sight to TSC's wait for a win
10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at TSC has to find a result from somewhere.
Market21 Dec 2026
TSC say no — this time
The offer from Botafogo for Bogdan Petrović 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.
Market21 Dec 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 TSC can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at TSC
Luka Capan 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 ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Marked 8.20 — 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Darío Pereira, and the manager let it.
Match19 Dec 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
The name of Stefan Jovanović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. TSC say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Market23 Nov 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for TSC
6 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.
Squad23 Nov 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Marked 8.01 — 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
TSC sign César, one for the future
César is 20, and TSC have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Match21 Nov 2026
It needed Bogdan Petrović to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against OFK Beograd, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Radivoj Bosić 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Nikola Simić has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Nikola Simić keeps the shirt for now, at TSC's convenience rather than his own.
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Steady
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 27 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Defensive actions: 26, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match7 Nov 2026
4 matches without a win for TSC
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around TSC are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Nov 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
The afternoon belonged to Luka Capan
A mark of 7.76, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad9 Nov 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match7 Nov 2026
Point won or two lost for TSC?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Vojvodina? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Stefan Jovanović trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Market2 Nov 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 TSC can pretend not to have heard.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Luka Capan 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 TSC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 9.01 — 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 174% of everything TSC earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bogdan Petrović, and the manager let it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Steady
Market26 Oct 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.
Squad26 Oct 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match24 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for TSC against Javor-Matis
0‑1 to Javor-Matis, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Caio Emerson and TSC agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Bojan Dimoski
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Shots: 10, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A mark of 5.77 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
Nowhere to hide for TSC
0‑3 against Partizan, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market28 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at TSC, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Bogdan Petrović
“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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
Inquest at TSC
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at TSC, and it is a cruel one.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
4.60 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Baptiste Roux knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Baptiste Roux trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at TSC, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for TSC
6 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Mass Sise joins from Javor-Matis in a deal worth $830.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Market31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 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.
Player ratings31 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 8.72 — 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Bogdan Petrović
“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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Honours even between TSC and Napredak
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.