Stefan Jovanović

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8 Aug 2027
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Process

Marked for Stefan Jovanović

49 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Mihajlo Milosavić asks to leave TSC

“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.

Market

Vasilije Grbović turns Zhetysu 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.

Transfer targets

TSC bid $1.8M for Babacar Mboup

The offer went to Radnicki Nis this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

A falling-out at TSC

Rodrigão and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Nemanja Krsmanović comes home

The shirt still fits. Nemanja Krsmanović is back at TSC, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Transfer targets

Spartak Subotica tell TSC: Lincoln is not for sale

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

Late improvement for Onome Onotafe

At 27 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Market

Still no ink between TSC and Ollie O'Neill

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at TSC, another week without a signature from Ollie O'Neill.

In brief

Back issues
48 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

TSC turn down Lokomotivi for Vasilije Grbović

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Milan Vidakov is a TSC player

The fee is $1.1M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Radnicki 1923 drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

Words exchanged at TSC

Slobodan Urošević 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Dragan Tegeltija at TSC

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dragan Tegeltija is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Transfer targets

TSC make their move for Darije Markočević

$67.0K on the table at Radnik Surdulica. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

The terraces

The town asked, and TSC paid $1.1M

Milan Vidakov was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $1.1M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.

Transfer targets

Lech tell TSC: Yannick Agnero is not for sale

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.

Squad

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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Aranđel Stojković

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aranđel Stojković, and the manager let it.

In brief

46 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

TSC turn down Partizan for Prestige Mboungou

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

TSC lose Ani Ozoemena

15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Home is on Ani Ozoemena's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; TSC are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Words exchanged at TSC

Ollie O'Neill 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.

Transfer targets

An offer of $67.0K for Darije Markočević

TSC have gone to Radnik Surdulica with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

TSC rebuffed over David Ankeye

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Zeleznicar Pancevo have kept their man, and TSC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

TSC promote Miroslav Lazovic from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Miroslav Lazovic 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.

Market

TSC promote Luka Rajkovic from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luka Rajkovic 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.

Market

One of our own: Stefan Rajkovic joins the TSC first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stefan Rajkovic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

45 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Partizan 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.

Squad

A falling-out at TSC

Ollie O'Neill and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

TSC sign Tom Kljun for $28.0K

The paperwork is done: Tom Kljun joins from Radnik Surdulica in a deal worth $28.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Boardroom

TSC beat the market to Mihai Butean from Vojvodina

Vojvodina will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Mihai Butean has pre-agreed a move to TSC, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Transfer targets

Crvena Zvezda tell TSC: Matija Malekinušić is not for sale

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.

The dugout

Ollie O'Neill 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.

Squad

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.

Transfer targets

TSC try to borrow Rodrigão

Crvena Zvezda have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Market

Still no ink between TSC and Will Evans

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at TSC, another week without a signature from Will Evans.

In brief

43 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at TSC

Rodrigão 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.

Squad

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.

Squad

Milan Radonjic out for 31 days

The medical room confirms 31 days on the sidelines for Milan Radonjic, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout

Aranđel Stojković 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 Aranđel Stojković trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

When it matters, Mihailo Todosijević plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

The manager makes Vukašin Krstić a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at TSC. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

42 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

TSC lose Ani Ozoemena

49 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Words exchanged at TSC

Rodrigão 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.

Squad

Miloš Soprenić stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Miloš Soprenić and TSC agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Will Evans

“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.

Loan watch

Vahid Gicić has seen enough of OFK Beograd

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at TSC, and 8 appearances in 37 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout

Rodrigão 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.

The dugout

Miloš Soprenić has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at TSC will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

The Bogdan Petrović talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. TSC know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

  • Match Continental football is in reach for TSC
  • The dugout A door opens for Ani Ozoemena
40 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Andreja Stojanović keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” TSC may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Rodrigão 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.

Squad

Vasilije Grbović signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vasilije Grbović and TSC agree another 4 years.

Squad

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.

Market

TSC and Ollie O'Neill are talking past each other

“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.

The dugout

Miloš Šatara asks for a word with the manager

“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.

In brief

39 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at TSC

Slobodan Urošević and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mihajlo Milosavić

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mihajlo Milosavić, and the manager let it.

In brief

36 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Aranđel Stojković keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” TSC may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Transfer targets

Josh McDonald 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.

Squad

A falling-out at TSC

Rodrigão and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Andreja Stojanović

“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

No place for Nemanja Jorgić in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Nemanja Jorgić has his answer from TSC; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

34 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Rodrigão says TSC went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Tempers go at TSC

Rodrigão 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.

Squad

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.

Squad

Michal Rosiak wants to go home

“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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Miloš Šatara

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Miloš Šatara, and the manager let it.

Loan watch

Vahid Gicić wants to come home

“I did not go to OFK Beograd to sit and watch. I want to come back to TSC and fight for my place.” 8 appearances in 29 matches say the rest.

The dugout

Vukašin Krstić asks for a word with the manager

“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.

Market

The Bogdan Petrović question follows TSC around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Bogdan Petrović’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

When it matters, Miloš Soprenić plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

  • Match Continental football is in reach for TSC
  • Squad Rodrigão has settled at TSC
33 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Rodrigão 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.

Squad

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.

Squad

TSC are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Market

Still no ink between TSC and Will Evans

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at TSC, another week without a signature from Will Evans.

The dugout

Todor Glišović gets picked when it counts

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 dugout

Miloš Šatara 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.

In brief

31 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Slobodan Urošević 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.

Squad

Words at TSC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigão 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.

Boardroom

TSC beat the market to Tom Kljun from Radnik Surdulica

Radnik Surdulica will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Tom Kljun has pre-agreed a move to TSC, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

The dugout

Ollie O'Neill 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.

Market

Talks stall between TSC and Ollie O'Neill

“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.

The dugout

TSC keep their word to Stefan Jovanović

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief

30 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Todor Glišović keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” TSC may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

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.

Squad

Miloš Soprenić signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Miloš Soprenić commits to TSC for another 4 years.

Squad

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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Miloš Soprenić

“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.

Loan watch

Vahid Gicić counts the days

“I watch every TSC game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at OFK Beograd runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout

Ollie O'Neill asks for a word with the manager

“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.

The dugout

When it matters, Miloš Soprenić plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

The Bogdan Petrović question follows TSC around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Bogdan Petrović’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

25 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

A brace, and Bogdan Petrović takes the afternoon — 8.99

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Bogdan Petrović provided it, and the 8.99 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

11 unbeaten for TSC

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation TSC did not have in the autumn.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Vasilije Grbović

TSC and OFK Beograd have settled on $150.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Squad

A move Michal Rosiak 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. Michal Rosiak is living that version at TSC, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets

Rodrigão is a medical away from TSC

The deal with Crvena Zvezda is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Match

TSC keep winning on the road

5 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

Boardroom

TSC to lose Matija Popović for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Matija Popović has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Words exchanged at TSC

Slobodan Urošević 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.

Transfer targets

Vojvodina tell TSC: Mihai Butean is not for sale

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.

In brief

24 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Whatever happens, TSC do not lose

10 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 ratings

Prestige Mboungou was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $530.0K sale of Nikola Bursać

He is going to IMT, the club has $530.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Squad

A falling-out at TSC

Ollie O'Neill and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Nikola Bursać moves on

IMT pay $530.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

Vukašin Krstić signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vukašin Krstić and TSC agree another 4 years.

Transfer targets

OFK Beograd tell TSC: Vasilije Grbović is not for sale

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.

Boardroom

Nemanja Krsmanović will join TSC for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Nemanja Krsmanović has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means TSC have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Market

TSC promote Slobodan Rajkovic from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Slobodan Rajkovic 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.

In brief

  • Squad Words at TSC training over how hard people work
  • Match Nikola Simić answers Partizan immediately
  • Match After 4 games, TSC finally taste it again
22 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

A brace, and Bogdan Petrović takes the afternoon — 8.98

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Bogdan Petrović provided it, and the 8.98 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

Nobody wants to play TSC right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

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.

Match

TSC find a way past Radnicki 1923

Radnicki 1923 made TSC work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

One of their own: Bogdan Petrović

He is 22 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.

Squad

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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Saša Jovanović

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

A promise honoured at TSC

Something was said to Branko Jovičić and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Veljko Ilic kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief

21 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Prestige Mboungou runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

TSC run riot against Mladost Lucani

4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad

A day Bogdan Petrović will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Saša Jovanović yet — 8.04

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.04 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match

Whatever happens, TSC do not lose

7 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 ratings

Ninety minutes of Bogdan Petrović at his very best

Marked 9.94. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at TSC.

Match

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for TSC. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Match

TSC settle it inside twenty minutes

3 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Mladost Lucani spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.

Squad

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.

In brief

19 Edition

The TSC Chronicle

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ani Ozoemena wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at TSC can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad

Words exchanged at TSC

Aranđel Stojković 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.

Squad

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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Mihajlo Milosavić

“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.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Prestige Mboungou

6 goals and a season average of 7.20 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

The dugout

Veljko Ilic on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Veljko Ilic after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Player ratings

Ollie O'Neill was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 12. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

TSC draw a blank against Novi Pazar

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Novi Pazar defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

The dugout

Miloš Šatara 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.

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Player ratings

Nobody could get near Prestige Mboungou

Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Bogdan Petrović, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.84

A mark of 7.84 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 ratings

Vintage Saša Jovanović — 7.84

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.84, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

A falling-out at TSC

Slobodan Urošević and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Bogdan Petrović

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.

Match

Bogdan Petrović the difference as TSC beat Spartak Subotica

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Bogdan Petrović. 1‑0 against Spartak Subotica, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

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.

The dugout

Stefan Jovanović 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.

The dugout

Veljko Ilic has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Veljko Ilic on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

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16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at TSC

Saša Jovanović 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.

Squad

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.

Player ratings

Ollie O'Neill was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.07. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Milan Dimitrijevic out for 32 days

The medical room confirms 32 days on the sidelines for Milan Dimitrijevic, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout

Milan Radin is still paying for one afternoon at TSC

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Match

TSC and Radnicki Nis take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

Veljko Ilic on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Veljko Ilic after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Nemanja Jorgić

“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 ratings

Milan Radin never got going

4.80 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.

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9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Nikola Simić

There were 13 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Saša Jovanović 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for TSC against Vojvodina

1‑3 to Vojvodina, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Will Evans

“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.

Match

The half-term report on TSC

Position 7, 19 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.

Market

Still no ink between TSC and Ani Ozoemena

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at TSC, another week without a signature from Ani Ozoemena.

The dugout

Veljko Ilic: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Player ratings

Prestige Mboungou was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

Stefan Jovanović is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

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Player ratings

Nobody could get near Prestige Mboungou

Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words exchanged at TSC

Prestige Mboungou 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.

The dugout

Ani Ozoemena 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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

The dugout

Veljko Ilic: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

Todor Glišović gets picked when it counts

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 dugout

Stefan Jovanović 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.

Looking ahead

Bogdan Petrović goes back to face Cukaricki

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Bogdan Petrović’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and TSC needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

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19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Will Evans wins it after the whistle should have gone

91 minutes played. Will Evans found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Radnik Surdulica went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Squad

A falling-out at TSC

Aranđel Stojković and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

TSC see off Radnik Surdulica

Three points for TSC, 1‑0 the final word against Radnik Surdulica in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Saša Jovanović

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Prestige Mboungou stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.44 on the card, and the TSC support went home talking about one name.

The dugout

TSC pick somebody else ahead of Branko Jovičić

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.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Veljko Ilic, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

TSC keep their word to Miloš Šatara

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief

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5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Bogdan Petrović takes the match ball home

4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Match

TSC tear Zeleznicar Pancevo apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 6‑0 against Zeleznicar Pancevo, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

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 ratings

Both of them Prestige Mboungou's — 8.56

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 ratings

Vintage Saša Jovanović — 8.04

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.04, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Ani Ozoemena wants to go home

“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.

Squad

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.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

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 terraces

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

  • Squad Words at TSC training over how hard people work
  • The dugout No hiding place for Milan Radin
  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Branko Jovičić
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Player ratings

Prestige Mboungou beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

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.

Match

Partizan take the points off TSC

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

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 dugout

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 dugout

Milan Kolarević 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.

The dugout

Todor Glišović gets picked when it counts

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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.

In brief

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14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

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 targets

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.

Match

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 ratings

Prestige Mboungou runs at them all day

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 targets

TSC rebuffed over Shola Ogundana

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 dugout

Ollie O'Neill 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.

Market

TSC promote Uros Vlahovic from within

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.

Market

TSC promote Lazar Ivic from within

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.

Squad

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.

In brief

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7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

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.

Boardroom

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.

Squad

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 targets

Viktoria Plzen tell TSC: Alexandr Sojka is not for sale

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.

Market

OFK Beograd watching Andrej Petrović

The interest is real enough to have reached print. TSC have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Match

Andrej Todoroski sends TSC past Mladost Lucani

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 ratings

A masterclass from Andrej Todoroski

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.

In brief

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24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Miloš Soprenić sends TSC through

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.

Market

Andrej Todoroski asks to leave TSC

“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 ratings

Aleksandar Stančić, 19, steals the show — 8.27

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 targets

Kacper Tobiasz due for a TSC medical

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 targets

Lazar Stojanović turns down TSC

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.

Squad

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 ratings

Todor Glišović runs at them all day

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 targets

Door shut on Luka Laban

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 terraces

One of their own: Aleksandar Stančić

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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17 Aug 2026
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Player ratings

Vintage Saša Jovanović — 8.26

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.26, and nobody on the pitch better.

Transfer targets

Nemanja Krsmanović will not be coming to TSC

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.

Squad

Slobodan Urošević 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.

Squad

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 targets

TSC rebuffed over Stefan Despotovski

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.

Match

Prestige Mboungou sends TSC past Spartak Subotica

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 terraces

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 ratings

One of those days for Prestige Mboungou

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.

Squad

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.

In brief