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The Crvena Zvezda Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Bamba Dieng was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 47. 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Matheus is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Matheus: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match19 Aug 2026

Crvena Zvezda through in the cup

A 1‑1 win over Zeleznicar Pancevo, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Crvena Zvezda make their move for George Chiriches

$12.5M on the table at Astra. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market24 Aug 2026

Not going: Mahmudu Bajo stays at Crvena Zvezda

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Siracusa had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market24 Aug 2026

Crvena Zvezda pay Slavia Prague $3.5M for a proper upgrade

Slavia Prague did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $3.5M for Tomáš Chorý, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A move Tomáš Chorý 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. Tomáš Chorý is living that version at Crvena Zvezda, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Door shut on Njegoš Petrović

Crvena Zvezda asked and Vojvodina said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Crvena Zvezda

Marko Arnautović 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.

In brief

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The Crvena Zvezda Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Crvena Zvezda rebuffed over Christos Zafeiris

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

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

The paperwork begins on Tomáš Chorý

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Crvena Zvezda have done the hard part with Slavia Prague, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Market17 Aug 2026

Crvena Zvezda say no — this time

The offer from Nasarawa United for Mahmudu Bajo 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Crvena Zvezda

Miloš Veljković 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Jovan Popović signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jovan Popović and Crvena Zvezda agree another 4 years.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Nemanja Radonjić

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Rade Krunić 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Zbrojovka Brno join the queue for Marius Adamonis

Add another name to the list: Zbrojovka Brno have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Marius Adamonis. The answer from Crvena Zvezda has not changed — yet.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Jovan Popović

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

In brief

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The Crvena Zvezda Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad10 Aug 2026

David Pavelka gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. David Pavelka has just signed for Crvena Zvezda, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Real Madrid tell Crvena Zvezda: Ferland Mendy 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Miloš Veljković stays put

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

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Crvena Zvezda

Marko Arnautović 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 ratings10 Aug 2026

Nemanja Radonjić beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Timi Max Elšnik

“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.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Milos Kostic joins the Crvena Zvezda first team

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

Market10 Aug 2026

Crvena Zvezda promote Petar Markovic from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Petar Markovic 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Nemanja Mitrovic steps up from the Crvena Zvezda academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nemanja Mitrovic has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief

1 Edition

The Crvena Zvezda Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Marko Arnautović runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market3 Aug 2026

Marko Arnautović wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Crvena Zvezda hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Marko Arnautović stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Marko Arnautović and Crvena Zvezda agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Crvena Zvezda

Mirko Ivanić 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Miloš Veljković 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Eyes on Mahmudu Bajo again

The phone has started ringing about Mahmudu Bajo again, and this time the name on the line is Shooting Stars. Crvena Zvezda are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market3 Aug 2026

Crvena Zvezda and Nemanja Radonjić 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

24 months and counting on Mirko Ivanić

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

Squad3 Aug 2026

Crvena Zvezda are still strangers to each other

16 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.

In brief