10 Sep 2029
Monday
Process
162 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

3 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

The Napredak deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Facundo Cabral reports back to Cukaricki with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Market

Javor-Matis watching Mateo Maravić

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

Squad

Matija Gočmanac 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

Aleksandar Stančić signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aleksandar Stančić commits to Cukaricki for another 4 years.

Match

Cukaricki and Radnik Surdulica take a point apiece

It finished 2-2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad

Giorgos Naoum 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

Back issues
161 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

27 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cukaricki march on in the cup

Radnik Surdulica are out and Cukaricki go through, 2-1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Squad

Godswill Vadze says Cukaricki 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.

Market

Cukaricki turn down Radnicki Nis for Facundo Cabral

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

Squad

Marko Docić 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

Honours even between Cukaricki and IMT

2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

Giorgos Naoum 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Srđan Mijailović talk will not go away

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

Squad

Aleksandar Stančić finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Cukaricki have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Mass Sise

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

In brief

160 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

20 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Vahid Gicić: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

Cukaricki come up short against Zeleznicar Pancevo

Zeleznicar Pancevo left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Karim Jurjo is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Cukaricki has been clear about where Karim Jurjo stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Karim Jurjo

“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

Stefan Mladenović stays put

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

Market

Radnik Surdulica are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Cukaricki will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

159 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

13 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Karim Jurjo says Cukaricki 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.

Market

Zeleznicar Pancevo come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Cukaricki did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Facundo Cabral has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cukaricki they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Milan Pavkov 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

Cukaricki find a way past Partizan

Partizan made Cukaricki work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Uroš Miladinović 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

Sava Čestić linked with a move away

The name of Sava Čestić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Lazar Mijović has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Lazar Mijović keeps the shirt for now, at Cukaricki's convenience rather than his own.

Market

Cukaricki pick up Giorgos Naoum for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Giorgos Naoum arrives at Cukaricki with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

In brief

158 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

6 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Matija Gočmanac keeps Cukaricki in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 16 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Radnik Surdulica come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Cukaricki did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Halil İbrahim Pehlivan signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Halil İbrahim Pehlivan commits to Cukaricki for another 2 years.

Market

Zeleznicar Pancevo watching Leon Borković

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

Squad

Vojin Serafimović 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

Cukaricki and Crvena Zvezda take a point apiece

It finished 2-2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

157 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

30 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Radnicki 1923 take the points off Cukaricki

Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Matija Gočmanac

“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

Radnicki Nis are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Cukaricki will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

Marko Docić 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 Srđan Mijailović talk will not go away

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

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Lazar Tufegdžić

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

In brief

156 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

23 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Álex Segura hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cukaricki can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Cukaricki tie Luka Rajkovic down

A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.

Match

Cukaricki cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Uroš Miladinović signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Uroš Miladinović commits to Cukaricki for another 5 years.

Market

Petar Lukic comes home

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

Market

Uros Mitrovic comes home

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

Market

Nemanja Lukic comes home

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

Match

Cukaricki find a way past Mladost Lucani

Mladost Lucani made Cukaricki work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Boardroom

Cukaricki board go back on their word

Something was promised, a deadline passed, and it did not arrive. Trust inside a football club is built over years and spent in an afternoon.

In brief

155 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

16 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Godswill Vadze says Cukaricki 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.

Market

Mateo Maravić attracts admirers

The name of Mateo Maravić has come up in conversations Cukaricki were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Joan Hernández stays put

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

Squad

The manager makes an example of Vanja Tomić

“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

Matija Gočmanac 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Lazar Mijović talk will not go away

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

In brief

154 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Srđan Mijailović signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Srđan Mijailović commits to Cukaricki for another 2 years.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Anton Drozd

“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

Napredak are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Cukaricki will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

153 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

2 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

The Javor-Matis deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Mateo Maravić reports back to Cukaricki with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Squad

Srđan Mijailović stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Srđan Mijailović and Cukaricki agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Facundo Cabral has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cukaricki they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Stefan Mladenović 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

The Srđan Mijailović talk will not go away

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

Squad

Anderson Prestes 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

152 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

25 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cukaricki up to position 3

49 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad

Paul Mbong: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Radnik Surdulica come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Cukaricki did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

In brief

151 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

18 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Cukaricki turn down Zeleznicar Pancevo for Godswill Vadze

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

Squad

Cukaricki lose Nenad Babic

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

Squad

The manager makes an example of Halil İbrahim Pehlivan

“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

Karim Jurjo 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

Radnicki Nis expected to open talks for Facundo Cabral

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Cukaricki will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Market

The Lazar Mijović talk will not go away

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

In brief

150 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

11 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Vojin Serafimović signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vojin Serafimović commits to Cukaricki for another 4 years.

Market

Godswill Vadze attracts admirers

The name of Godswill Vadze has come up in conversations Cukaricki were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Anton Drozd

“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

Radnicki Nis expected to open talks for Mateo Maravić

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Cukaricki will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Market

The Milan Pavkov talk will not go away

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

Squad

Halil İbrahim Pehlivan 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

149 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

4 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Facundo Cabral hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cukaricki can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Mateo Maravić attracts admirers

The name of Mateo Maravić has come up in conversations Cukaricki were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Matija Gočmanac

“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

The Srđan Mijailović talk will not go away

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

Squad

Vojin Serafimović 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Srđan Mijailović has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Srđan Mijailović keeps the shirt for now, at Cukaricki's convenience rather than his own.

In brief

148 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

28 May 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Cukaricki are in Europe

Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.

Match

Cukaricki are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 49 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Leon Borković has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cukaricki they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Marko Docić 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

Matija Gočmanac 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Sava Čestić linked with a move away

The name of Sava Čestić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

147 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

21 May 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Dragan Čubra out for 19 days

The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for Dragan Čubra, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Stefan Mladenović

“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

Marko Docić 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

146 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

14 May 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Anton Drozd 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.

Loan watch

Mateo Maravić wants to come home

“I did not go to Paksi to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cukaricki and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 45 matches say the rest.

Market

Milan Pavkov linked with a move away

The name of Milan Pavkov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

145 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

7 May 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Anton Drozd hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cukaricki can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Dragan Čubra

“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

Karim Jurjo 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

144 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cukaricki are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 49 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Leon Borković has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cukaricki they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Lazar Tufegdžić 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.

Loan watch

Vahid Gicić has seen enough of Rubin

“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 Cukaricki, and 11 appearances in 33 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Karim Jurjo 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

Sava Čestić linked with a move away

The name of Sava Čestić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

143 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

23 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Dragan Čubra out for 51 days

The medical room confirms 51 days on the sidelines for Dragan Čubra, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Matija Gočmanac 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

Lazar Tufegdžić 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

142 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Matija Gočmanac: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Anton Drozd 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.

Loan watch

Mateo Maravić wants to come home

“I did not go to Paksi to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cukaricki and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 41 matches say the rest.

Market

Milan Pavkov linked with a move away

The name of Milan Pavkov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

Loan watch

4 goals on loan for Vojin Serafimović

23 appearances at Vojvodina and the goals keep coming. Cukaricki are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

Squad

Vladan Čarapić 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

141 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

9 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Mass Sise: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Srđan Mijailović 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

Matija Gočmanac 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

140 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

2 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cukaricki are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 49 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

Nemanja Miletić says Cukaricki 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.

Market

Leon Borković has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cukaricki they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Srđan Mijailović 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

The armband comes off Lazar Mijović

Cukaricki will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

Squad

Mass Sise 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.

In brief

139 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

26 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Lucas López Iglesias says Cukaricki 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

The manager makes an example of Álex Segura

“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

Lazar Mijović linked with a move away

The name of Lazar Mijović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

138 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

19 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Lazar Stojanović says Cukaricki 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

Karim Jurjo 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.

Loan watch

Mateo Maravić wants to come home

“I did not go to Paksi to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cukaricki and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 37 matches say the rest.

Market

Milan Pavkov linked with a move away

The name of Milan Pavkov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

Market

Anton Drozd placed on the list

Cukaricki have made Anton Drozd available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Loan watch

4 goals on loan for Vojin Serafimović

23 appearances at Vojvodina and the goals keep coming. Cukaricki are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief

137 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Halil İbrahim Pehlivan says Cukaricki 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

Darije Markočević stays put

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

Squad

The manager makes an example of Dragan Čubra

“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.

In brief

136 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

5 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Karim Jurjo asks to leave Cukaricki

“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.

Match

Cukaricki are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 49 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Leon Borković has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cukaricki they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Lazar Mijović stays put

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

Squad

Paul Mbong 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

Lazar Tufegdžić 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

Sava Čestić linked with a move away

The name of Sava Čestić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

Loan watch

Vahid Gicić keeps scoring at Rubin

11 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Loan watch

Vojin Serafimović wants to stay at Vojvodina

“I am playing every week here and I feel like a footballer again.” 23 appearances and 4 goals on loan, and a decision waiting in the summer.

In brief

135 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

26 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Matija Gočmanac 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

Lazar Mijović linked with a move away

The name of Lazar Mijović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Vladan Čarapić 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

134 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

19 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Marko Docić 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.

Loan watch

Mateo Maravić wants to come home

“I did not go to Paksi to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cukaricki and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 33 matches say the rest.

Squad

Matija Gočmanac 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Milan Pavkov linked with a move away

The name of Milan Pavkov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

Market

Anton Drozd placed on the list

Cukaricki have made Anton Drozd available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Loan watch

4 goals on loan for Vojin Serafimović

23 appearances at Vojvodina and the goals keep coming. Cukaricki are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief

133 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Juan Román Gimenez asks to leave Cukaricki

“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.

Squad

Stefan Mladenović: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Eric Bile is carrying Cukaricki

10 goals and a season average of 7.37. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

Cukaricki get the job done against TSC

A 2-1 win over TSC, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Halil İbrahim Pehlivan 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

Srđan Mijailović 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

Srđan Mijailović linked with a move away

The name of Srđan Mijailović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Vanja Tomić

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

Market

The window shut and Paul Mbong is still in the building

Cukaricki spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.

In brief

132 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Anton Drozd asks to leave Cukaricki

“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.

Match

Cukaricki up to position 3

46 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad

Vanja Tomić: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Leon Borković has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cukaricki they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match

Cukaricki find a way past Novi Pazar

Novi Pazar made Cukaricki work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Aleksej Vukičević is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.24 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Lazar Tufegdžić 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

Vladan Čarapić signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vladan Čarapić commits to Cukaricki for another 4 years.

Loan watch

Darije Markočević wants to come home

“I did not go to Puskas Akademia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cukaricki and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 29 matches say the rest.

In brief

131 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

29 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Nemanja Miletić hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cukaricki can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Dragan Čubra: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

A bad afternoon for Cukaricki against Spartak Subotica

3-4 to Spartak Subotica, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Srđan Mijailović 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

Uroš Miladinović is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.36 with 2 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Karim Jurjo 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

130 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

22 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Anton Drozd says Cukaricki 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

Vuk Draškić keeps Cukaricki in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Karim Jurjo left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Karim Jurjo will call it something else in private.

Squad

Lazar Mijović is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.33 with 5 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Loan watch

Mateo Maravić wants to come home

“I did not go to Paksi to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cukaricki and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 29 matches say the rest.

Market

Javor-Matis expected to open talks for Leon Borković

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Cukaricki will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

129 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

15 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Lazar Tufegdžić: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Juan Román Gimenez asks to leave Cukaricki

“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.

Squad

Eric Bile is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.38 with 10 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

A bad afternoon for Cukaricki against Radnicki Nis

1-2 to Radnicki Nis, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Milan Pavkov

“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

Leon Borković attracts admirers

The name of Leon Borković has come up in conversations Cukaricki were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Agustín Peralta Bauer signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Agustín Peralta Bauer commits to Cukaricki for another 3 years.

Market

Facundo Cabral told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Facundo Cabral has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Cukaricki.

Market

Srđan Mijailović linked with a move away

The name of Srđan Mijailović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

  • Boardroom Cukaricki keep producing them
  • The terraces The press cannot get enough of Eric Bile
128 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Vuk Draškić keeps Cukaricki in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Anton Drozd asks to leave Cukaricki

“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.

Match

Cukaricki are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 42 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Match

Cukaricki make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Cukaricki have 3 straight wins of it.

Loan watch

Darije Markočević wants to come home

“I did not go to Puskas Akademia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cukaricki and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 25 matches say the rest.

Squad

Lazar Tufegdžić 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

Eric Bile is carrying Cukaricki

9 goals and a season average of 7.35. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

Cukaricki see off Vojvodina

Three points for Cukaricki, 1-0 the final word against Vojvodina in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

Nemanja Miletić told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Nemanja Miletić has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Cukaricki.

In brief

127 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

1 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Slobodan Tedić says Cukaricki 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.

Market

Godswill Vadze hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cukaricki can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Marko Docić

“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

Cukaricki get the job done against Napredak

A 1-0 win over Napredak, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Srđan Mijailović loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Srđan Mijailović. Cukaricki will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

Market

The Lazar Tufegdžić talk will not go away

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

In brief

126 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

25 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cukaricki tear Javor-Matis apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3-0 against Javor-Matis, and it could have been more.

Squad

Vuk Draškić keeps Cukaricki in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Marko Docić left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Marko Docić will call it something else in private.

Loan watch

Mateo Maravić wants to come home

“I did not go to Paksi to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cukaricki and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 25 matches say the rest.

Squad

Lazar Stojanović 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

Uroš Miladinović is carrying Cukaricki

2 goals and a season average of 7.32. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

In brief

125 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

18 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Joan Hernández says Cukaricki 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

Aleksej Vukičević signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aleksej Vukičević commits to Cukaricki for another 5 years.

Squad

Matija Gočmanac 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.

In brief

124 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

11 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Milan Pavkov 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

Eric Bile is carrying Cukaricki

9 goals and a season average of 7.35. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Loan watch

Darije Markočević has seen enough of Puskas Akademia

“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 Cukaricki, and 3 appearances in 21 say he has earned the hearing.

Match

Cukaricki share the spoils with IMT

A 1-1 draw with IMT leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Milan Pavkov

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

Market

Sava Čestić linked with a move away

The name of Sava Čestić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

123 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cukaricki tear Zeleznicar Pancevo apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4-0 against Zeleznicar Pancevo, and it could have been more.

Squad

Leon Borković says Cukaricki 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

Srđan Mijailović signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Srđan Mijailović commits to Cukaricki for another 2 years.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Anton Drozd

“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

Eric Bile is carrying Cukaricki

8 goals and a season average of 7.31. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Market

The Lazar Tufegdžić talk will not go away

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

In brief

122 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

27 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cukaricki bow out of the cup

TSC go through and Cukaricki go home, 0-0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad

Eric Bile takes the match ball home

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

Match

No end in sight to Cukaricki's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Cukaricki has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

A bad afternoon for Cukaricki against Partizan

4-5 to Partizan, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Lazar Tufegdžić 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

Eric Bile is carrying Cukaricki

7 goals and a season average of 7.25. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Costly mistake from Vuk Draškić

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Vuk Draškić knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

Loan watch

Mateo Maravić has seen enough of Paksi

“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 Cukaricki, and 3 appearances in 21 say he has earned the hearing.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Lazar Tufegdžić

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

In brief

121 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Mass Sise hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cukaricki can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Vanja Tomić says Cukaricki 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

The manager makes an example of Marko Docić

“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

Crvena Zvezda take the points off Cukaricki

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

Loan watch

Vahid Gicić wants to come home

“I did not go to Rubin to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cukaricki and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 10 matches say the rest.

Market

Srđan Mijailović linked with a move away

The name of Srđan Mijailović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

120 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Marko Docić says Cukaricki 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

Cukaricki lose Juan Román Gimenez

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

Loan watch

Darije Markočević wants to come home

“I did not go to Puskas Akademia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cukaricki and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Juan Román Gimenez

“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

Cukaricki share the spoils with Radnicki 1923

A 1-1 draw with Radnicki 1923 leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

Lazar Mijović is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.27 with 3 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

In brief

119 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

6 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Paul Mbong: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

Cukaricki get the job done against Mladost Lucani

A 2-1 win over Mladost Lucani, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Srđan Mijailović 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.

In brief

118 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

30 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Vuk Draškić

There were 6 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.

Match

Cukaricki find a way past TSC

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

Squad

Mass Sise 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.

Loan watch

Mateo Maravić wants to come home

“I did not go to Paksi to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cukaricki and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.

Squad

Nemanja Miletić 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

Milan Pavkov linked with a move away

The name of Milan Pavkov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

117 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cukaricki come up short against Novi Pazar

Novi Pazar left with the points after a 2-3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Matija Gočmanac 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 Mladenović stays put

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

Squad

Cukaricki lose Márk Hodonicki

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

Loan watch

Vahid Gicić has seen enough of Rubin

“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 Cukaricki, and 1 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.

Market

Srđan Mijailović linked with a move away

The name of Srđan Mijailović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

116 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Cukaricki lose Juan Román Gimenez

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

Match

Cukaricki see off Spartak Subotica

Three points for Cukaricki, 2-1 the final word against Spartak Subotica in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Lazar Tufegdžić 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.

Loan watch

Darije Markočević has seen enough of Puskas Akademia

“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 Cukaricki, and 1 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Lazar Mijović is carrying Cukaricki

3 goals and a season average of 7.22. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Market

Sava Čestić linked with a move away

The name of Sava Čestić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

115 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

9 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Anton Drozd hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cukaricki can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Veljko Radosavljević says Cukaricki 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

Milan Pavkov signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Milan Pavkov commits to Cukaricki for another 3 years.

In brief

114 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Matija Gočmanac: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Milan Pavkov stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Milan Pavkov and Cukaricki agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

Cukaricki see off Radnicki Nis

Three points for Cukaricki, 3-2 the final word against Radnicki Nis in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Uroš Miladinović 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.

Loan watch

Mateo Maravić wants to come home

“I did not go to Paksi to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cukaricki and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.

Squad

Uroš Miladinović is off the mark for Cukaricki

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief

113 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Juan Román Gimenez says Cukaricki 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

Vuk Draškić keeps Cukaricki in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Cukaricki see off Vojvodina

Three points for Cukaricki, 2-1 the final word against Vojvodina in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

112 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Vuk Draškić

There were 6 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

Juan Román Gimenez out for 89 days

The medical room confirms 89 days on the sidelines for Juan Román Gimenez, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Match

Cukaricki come up short against Napredak

Napredak left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Mass Sise 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.

Loan watch

Darije Markočević has seen enough of Puskas Akademia

“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 Cukaricki, and 1 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Marko Docić 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

111 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Anton Drozd asks to leave Cukaricki

“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.

Squad

Leon Borković: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Cukaricki

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match

Cukaricki get the job done against Javor-Matis

A 1-0 win over Javor-Matis, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Nemanja Miletić 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

Lazar Tufegdžić linked with a move away

The name of Lazar Tufegdžić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Brandon Cambridge 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The terraces

Everybody has an opinion about Slobodan Tedić

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

Market

The window shut and Brandon Cambridge is still in the building

Cukaricki spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.

In brief

110 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Cukaricki sign Vanja Tomić for $480.0K

The paperwork is done: Vanja Tomić joins from Radnicki 1923 in a deal worth $480.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Vuk Draškić

“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

Rubin watching Vahid Gicić

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

Loan watch

Mateo Maravić has seen enough of Paksi

“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 Cukaricki, and 2 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

Match

Honours even between Cukaricki and Radnik Surdulica

1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

Milan Pavkov finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Cukaricki have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

In brief

109 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cup progress for Cukaricki

A 3-2 win over Radnicki 1923, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad

Brandon Cambridge: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Paul Mbong asks to leave Cukaricki

“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.

Squad

Marko Docić 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

Cukaricki find a way past IMT

IMT made Cukaricki work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Vladan Čarapić signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vladan Čarapić commits to Cukaricki for another 4 years.

Squad

Aleksej Vukičević is off the mark for Cukaricki

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Market

The Srđan Mijailović talk will not go away

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

Market

Cukaricki bring in Eric Bile on loan

A season-long audition: Ludogorets still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Cukaricki's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.

In brief

108 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

6 matches without a win for Cukaricki

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Cukaricki are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Juan Román Gimenez out for 118 days

The medical room confirms 118 days on the sidelines for Juan Román Gimenez, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Lazar Tufegdžić

“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

Darije Markočević has seen enough of Puskas Akademia

“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 Cukaricki, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Match

Cukaricki and Zeleznicar Pancevo cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Zeleznicar Pancevo came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Market

The Sava Čestić talk will not go away

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

In brief

107 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Vuk Draškić keeps Cukaricki in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

5 matches without a win for Cukaricki

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Cukaricki are no longer polite ones.

Market

Dragan Čubra is a Cukaricki player

The fee is $410.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Napredak drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

Veljko Radosavljević signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Veljko Radosavljević commits to Cukaricki for another 5 years.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Matija Gočmanac

“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

Cukaricki draw a blank against Partizan

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

Market

Lazar Tufegdžić linked with a move away

The name of Lazar Tufegdžić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Álex Segura 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

Godswill Vadze placed on the list

Cukaricki have made Godswill Vadze available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

106 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Cukaricki taken apart

0-4 to Crvena Zvezda, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match

4 matches without a win for Cukaricki

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Cukaricki are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Srđan Mijailović 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

Andreja Stojanović stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Andreja Stojanović and Cukaricki agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Vojvodina expected to open talks for Vojin Serafimović

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Cukaricki will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Boardroom

Inquest at Cukaricki

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.

Loan watch

Mateo Maravić has seen enough of Paksi

“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 Cukaricki, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

The armband comes off Uroš Miladinović

Cukaricki will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

Squad

Uroš Miladinović 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

105 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Brandon Cambridge hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cukaricki can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Juan Román Gimenez

“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

Costly mistake from Vuk Draškić

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Vuk Draškić knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

Match

Honours even between Cukaricki and Radnicki 1923

1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

Marko Docić 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 Srđan Mijailović talk will not go away

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

In brief

104 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Cukaricki turn down San Jose Earthquakes for Milan Pavkov

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

Boardroom

Cukaricki tie Luka Rajkovic down

A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.

Market

Nemanja Mitrovic comes home

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

Market

Marko Mladenovic is a Cukaricki player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Market

Slobodan Bogdanovic is a Cukaricki player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Milan Pavkov

“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.

Boardroom

Cukaricki board go back on their word

Something was promised, a deadline passed, and it did not arrive. Trust inside a football club is built over years and spent in an afternoon.

Squad

Mass Sise stays put

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

Match

Honours even between Cukaricki and Mladost Lucani

1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

103 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Cukaricki sign Mass Sise for $980.0K

The paperwork is done: Mass Sise joins from TSC in a deal worth $980.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad

Aleksandar Stančić is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.18 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Cukaricki know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Vojin Serafimović

“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

Sava Čestić linked with a move away

The name of Sava Čestić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Srđan Mijailović has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Srđan Mijailović keeps the shirt for now, at Cukaricki's convenience rather than his own.

Market

Anton Drozd joins Cukaricki on a free

No fee and no drama: Anton Drozd has signed at Cukaricki, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.

In brief

102 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Uroš Miladinović stays put

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

Market

Puskas Akademia watching Darije Markočević

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

Squad

Brandon Cambridge 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.

In brief

101 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Aboubacar Cissé signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aboubacar Cissé commits to Cukaricki for another 2 years.

Squad

Stefan Mladenović 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

The Srđan Mijailović talk will not go away

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

Squad

Matija Gočmanac has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Matija Gočmanac keeps the shirt for now, at Cukaricki's convenience rather than his own.

Market

Cukaricki bring in Vuk Draškić on loan

A season-long audition: Crvena Zvezda still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Cukaricki's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.

Market

Sambou Sissoko leaves Cukaricki for nothing

No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Sambou Sissoko moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.

In brief

100 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cukaricki up to position 3

53 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Paul Mbong

“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

The Lazar Tufegdžić talk will not go away

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

In brief

99 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Cukaricki turn down Radnik Surdulica for Mateo Maravić

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

Squad

Aleksandar Stančić is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.18 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Cukaricki know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad

Cukaricki lose Aleksej Vukičević

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

In brief

98 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Cukaricki sign Aleksej Vukičević for $1.7M

The paperwork is done: Aleksej Vukičević joins from OFK Beograd in a deal worth $1.7M. Now comes the harder part.

Market

Aboubacar Cissé has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cukaricki they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Radnicki Nis expected to open talks for Mateo Maravić

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Cukaricki will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Squad

Brandon Cambridge 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

Sambou Sissoko 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Milan Pavkov talk will not go away

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

In brief

97 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Brandon Cambridge: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Mateo Maravić attracts admirers

The name of Mateo Maravić has come up in conversations Cukaricki were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Juan Román Gimenez

“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.

In brief

96 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

29 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Continental nights are coming to Cukaricki

Qualification is secured, and next season the big floodlit nights are continental ones. For the players it is a stage; for the accounts it is a lifeline; for the supporters it is passports.

Match

Cukaricki up to position 3

53 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad

Leon Borković says Cukaricki 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

Matija Gočmanac claims the golden glove

The one award nobody else on the pitch can win goes to Matija Gočmanac, on 12 clean sheets across the season. Keepers wait a career for a season like it.

Squad

Vojin Serafimović 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

Nemanja Miletić 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

95 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Jonathan: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Aleksandar Stančić is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.18 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Cukaricki know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Leon Borković

“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.

In brief

94 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Aboubacar Cissé has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cukaricki they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Đorđe Glišović 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

The Milan Pavkov talk will not go away

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

In brief

93 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Srđan Mijailović stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Srđan Mijailović and Cukaricki agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Juan Román Gimenez

“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.

Boardroom

$2.4M on the table at Cukaricki

The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.

In brief

92 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cukaricki up to position 3

53 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market

Jonathan asks to leave Cukaricki

“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

Cukaricki turn down FC Cincinnati for Vahid Gicić

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

Squad

Cukaricki lose Aboubacar Cissé

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

Loan watch

Darije Markočević has seen enough of Lechia

“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 Cukaricki, and 1 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Paul Mbong

“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.

In brief

91 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Veljko Radosavljević: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Aleksandar Stančić is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.18 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Cukaricki know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Market

Vahid Gicić attracts admirers

The name of Vahid Gicić has come up in conversations Cukaricki were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

In brief

90 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Nemanja Miletić: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Aboubacar Cissé has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cukaricki they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

The Milan Pavkov talk will not go away

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

In brief

89 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Juan Román Gimenez: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Đorđe Glišović

“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

Nemanja Miletić 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

88 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

3 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cukaricki up to position 3

53 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad

Leon Borković says Cukaricki 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.

Loan watch

Darije Markočević has seen enough of Lechia

“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 Cukaricki, and 1 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

87 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Aleksandar Stančić is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.18 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Cukaricki know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad

Juan Román Gimenez 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Agustín Peralta Bauer 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.

In brief

86 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Lazar Stojanović: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Aboubacar Cissé has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cukaricki they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Slobodan Tedić 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.

In brief

85 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Paul Mbong says Cukaricki 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

The manager makes an example of Juan Román Gimenez

“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

Vojin Serafimović stays put

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

In brief

84 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cukaricki up to position 3

53 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad

Lazar Tufegdžić signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lazar Tufegdžić commits to Cukaricki for another 3 years.

Loan watch

Darije Markočević has seen enough of Lechia

“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 Cukaricki, and 1 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Veljko Radosavljević 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

Sambou Sissoko 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Lazar Tufegdžić talk will not go away

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

In brief

83 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Matija Gočmanac keeps Cukaricki in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Cukaricki out of the cup

Partizan ended it 0-1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad

Aboubacar Cissé says Cukaricki 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.

In brief

82 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Aboubacar Cissé has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cukaricki they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Nemanja Miletić

“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

Marko Docić 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

81 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Matija Gočmanac keeps Cukaricki in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 15 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

No mercy from Cukaricki

TSC will want this one forgotten quickly: 3-0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Cukaricki were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Match

9 unbeaten for Cukaricki

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Cukaricki did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Sota Kitano is carrying Cukaricki

14 goals and a season average of 7.53. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Vojin Serafimović: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Lazar Tufegdžić 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.

Loan watch

Vladan Čarapić has seen enough of Mladost Lucani

“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 Cukaricki, and 0 appearances in 33 say he has earned the hearing.

Market

The Srđan Mijailović talk will not go away

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

Market

The window shut and Jonathan is still in the building

Cukaricki spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.

In brief

80 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cukaricki are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 50 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Match

8 unbeaten for Cukaricki

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Cukaricki did not have in the autumn.

Squad

No place for Marko Docić on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Cukaricki pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Bojica Nikčević

“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

Mateo Maravić wants to come home

“I did not go to Radnicki 1923 to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cukaricki and fight for my place.” 16 appearances in 28 matches say the rest.

Market

Radnicki 1923 expected to open talks for Aboubacar Cissé

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Cukaricki will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Squad

Uroš Miladinović is carrying Cukaricki

2 goals and a season average of 7.29. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

Cukaricki 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.

Market

The Lazar Tufegdžić talk will not go away

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

In brief

79 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Cukaricki make it 7 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Cukaricki have 7 straight wins of it.

Market

Cukaricki turn down Javor-Matis for Vojin Serafimović

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

Squad

Aleksandar Stančić is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.18 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Cukaricki know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Market

Aboubacar Cissé attracts admirers

The name of Aboubacar Cissé has come up in conversations Cukaricki were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Juan Román Gimenez

“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

Cukaricki find a way past Spartak Subotica

Spartak Subotica made Cukaricki work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief

78 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Cukaricki make it 6 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Cukaricki have 6 straight wins of it.

Squad

Sota Kitano is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.51 with 12 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

Cukaricki get the job done against OFK Beograd

A 3-2 win over OFK Beograd, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Matija Gočmanac 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

Darije Markočević attracts admirers

The name of Darije Markočević has come up in conversations Cukaricki were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Juan Román Gimenez 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.

Squad

Lazar Tufegdžić finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Cukaricki have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

Market

Cukaricki bring in an old head

Facundo Cabral is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Market

The Milan Pavkov talk will not go away

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

In brief

77 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Matija Gočmanac keeps Cukaricki in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Cukaricki make it 5 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Cukaricki have 5 straight wins of it.

Market

Cukaricki turn down Radnicki 1923 for Slobodan Tedić

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

Squad

The manager makes an example of Srđan Mijailović

“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

Cukaricki find a way past Radnicki Nis

Radnicki Nis made Cukaricki work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Márk Hodonicki stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Márk Hodonicki and Cukaricki agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

No place for Juan Román Gimenez on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Cukaricki pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Loan watch

Vladan Čarapić has seen enough of Mladost Lucani

“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 Cukaricki, and 0 appearances in 29 say he has earned the hearing.

Market

Spartak 1918 expected to open talks for Vahid Gicić

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Cukaricki will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

76 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cukaricki are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 40 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Đorđe Glišović asks to leave Cukaricki

“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.

Match

Cukaricki make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Cukaricki have 4 straight wins of it.

Squad

Anderson Prestes: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Sota Kitano is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.44 with 11 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market

Cukaricki sell Milorad Kojić for $210.0K

Milorad Kojić has left for OFK Beograd in a $210.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Match

Cukaricki see off Vojvodina

Three points for Cukaricki, 1-0 the final word against Vojvodina in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

Vahid Gicić attracts admirers

The name of Vahid Gicić has come up in conversations Cukaricki were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market

Radnicki 1923 are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Cukaricki will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

75 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Vojvodina come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Cukaricki did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Jonathan asks to leave Cukaricki

“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.

Match

Cukaricki cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

At 21, Aleksandar Stančić is already the best thing here

An average of 7.02 in a first team he is several years too young for. Cukaricki have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Market

Slobodan Tedić attracts admirers

The name of Slobodan Tedić has come up in conversations Cukaricki were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Sota Kitano is carrying Cukaricki

10 goals and a season average of 7.40. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

Cukaricki get the job done against Napredak

A 2-1 win over Napredak, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Marko Docić

“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

Henrique is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Cukaricki has been clear about where Henrique stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

74 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Đorđe Glišović: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Veljko Radosavljević signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Veljko Radosavljević commits to Cukaricki for another 5 years.

Match

Cukaricki see off Javor-Matis

Three points for Cukaricki, 2-1 the final word against Javor-Matis in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Bojica Nikčević 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

Lazar Tufegdžić left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Lazar Tufegdžić will call it something else in private.

Market

Milan Pavkov linked with a move away

The name of Milan Pavkov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

73 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Henrique has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cukaricki they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Matija Gočmanac keeps Cukaricki in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Lazar Stojanović: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Sota Kitano is carrying Cukaricki

9 goals and a season average of 7.35. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Lazar Tufegdžić

“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

Cukaricki get the job done against Radnik Surdulica

A 1-0 win over Radnik Surdulica, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

72 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A bad afternoon for Cukaricki against IMT

1-2 to IMT, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Milan Pavkov 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 terraces

The spotlight tightens on Milan Pavkov

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

Squad

Uroš Miladinović is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.25 with 2 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market

Lazar Tufegdžić linked with a move away

The name of Lazar Tufegdžić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Lazar Mijović wants a proper job in this side

Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Lazar Mijović has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Cukaricki know, and have known for weeks.

In brief

71 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Bogdan Bogdanović: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Matija Gočmanac 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

Sota Kitano is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.29 with 8 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

In brief

70 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Cup progress for Cukaricki

A 1-0 win over OFK Beograd, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Match

Cukaricki come up short against Partizan

Partizan left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Bojica Nikčević 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

Marko Docić has to sit this one out

A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Cukaricki lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.

Squad

Sambou Sissoko 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

Milan Pavkov linked with a move away

The name of Milan Pavkov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

69 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Henrique has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cukaricki they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Brandon Cambridge says Cukaricki 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.

Match

4 matches without a win for Cukaricki

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Cukaricki are no longer polite ones.

Match

Crvena Zvezda take the points off Cukaricki

Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Loan watch

Vladan Čarapić wants to come home

“I did not go to Mladost Lucani to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cukaricki and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.

The terraces

Everybody has an opinion about Lazar Tufegdžić

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

Squad

Milorad Kojić 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

Nemanja Miletić 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Sava Čestić talk will not go away

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

In brief

68 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A bad afternoon for Cukaricki against Radnicki 1923

0-1 to Radnicki 1923, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Vojin Serafimović

“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

Lazar Tufegdžić linked with a move away

The name of Lazar Tufegdžić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cukaricki say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

67 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The manager makes an example of Lazar Tufegdžić

“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

Sota Kitano is carrying Cukaricki

7 goals and a season average of 7.25. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

Cukaricki and Mladost Lucani take a point apiece

It finished 2-2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

66 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Milorad Kojić hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cukaricki can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Milan Pavkov 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

Honours even between Cukaricki and TSC

2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

Sota Kitano is carrying Cukaricki

6 goals and a season average of 7.21. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

The armband comes off Srđan Mijailović

Cukaricki will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

Squad

Srđan Mijailović 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 Cukaricki, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

65 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Matija Gočmanac keeps Cukaricki in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Henrique has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cukaricki they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match

Cukaricki see off Novi Pazar

Three points for Cukaricki, 2-1 the final word against Novi Pazar in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Veljko Radosavljević 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.

Loan watch

Vladan Čarapić wants to come home

“I did not go to Mladost Lucani to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cukaricki and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.

Market

The Sava Čestić talk will not go away

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

In brief

64 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cukaricki up to position 3

22 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad

Slobodan Tedić: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Vojin Serafimović

“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

Cukaricki and Spartak Subotica take a point apiece

It finished 2-2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad

Veljko Radosavljević finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Cukaricki have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

Squad

Sambou Sissoko 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

63 Edition

The Cukaricki Post

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Agustín Peralta Bauer: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cukaricki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

OFK Beograd take the points off Cukaricki

Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Nemanja Miletić

“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.

In brief