16 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process
29 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Miloš Jović, 20, steals the show — 8.15

Marked 8.15 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

Tempers go at IMT

Ognjen Čančarević was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The terraces

IMT supporters have found a favourite in Miloš Jović

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Miloš Jović has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

IMT get the job done against Crvena Zvezda

A 2‑0 win over Crvena Zvezda, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

5 new faces, and IMT are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

A satisfied Nenad Ivic

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Nenad Ivic could afford to be generous.

The dugout

IMT keep their word to Ibrahima Kébé

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

Squad

Miloš Jović is the weekend's best young player

At 20 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.

The dugout

Karl Fabien does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

A hiding for IMT

Beaten 1‑4 by Radnicki 1923, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

Ognjen Čančarević stands alone

8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Karl Fabien

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Tadija Cojić: 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.” IMT have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets

Anísio Cabral turns down IMT

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Benfica keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Sankara Karamoko

16 goals and a season average of 7.21 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

Yaniv Edery arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Yaniv Edery has, at IMT, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Words exchanged at IMT

Stefan Šapić and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

No hiding place for Stefan Šapić

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

In brief

27 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

IMT run riot against Mladost Lucani

6‑2, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad

Sankara Karamoko takes the match ball home

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

Player ratings

Both of them Salim Musah's — 9.38

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.38, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Boardroom

IMT close the window on a squad of their own making

3 in and 1 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Market

Charly Keita’s move to OFK Beograd falls through

The deal that would have taken Charly Keita to OFK Beograd has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to IMT with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Match

8 goals as IMT and Mladost Lucani go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between IMT and Mladost Lucani, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Sankara Karamoko at his very best

Marked 9.84. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at IMT.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Jonathan Schlupp

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

Squad

A falling-out at IMT

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

In brief

26 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Charly Keita 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 IMT can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Charly Keita has one foot out of the door

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

Transfer targets

No thanks: José Enrique rejects the move

IMT had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Persik, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Ognjen Čančarević in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IMT this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Brian Madjo

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

Squad

Stefan Šapić falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Karl Fabien in the eights

A performance of 8.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ibrahima Kébé

“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

IMT share the spoils with TSC

A 1‑1 draw with TSC leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

25 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Miloš Jović, 20, steals the show — 7.61

Marked 7.61 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Transfer targets

Rafael Nel will not be coming to IMT

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Sporting CP is saying, and nobody at IMT is enjoying the guessing.

Match

Novi Pazar end the IMT run at 8

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 8 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Squad

Tempers go at IMT

Ognjen Čančarević was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Karl Fabien beats them one at a time

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

Transfer targets

IMT rebuffed over Ahmed Abdullahi

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

Match

IMT come up short against Novi Pazar

Novi Pazar left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ognjen Čančarević

“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

A row about effort at IMT

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Stefan Šapić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

24 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Charly Keita agrees terms with Javor-Matis

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around IMT people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Salim Musah at 20 — 8.24

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Salim Musah did not need any: 8.24, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match

8 unbeaten for IMT

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

Transfer targets

Rafał Adamski turns down IMT

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Legia keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Words exchanged at IMT

Ognjen Čančarević and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Junior Kamwa arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Junior Kamwa has, at IMT, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Jakub Świerczok

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

Match

IMT see off Spartak Subotica

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

The terraces

IMT supporters have found a favourite in Salim Musah

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Salim Musah has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

23 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Salim Musah at 20 — 7.75

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Salim Musah did not need any: 7.75, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match

Still nobody has beaten IMT

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

A falling-out at IMT

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

Market

Charly Keita attracts admirers

The name of Charly Keita has come up in conversations IMT were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Transfer targets

IMT rebuffed over Anísio Cabral

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

Match

IMT find a way past OFK Beograd

OFK Beograd made IMT work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Karl Fabien at his very best

Marked 8.17. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at IMT.

Squad

Naba Mensah signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Naba Mensah and IMT agree another 5 years.

Market

Still no ink between IMT and Oluwaseun Oladimeji

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

In brief

22 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Karl Fabien

Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Ognjen Čančarević in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IMT this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Adrian Ziarek gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Adrian Ziarek has just signed for IMT, and for once the answer mattered.

Match

Still nobody has beaten IMT

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.

Squad

Words at IMT training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Šapić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Adrian Ziarek signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Adrian Ziarek commits to IMT for another 3 years.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Charly Keita

“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

Honours even between IMT and Radnicki Nis

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

The dugout

Nenad Ivic on the point

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

In brief

21 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at IMT

Stefan Šapić was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Karl Fabien beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Words at IMT training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vicky Kiankaulua is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

IMT and Vojvodina take a point apiece

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

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Nenad Ivic chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout

The form table has caught Ismael Casas

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

The dugout

The plan did not have a place for Oluwaseun Oladimeji

Nobody at IMT is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

The dugout

When it matters, Nikola Krstić plays

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

Looking ahead

Stefan Baltić faces his old club

Radnicki Nis next, and one man in the IMT dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief

20 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Nikola Glišić leads the rout of Cukaricki

4‑0, and Nikola Glišić took the headlines on an afternoon when everything IMT tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Both of them Nikola Glišić's — 8.47

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.47, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Vintage Aleksandar Sedlar — 8.31

At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.31, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Words exchanged at IMT

Stefan Šapić and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The terraces

IMT supporters have found a favourite in Salim Musah

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Salim Musah has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Market

IMT promote Lazar Babic from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lazar Babic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Match

Nikola Glišić at the heart of a fast IMT start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Nikola Glišić in the middle of it, and Cukaricki unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Luka Luković at his very best

Marked 8.43. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at IMT.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ibrahima Kébé

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

In brief

19 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Sankara Karamoko out for 14 days

14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. IMT lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

At last: IMT win one

9 matches without a win, and then this, against Javor-Matis. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Squad

A falling-out at IMT

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

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Nikola Krstić

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

IMT 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

Vladimir Radočaj reaches 200 appearances

200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Squad

Words at IMT training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Šapić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Aleksandar Sedlar stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.74 on the card, and the IMT support went home talking about one name.

Player ratings

Josué Tiendrébéogo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

18 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Sankara Karamoko out for 22 days

22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. IMT lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

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

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

Squad

Ognjen Čančarević in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IMT this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Karl Fabien

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

Match

IMT refuse to lose to Radnik Surdulica

A point taken on 85 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Squad

A row about effort at IMT

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vicky Kiankaulua was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Vladimir Radočaj

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. IMT told Vladimir Radočaj something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout

No hiding place for Vicky Kiankaulua

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

Match

Salim Musah rescues a point for IMT

It needed Salim Musah to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Radnik Surdulica, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

17 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Sankara Karamoko damages knee ligaments — 30 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 30 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

The wait goes on for IMT

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Tempers go at IMT

Ognjen Čančarević was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Oluwaseun Oladimeji

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

Karl Fabien was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

Honours even between IMT and Napredak

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

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Nenad Ivic was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the IMT dressing room was either.

The dugout

The form table has caught Ismael Casas

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

Player ratings

Luka Luković ran the game

Chances created: 9. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.

In brief

16 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

7 matches without a win for IMT

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around IMT are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Words exchanged at IMT

Ognjen Čančarević and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

IMT come up short against Zeleznicar Pancevo

Zeleznicar Pancevo left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Stefan Šapić falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Luka Luković

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Nenad Ivic left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

A promise honoured at IMT

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

The dugout

No place in the plan for Oluwaseun Oladimeji

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

The dugout

Stefan Šapić 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

15 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

6 matches without a win for IMT

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

Squad

A falling-out at IMT

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

Market

Milos Markovic steps up from the IMT academy

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

Squad

Stefan Šapić falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

The half-term report on IMT

Position 11, 16 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Luka Luković

7.94, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. IMT had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Match

Honours even between IMT and Partizan

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

Player ratings

Karl Fabien beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Nenad Ivic on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

In brief

14 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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

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

Match

6 goals as IMT and Crvena Zvezda go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between IMT and Crvena Zvezda, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Match

Luka Luković’s goal not enough for IMT

Luka Luković scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑4 to Crvena Zvezda, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Vladimir Radočaj in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IMT this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Stefan Šapić falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Luka Luković at his very best

Marked 8.12. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at IMT.

Market

Talks stall between IMT and Oluwaseun Oladimeji

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout

Nenad Ivic faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Nenad Ivic after 2‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ismael Casas

“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

13 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for IMT

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Tempers go at IMT

Vladimir Radočaj was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Stefan Šapić falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Appearance number 100 for Kenroy Campbell

100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ibrahima Kébé

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

The dugout

A promise honoured at IMT

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

Match

IMT share the spoils with Radnicki 1923

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

The dugout

Josué Tiendrébéogo 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 IMT, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Nenad Ivic chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

In brief

12 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Words exchanged at IMT

Ognjen Čančarević and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

IMT count the cost of losing Nikola Glišić

14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Match

Mladost Lucani take the points off IMT

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

The dugout

Oluwaseun Oladimeji 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.

Player ratings

Karl Fabien runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Ismael Casas falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Luka Luković stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.79 on the card, and the IMT support went home talking about one name.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Nenad Ivic to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

IMT keep their word to Luka Luković

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

In brief

11 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at IMT

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Karl Fabien

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

Market

IMT promote Slobodan Maksimovic from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Slobodan Maksimovic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

IMT promote Predrag Krsticic from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Predrag Krsticic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

The dugout

Salim Musah 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

IMT caught on 85 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then TSC scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Match

Honours even between IMT and TSC

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

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Nenad Ivic on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout

Ismael Casas dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

10 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ognjen Čančarević in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IMT this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nikola Glišić runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A row about effort at IMT

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Stefan Šapić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

10 new faces, and IMT are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Vuk Borović

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Vuk Borović has come out of that comparison in the side, and IMT have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

The dugout

No hiding place for Miloš Jović

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

Match

Sankara Karamoko rescues a point for IMT

It needed Sankara Karamoko to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Novi Pazar, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

Nenad Ivic: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout

Vladimir Radočaj 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

9 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Vintage Aleksandar Sedlar — 7.81

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.81, and nobody on the pitch better.

Match

At last: IMT win one

7 matches without a win, and then this, against Spartak Subotica. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Squad

Tempers go at IMT

Ognjen Čančarević was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The terraces

One of their own: Sankara Karamoko

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

IMT see off Spartak Subotica

Three points for IMT, 1‑0 the final word against Spartak Subotica in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Iván Martos makes it 200

200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

Squad

Vicky Kiankaulua falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Karl Fabien beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Nenad Ivic: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief

8 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for IMT

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings

Karl Fabien runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words exchanged at IMT

Ognjen Čančarević and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

A bad afternoon for IMT against OFK Beograd

1‑2 to OFK Beograd, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ognjen Čančarević

“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.

The dugout

Nenad Ivic: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad

Marko Luković has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and IMT will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Squad

A IMT teenager takes the young player award

Vuk Borović is 18, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Ognjen Čančarević

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

7 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for IMT

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Vuk Borović keeps IMT 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.

Player ratings

Karl Fabien beats them one at a time

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

Match

IMT cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

A falling-out at IMT

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

Market

IMT promote Predrag Pavlovic from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Predrag Pavlovic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

IMT promote Stefan Savic from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stefan Savic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Squad

Stefan Šapić falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout

Ibrahima Kébé 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

6 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

5 matches without a win for IMT

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

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 18 signed and 2 gone

That is the business done at IMT until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad

Stefan Šapić in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IMT this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Vojvodina take the points off IMT

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Oluwaseun Oladimeji 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

A row about effort at IMT

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vicky Kiankaulua was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at IMT

11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

Nenad Ivic answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad

Miloš Jović is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Miloš Jović has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

In brief

5 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

4 matches without a win for IMT

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

Squad

Tempers go at IMT

Ognjen Čančarević was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

Business is business: Jérémy Manzorro goes

Crvena Zvezda paid $260.0K and IMT took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Transfer targets

IMT rebuffed over Dušan Jovanović

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

The dugout

Nikola Krstić 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.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Stefan Šapić

15 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Nenad Ivic on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout

Oluwaseun Oladimeji asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

The form table has caught Ismael Casas

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

4 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The cup run ends for IMT

1‑3 against Partizan, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Match

IMT let it slip despite Sankara Karamoko

Sankara Karamoko had done his part in building a 3-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Javor-Matis were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Player ratings

Sankara Karamoko scores twice — 9.05

Two goals and a mark of 9.05 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Miloš Jović at 20 — 9.16

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Miloš Jović did not need any: 9.16, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Ibrahima Kébé pops up at the right end — 7.47

7.47, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Simon Kalambayi rejects the move

IMT had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Birmingham, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Match

Javor-Matis take the points off IMT

Beaten 4‑5, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Words exchanged at IMT

Ognjen Čančarević and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Words at IMT training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Šapić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

3 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The terraces

A $740.0K sale, and a town that did not want it

Moussa Sissako has gone, the accounts have $740.0K in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Market

IMT say no — this time

The offer from OFK Beograd for Vasilije Novičić was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets

Diego Callai turns down IMT

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Sporting CP keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

A falling-out at IMT

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

Market

Business is business: Moussa Sissako goes

Crvena Zvezda paid $740.0K and IMT took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Still no ink between IMT and Oluwaseun Oladimeji

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

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Jérémy Manzorro

7.69, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. IMT had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Transfer targets

IMT ask about Simon Kalambayi

A loan enquiry to Birmingham: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad

Humaid Obaid signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Humaid Obaid and IMT agree another 3 years.

In brief

2 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Both of them Sankara Karamoko's — 8.78

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.78, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Partizan come back empty-handed

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

Transfer targets

Oluwaseun Oladimeji due for a IMT medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Tempers go at IMT

Ognjen Čančarević was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

IMT see off Napredak

Three points for IMT, 2‑0 the final word against Napredak in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Karl Fabien beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Dusan Gacinovic steps up from the IMT academy

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

Market

Vladimir Nastasic steps up from the IMT academy

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

Market

Predrag Babic steps up from the IMT academy

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

In brief

1 Edition

The IMT Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

IMT win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. Zeleznicar Pancevo will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Squad

Ognjen Čančarević stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad

Aleksandar Sedlar stays put

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

Squad

Ognjen Čančarević in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IMT this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Karl Fabien was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

IMT get the job done against Zeleznicar Pancevo

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

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Sankara Karamoko

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Sankara Karamoko

Marked 8.40 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Market

Talks stall between IMT and Aleksandar Sedlar

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief