From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match24 Oct 2026
3‑0, and Sankara Karamoko took the headlines on an afternoon when everything IMT tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.13 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
The drought breaks for IMT
7 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Radnicki 1923 were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Josué Tiendrébéogo 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Stefan Šapić 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑0, Darko Radonjic could afford to be generous.
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Crisis
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
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.
Match17 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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.
Match17 Oct 2026
2‑3 to Mladost Lucani, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Sankara Karamoko 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Sankara Karamoko had IMT level again within 2 minutes, and Mladost Lucani never got to play with a lead at all.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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 dugout19 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Darko Radonjic after 2‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Ismael Casas 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.
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Uneasy
Match10 Oct 2026
No end in sight to IMT's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at IMT has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
24 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 7.62 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, IMT had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikola Krstić, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
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.” Darko Radonjic chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Match10 Oct 2026
Point won or two lost for IMT?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against TSC? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Mladost Lucani in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Uneasy
Match3 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IMT this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
IMT are still strangers to each other
8 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Darko Radonjic was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the IMT dressing room was either.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Novi Pazar will be the happier side with the point.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Moussa Sissako 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.
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Crisis
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to IMT's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at IMT has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Spartak Subotica left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad28 Sep 2026
One booking too many, and Aleksandar Sedlar sits out. IMT lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
Match19 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for IMT
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Ismael Casas 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
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 dugout21 Sep 2026
Charly Keita has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at IMT will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
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Crisis
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Aleksandar Lukic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Marko Luković
“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.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against OFK Beograd in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Off the academy pitches and onto a senior team sheet at 16. The debut is the easy part; the second appearance is the one every young player has to earn.
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Steady
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 11 signed and 0 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IMT this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Sep 2026
Vojvodina left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. IMT will try again when the window opens; Napredak may not be selling by then.
Squad7 Sep 2026
9 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 dugout7 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Darko Radonjic after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Ognjen Čančarević
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Ognjen Čančarević has come out of that comparison in the side, and IMT have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Nikola Krstić
“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.
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Upbeat
Match29 Aug 2026
The 85th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Jérémy Manzorro decided nobody was going anywhere. Cukaricki had no time left to answer.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
He is 20 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
IMT get the job done against Cukaricki
A 1‑0 win over Cukaricki, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Darko Radonjic kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
IMT bow out of the cup
Partizan go through and IMT go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market24 Aug 2026
Kudrivka 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
20 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ognjen Čančarević, and the manager let it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sankara Karamoko. 1‑0 against Javor-Matis, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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 ratings24 Aug 2026
A mark of 7.80, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Crisis
Market17 Aug 2026
IMT say no — this time
The offer from Crvena Zvezda for Moussa Sissako was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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 ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Radnik Surdulica, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniil Sukhoruchko, and the manager let it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
Javor-Matis 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Upbeat
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Radnicki Nis have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Moussa Sissako. The answer from IMT has not changed — yet.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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 terraces10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sasa Rajkovic 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Slobodan Milenkovic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Darko Rajkovic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match8 Aug 2026
IMT 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Karl Fabien reaches 100 appearances
100 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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at IMT training over how hard people work
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Squad
Too much change too quickly at IMT
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
6 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IMT this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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 dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Darko Radonjic was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the IMT dressing room was either.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Josué Tiendrébéogo’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 13, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.