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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Vojvodina, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Strahinja Manojlović, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Bogdan Radonjic to a room that had heard them before.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Radnicki Nis are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bubacar Djaló was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Miloš Spasić beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 8. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Uneasy
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A brace, and Alexandr Shestyuk takes the afternoon — 8.67
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Alexandr Shestyuk provided it, and the 8.67 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match17 Oct 2026
It had gone 9 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Match17 Oct 2026
Cukaricki made Radnicki Nis work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Lamonth Rochester 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.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“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 Radnicki Nis, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Bogdan Radonjic on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Radnicki Nis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bubacar Djaló 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.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
Vojvodina next, and one man in the Radnicki Nis dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Radnicki Nis, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Radnicki Nis may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Miloš Rošević
“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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Franck Kanouté 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 Radnicki Nis, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market12 Oct 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Dejan Stanivuković has his answer from Radnicki Nis; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Miloš Spasić’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Babacar Mboup has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Radnicki Nis that is a harder question to answer.
Market12 Oct 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Bubacar Djaló may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad12 Oct 2026
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Radnicki Nis the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Looking ahead: the trip to Cukaricki
Position 14 for the hosts, a long journey for the away end, and a fixture that will look ordinary on paper right up until it is not.
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Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
9 matches without a win for Radnicki Nis
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Radnicki Nis are no longer polite ones.
Match5 Oct 2026
6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nikola Zečević is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Bojan Kovačević
“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 dugout5 Oct 2026
“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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bubacar Djaló was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Radnicki Nis
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Radnicki Nis are no longer polite ones.
Match26 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Radnicki Nis
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Miloš Rošević 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Bogdan Radonjic after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
5 new faces, and Radnicki Nis 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Radnicki Nis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bubacar Djaló 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.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Strahinja Manojlović’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Radnicki Nis needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Miloš Spasić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 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.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“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 Radnicki Nis, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.32, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Bogdan Radonjic after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Match19 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for Radnicki Nis?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against IMT? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Radnik Surdulica in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Issah Abass 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
Match12 Sep 2026
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.
Match12 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Zeleznicar Pancevo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Radnicki Nis told Alexandr Shestyuk something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Radnicki Nis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bubacar Djaló is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Milijan Ilić’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Radnicki Nis needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market14 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Miloš Spasić’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Radnicki Nis, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 17 in, 3 out at Radnicki Nis
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 17 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 Sep 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Voždovac moved on, Petar Petrović reports back to Radnicki Nis, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Mladost Lucani wanted more than $39.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Bubacar Djaló 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Radnicki Nis 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.
The dugout7 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Radomir Milosavljević has moved up it.
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Crisis
Market31 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Radnicki Nis people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market31 Aug 2026
Ranko Jokić 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 Radnicki Nis can pretend not to have heard.
Match29 Aug 2026
5 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $39.8K — a club that wants Ognjen Bondžulić enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
$39.0K on the table at Mladost Lucani. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Mačva Šabac wanted more than $220.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dynamo Kyiv have kept their man, and Radnicki Nis go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Partizan left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Uroš Vitas, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
Loznica go through and Radnicki Nis go home, 0‑1 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
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Radnicki Nis can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from Voždovac for Darko Nikolić 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $68.2K — a club that wants Anes Rušević enough to be asked twice.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Radnicki Nis's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Radnicki Nis has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Widzew Łódź have kept their man, and Radnicki Nis go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match22 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Issah Abass, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Match15 Aug 2026
Late, late show earns Radnicki Nis a point
Minute 89, against Radnicki 1923, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Market17 Aug 2026
Ranko Jokić told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ranko Jokić has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Radnicki Nis.
Match15 Aug 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Bubacar Djaló falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Radnicki Nis, another week without a signature from Miloš Rošević.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“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 dugout17 Aug 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Kozármisleny had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $153.6K — a club that wants Vasilije Novičić enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexandr Shestyuk and Radnicki Nis agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Miloš Rošević 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 dugout10 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marko Pavlovic 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nikola Matic 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Aleksandar Mitrovic has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No place for Miloš Rošević in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Radnicki Nis are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer from Slavia Mozyr for Uroš Kilibarda 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Miloš Spasić and Radnicki Nis agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Miloš Spasić 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 terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Darko Nikolić 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Ušće have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mateja Radonjić. The answer from Radnicki Nis has not changed — yet.
Match1 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over TSC, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 7.86. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad3 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Radnicki Nis 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.