From our football correspondent
Steady
Market18 Jan 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Radnik Surdulica, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Radnik Surdulica may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad18 Jan 2027
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market18 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad18 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Radnik Surdulica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
David Dunđerski 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.
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Upbeat
Market11 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match11 Jan 2027
Position 3 and 39 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Radnik Surdulica may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A move Harvey Griffiths would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Harvey Griffiths is living that version at Radnik Surdulica, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Vukašin Bogdanović 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 ratings11 Jan 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
21 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Radnik Surdulica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Dunđerski 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Luka Zorić. 1‑0 against OFK Beograd, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Radnik Surdulica will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.90 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad4 Jan 2027
162 appearances across 9 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Radnik Surdulica know what they have.
Market4 Jan 2027
TSC come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Radnik Surdulica did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Radnik Surdulica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch4 Jan 2027
“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 Radnik Surdulica, and 0 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Pedro Santos 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.
Match2 Jan 2027
A 1‑0 win over Radnicki Nis, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Steady
Market28 Dec 2026
Bruno Silva 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 Radnik Surdulica can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Stefan Vidaković: 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.” Radnik Surdulica have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Vukašin Bogdanović 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Radnik Surdulica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Dunđerski 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 ratings28 Dec 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Igor Ivanović, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Market21 Dec 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 Radnik Surdulica, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad21 Dec 2026
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Nobody could get near Luka Zorić
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Dec 2026
David Dunđerski 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Mateja Gašić 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 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 Radnik Surdulica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Dec 2026
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.
Squad14 Dec 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Sandro Trémoulet 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Mateja Gašić 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.
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Crisis
Squad7 Dec 2026
Stefan Ranđelović 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday. The order of those three tells you everything about what a football club actually values.
Squad7 Dec 2026
David Dunđerski 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 Dec 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Mlađan Stevanović for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Radnik Surdulica will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Match5 Dec 2026
Napredak left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I watch every Radnik Surdulica game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Spartak Subotica runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Uneasy
Market30 Nov 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 Radnik Surdulica, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Radnik Surdulica may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad30 Nov 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 Radnik Surdulica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Radnik Surdulica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Dunđerski 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bruno Silva, and the manager let it.
Loan watch30 Nov 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 Radnik Surdulica, and 5 appearances in 15 say he has earned the hearing.
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Steady
Match18 Nov 2026
Crvena Zvezda go through and Radnik Surdulica go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market23 Nov 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 Radnik Surdulica, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match23 Nov 2026
Position 3 and 27 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad23 Nov 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 Radnik Surdulica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Igor Ivanović
14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Radnik Surdulica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match14 Nov 2026
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Partizan the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Radnik Surdulica will enjoy reviewing.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Radnik Surdulica may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
Igor Ivanović damages knee ligaments — 22 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 22 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Christ Kouadio out for 15 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Radnik Surdulica will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad9 Nov 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 Radnik Surdulica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Igor Ivanović
30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Radnik Surdulica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Christ Kouadio out for 22 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Radnik Surdulica will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Radnik Surdulica may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Rafael Pontelo pops up at the right end — 7.57
7.57, 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Luka Zorić 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.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I watch every Radnik Surdulica game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Javor-Matis runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Igor Ivanović
37 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Radnik Surdulica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match24 Oct 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Mladost Lucani, and it could have been more.
Market26 Oct 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 Radnik Surdulica, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match26 Oct 2026
22 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A brace, and Martin Novaković takes the afternoon — 8.37
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Martin Novaković provided it, and the 8.37 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Radnik Surdulica know it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Stefan Ranđelović 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
19 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Igor Ivanović
44 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Radnik Surdulica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 37 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad19 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 Radnik Surdulica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Radnik Surdulica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Dunđerski 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Luka Zorić
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 13 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Igor Ivanović
51 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Radnik Surdulica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Stefan Ranđelović 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.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
Igor Ivanović damages knee ligaments — 59 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 59 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Christ Kouadio out for 52 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Radnik Surdulica will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Luka Zorić
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match3 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Radnik Surdulica did not have in the autumn.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Vukašin Bogdanović 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 ratings5 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Radnik Surdulica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Dunđerski 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 terraces5 Oct 2026
At 23 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.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Igor Ivanović damages knee ligaments — 66 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 66 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.
Market28 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 Radnik Surdulica, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Christ Kouadio out for 59 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Radnik Surdulica will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match28 Sep 2026
Position 3, 15 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Match26 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Radnik Surdulica did not have in the autumn.
Squad28 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 Radnik Surdulica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Igor Ivanović damages knee ligaments — 73 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 73 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 67 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Igor Ivanović
81 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Radnik Surdulica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Sep 2026
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad14 Sep 2026
David Dunđerski 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Haris Hajdarević, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
13 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Vojvodina? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Market14 Sep 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Lazar Radojičić leaves Radnik Surdulica the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Igor Ivanović
88 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Radnik Surdulica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 81 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Sep 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 Radnik Surdulica can pretend not to have heard.
Match5 Sep 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Radnik Surdulica have 3 straight wins of it.
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 Radnik Surdulica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Sep 2026
Radnicki 1923 pay $120.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Radnik Surdulica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Dunđerski 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.58, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Igor Ivanović
95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Radnik Surdulica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Stefan Ranđelović 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
Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Rafael Pontelo 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Igor Ivanović
102 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Radnik Surdulica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match19 Aug 2026
A 0‑0 win over Vojvodina, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 95 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad24 Aug 2026
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Market24 Aug 2026
Stefan Ilić 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 Radnik Surdulica can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 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 Radnik Surdulica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
TSC pay $340.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
7.94, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Radnik Surdulica had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Igor Ivanović
109 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Radnik Surdulica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Christ Kouadio breaks a bone — 102 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 102 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from IMT for Stefan Ranđelović 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
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Radnik Surdulica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Vukašin Bogdanović 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
A 2‑0 win over IMT, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Luka Zorić
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Sadick Abubakar 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Pedro Empis
Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Christ Kouadio out for 111 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Radnik Surdulica will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market10 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Radnik Surdulica did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Martin Novaković and Radnik Surdulica agree another 3 years.
Squad10 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 Radnik Surdulica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Radnik Surdulica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sandro Trémoulet 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
1‑2 to Zeleznicar Pancevo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market10 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Crisis
Market3 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 Radnik Surdulica can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Aug 2026
140 appearances across 9 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Vukašin Bogdanović 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sandro Trémoulet 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.