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Uneasy
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.84, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market31 Aug 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 The request is on a desk at Trayal Kruševac, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Sodiq Kazeem 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. Sodiq Kazeem has, at Trayal Kruševac, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jovan Zogović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets31 Aug 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Dubočica made Trayal Kruševac work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
0‑1 against Radnicki 1923, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match22 Aug 2026
Jovan Zogović had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Borac Čačak were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Jovan Zogović takes the afternoon — 8.52
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jovan Zogović provided it, and the 8.52 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Trayal Kruševac's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Trayal Kruševac has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Đorđe Brborić 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. Đorđe Brborić has, at Trayal Kruševac, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The deal with Mladost Lucani is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Nikola Đorić 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 Trayal Kruševac this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings24 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Dušan Puletić 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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Match15 Aug 2026
0‑4 against Loznica, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Market17 Aug 2026
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dušan Puletić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets17 Aug 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.
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 Trayal Kruševac this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikola Stanković, and the manager let it.
Market17 Aug 2026
A stepping stone, not a home, for Godbless Ayeke
He is doing his job and he is not settling. Trayal Kruševac were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Dušan Puletić
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Trayal Kruševac will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
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Uneasy
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.47 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Mladost Lucani is saying, and nobody at Trayal Kruševac is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Trayal Kruševac asked and FAP Priboj said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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 Trayal Kruševac this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Petar Grujic 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Strahinja Ivic 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bogdan Grujic 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Strahinja Jovanovic 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikola Đorić, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nikola Đorić and Trayal Kruševac agree another 3 years.
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 Trayal Kruševac this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Nikola Đorić 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Trayal Kruševac asked and Vojvodina said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match1 Aug 2026
It needed Ayumu Nishimura to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Voždovac, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Petar Stojkovic was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Trayal Kruševac dressing room was either.
Squad3 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Slaviša Bogdanović is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
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.