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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
Mouscron come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Vojvodina did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Napoli, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Dynamo Kyiv is saying, and nobody at Vojvodina is enjoying the guessing.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Vojvodina
Diogo Ferreira 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Vukan Savićević. 2‑1 against Zeleznicar Pancevo, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.17 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad31 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Vojvodina 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.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
Vojvodina through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Radnik Surdulica, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Marko Veličković at 21 — 7.93
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Marko Veličković did not need any: 7.93, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad24 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Diogo Ferreira 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Njegoš Petrović 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 targets24 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
He is 21 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Kufre Eta
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Ani Ozoemena 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. Ani Ozoemena is living that version at Vojvodina, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Njegoš Petrović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rapid Wien have kept their man, and Vojvodina go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Dragan Rosić
“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.
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Crvena Zvezda, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Vojvodina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Đorđe Crnomarković 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Milan Kolarević has come up in conversations Vojvodina were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Dragan Rosić knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
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Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
Vojvodina say no — this time
The offer from Zeleznicar Pancevo for Kufre Eta 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 targets10 Aug 2026
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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Vojvodina had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at HNK Rijeka, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nardin Mulahusejnović commits to Vojvodina for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Nardin Mulahusejnović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
OFK Beograd pay $110.0K, 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Njegoš Petrović, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Lazar 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dejan Zukić and Vojvodina agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Vojvodina
Nardin Mulahusejnović 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Vojvodina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Njegoš Petrović 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Chelsea have kept their man, and Vojvodina go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Dejan Zukić's contract
49 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.
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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Vojvodina have made the call to HNK Rijeka. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad3 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Vojvodina 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.