The Serbian League Off-Season Thread

Here is a player that is leaving Red Star Belgrade after coming from Scotland...

Press Release from jadransport: After just one season at Crvena Zvezda since his return from Scotland, Dragan Mladenovic is already leaving the Marakana. The 30-year-old has successfully ended talks with Incheon United, and signed a 2-year-contract with the South Korean top-flight outfit.


Leaving the Marakana for the second time
This is the second time that Mladenovic is to leave Crvena Zvezda since his arrival in 2002 from FK Zemun. The former Serbo-Montenegrin international first left the "Crveno-Beli" in 2004, and joined FC Glasgow Rangers for a sum of 1.5M EUR. However, he failed to make a big impact in Scotland, and returned to Belgrade at the beginning of the 2005/06 season. In the past year, he made 17 appearances for the Belgrade giant, scoring 3 goals, and helping Crvena Zvezda win the double crown under Walter Zenga. Previously, in the period between 2002 and 2004 he made 51 appearances for Zvezda, and scored 9 goals. He was also capped 17 times by the national team.

Stepping into Agic's place at Incheon
From first impressions, it appears that Mladenovic will step into Jasmin Agic's position when he arrives at Incheon. The Croatian left the club this summer, and has gone back home to play for Dinamo Zagreb. The Serb should slot into the side quite easily and it seems he has made a good move by signing for the Koreans. Mladenovic will also have some company from his native Serbia, as former Partizan striker Dzenan Radoncic has already been at Incheon for the past three years.

New Team Picture in new Nike Kits:

The laterst draws for European competition have gotten us tough draws:

Champions League: Crvena Zvezda/Cork City vs. AC Milan

Uefa Cup: Partizan Belgrade vs NK Maribor, OFK Belgrade vs. AS Auxerre

Some time considered one of the best Serbian midfielders of his generation, Branko Boskovic has left Paris Saint-Germain in search of a new club. After being one fo the best players for Red Star Belgrade in the 2002/03 season PSG signed him to a three year contract. Following a largely uneventful tenure at PSG he has moved on after he was deemed surplus to requirements by the PSG board. I wish him well and hope he finds a new club...

Simon Vuckevic has recently been linked with London Premiership side Fulham FC...

Although he has had recent discipline problems at Saturn as the coach has demoted him to the reserves for the time being. Weiss claims that Simon has had an irregular attitude towards training after having some 3-4 really good performences on the pitch as of late. Let's hope he gets better.

Partizan Belgrade make a new/former signing from Cadiz CF...

Jadransport.org:"Desperate for some real firepower in their attack, Partizan officials made an offer to Cadiz striker Nenad Mirosavljevic to come back to Serbia from his two-year-spell in Spain. The 28-year-old accepted the deal, and signed a contract with the Serbian runners-up in Belgrade this Tuesday.


Mirosavljevic pledges his loyalty until 2009
The former FK Smederevo striker, who spent five years in the Medieval, arrived in the Serbian capital where he signed a three-year contract with Partizan. He will wear number 30, and he will probably make it to the "Crno-Beli" first eleven.

Solid goal scoring career
Mirosavljevic started his career at Proleter Zrenjanin in 1996. Until 2000, when he moved to Smederevo (FK Sartid), he scored a total of 27 goals in 102 games. From then on he was a member of Smederevo's great generation, becoming a club that almost succeeded in challenging Crvena Zvezda and Partizan, before its downfall in recent years. For the "Oklopnici", Mirosavljevic made 118 appearances in the championship and scored 59 goals, also winning the National Cup.

For the past two years he has played for Spanish outfit Cadiz. At Ramón de Carranza stadium he didn't really make an outstanding impression, playing just 37 league games and scoring 8 goals."