Partizan: police want all contracts from 2020 to 2024
Partizan president Rasim Ljajic confirmed that the Criminal Police Directorate visited the club in Humska, and he responded to a group of former players demanding the board's removal.
The request that reached Humska on Wednesday covers years, not pages: the Criminal Police Directorate wants every purchase and sale contract Partizan signed from 2020 to 2024. Rasim Ljajic, the club’s president, confirmed it to the daily Danas, widening the story we opened earlier about the paperwork behind the transfer of Filip Stevanovic.
What did the police ask for in Humska?
Ljajic publicly confirmed for the first time that police had indeed been at the club, but he declined to explain why.
“It’s true that the Criminal Police Directorate was at the club. I can’t discuss the reason now, because it is part of the investigation.”
Sources differ on the day. Mondo reports that the directorate came to the club on Monday, while Telegraf says it happened on Tuesday. Mondo and B92 note that the documents police want include the 2021 transfer of Filip Stevanovic to Manchester City. The new item arrived on Wednesday, November 4, 2026:
“I can reveal a new piece of information: during the day we received a request to hand over all the contracts concluded from 2020 to 2024. That is, all the purchase and sale contracts from that period.”
Ljajic told Danas that the club had received new directives from the competent authorities. Telegraf writes that Partizan will still have to deliver the contracts, and B92 does not say the papers have already been handed over, so there is no confirmation of that for now.
A 59,000 euro debt and Frank Kanute
On the same occasion Ljajic brought up an older matter. According to him, a debt of 59,000 euros, which had kept Partizan from registering new players, has been paid. It stems from a dispute with Frank Kanute.
The reply to the “Appeal to Save Partizan” group
The second part of the conversation was devoted to the “Appeal to Save Partizan” initiative, led by former player Djordje Tomic, which demands the board’s resignation. Mondo reports that Ljajic claims the group has wanted influence and control at the club from the start, and that it became more active after Sasa Ilic left the club. Ilic, he says, had until then defended the board against such attacks.
Telegraf carries his version of the dispute over money. According to Ljajic, Tomic has a claim dating from his time at Real Oviedo (2000-2003), and a contract that Partizan never had a chance to see allegedly stated that a little over a million should be paid to him through Partizan. The club’s lawyers, Ljajic says, proposed splitting the payment fifty-fifty, and Tomic agreed, only to claim later that someone on the board had promised him an 80 to 20 split in his favor. Ljajic’s conclusion:
“So this is a personal war that Tomic is waging now, and Sasa Ilic and the rest are just excuses.”
In the statements we had before us, Tomic did not address this claim.
Ljajic also says he is ready to go, on a condition he set himself:
“We want someone better than us to come. Whoever wants to invest their own money, we will step aside that very moment. We have stabilized the club to a certain extent, but not with our money, rather through responsible management, saving and selling players.”
The board, in other words, explains the club’s condition through saving and player sales, not through investing its own money.
Who could lead the club?
On the other side stands Tomic’s account, which he gave to Danas and which Sportska centrala carried. The initiative names Ivan Golac, Mateja Kezman and Sava Milosevic as possible candidates for president, but the decision, Tomic says, belongs to the Partizan Assembly, where former players would make up 35 percent of the delegates. Tomic explains what set the initiative in motion:
“The breaking point for our reaction was Sasa Ilic’s departure.”
Both sides cite Ilic’s departure as the turning point, and each reads it differently: Ljajic as the moment attacks on the board grew louder, Tomic as the moment former players no longer wanted to stay silent.
Why police want contracts from those five years, Ljajic did not say, because, as he puts it, that is part of the investigation.
