Jovan Milosevic Joins SC Braga After Stuttgart Exit

Jovan Milosevic’s Stuttgart chapter is over. SC Braga have stepped in to offer the 21-year-old a fresh start – and handed VfB a sizeable profit in the process.

The Portuguese club confirmed the deal on Wednesday evening, tying the Serbian striker down to a five-year contract running until 2031. It’s an ambitious move from a side intent on establishing itself as a permanent fixture in Europe.

Braga will pay up to nine million euros including bonuses.

For Stuttgart, the numbers tell their own story. VfB had brought Milosevic in from Vojvodina Novi Sad in 2023 for around 1.5 million euros. One year, a handful of appearances and several loans later, they are now looking at a fee roughly six times their original outlay. For a club preparing for the Champions League, that is valuable room to manoeuvre.

The sporting story in Germany, though, never really got going. Milosevic’s obvious talent never quite translated into a role at VfB. Over three years, he managed just six competitive games for the Swabians. The pattern became familiar: promise in training, no real pathway into the starting XI, and then another loan.

From February 2024, he was effectively gone for good. First came a spell at FC St. Gallen in Switzerland, then a return to his homeland with Partizan Belgrade. Most recently he landed at Werder Bremen for half a season, trying to prove he could handle the Bundesliga on a weekly basis.

At Bremen he finally left a clearer mark: three goals in 13 appearances for SVW. Respectable, encouraging, but not enough to change minds back in Stuttgart. When he reported back after the season, Sebastian Hoeneß had already made his stance clear – Milosevic was not part of his plans. With a contract at VfB running until 2029, the club shifted into seller mode and started hunting for a permanent solution.

They found it in Braga, but not without late drama.

Udinese Calcio, the Serie A stalwart, tried to hijack the move at the last moment. Bild reported that the Italians made a push to lure Milosevic away from Portugal just as the deal seemed close. Stuttgart and Braga held their nerve. By Wednesday morning, an agreement between the German and Portuguese clubs was sealed. Udinese were too late.

Now Milosevic heads to a side that finished fourth in the Portuguese top flight last season and expects to be playing on Thursdays. Braga still need to navigate the Conference League play-offs against Austria Vienna to reach the league phase, but European football is very much part of the pitch that convinced the Serbian forward.

Braga have not exactly hidden their interest either. The club had been working on the transfer for weeks. Coach Carlos Vicens is described as a firm admirer of Milosevic’s game: a tall, mobile striker who can finish and link play, still raw but with room to grow.

He will not walk into a guaranteed starting spot. Far from it. The battle at centre-forward is intense. Former Barcelona prospect Pau Victor is already in the squad, and Jonas Wind has arrived on a free from Wolfsburg after VfL’s relegation. Both bring pedigree, both expect minutes.

So Milosevic swaps the stagnation of Stuttgart for a different kind of challenge: a club that really wants him, but also a dressing room where nothing will be handed to him.

If he can finally turn potential into production in Braga’s colours, this move will be remembered as the point where a drifting career found its course.