Marked for Andreas Gruber
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Daniel Kaštánek damages knee ligaments — 112 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 112 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market24 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and DAC Dunajska Streda did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.79 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with Podbrezova; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Match22 Aug 2026
2‑3 to MFK Ruzomberok, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Petržalka have kept their man, and DAC Dunajska Streda go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at DAC Dunajska Streda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simen Juklerød 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Žan Trontelj gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market24 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. DAC Dunajska Streda have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
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Upbeat
Market10 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Slovan Bratislava had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.47, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$1.3M settles it between the clubs for Róbert Polievka
MTK Budapest have accepted the money. What DAC Dunajska Streda do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.32 for the rest of it.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer from KFC Komárno for Karol Blaško 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $45.5K — a club that wants Andrei Gabriele Florea enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andreas Gruber and DAC Dunajska Streda agree another 3 years.
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 DAC Dunajska Streda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
DAC Dunajska Streda have gone to MSK Zilina with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
Sydney FC come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and DAC Dunajska Streda did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The offer went to MTK Budapest this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Aljaž Ivačič and DAC Dunajska Streda agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ammar Ramadan 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Eymard Bationo has come up in conversations DAC Dunajska Streda were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Samsondin Ouro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Aljaž Ivačič gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at DAC Dunajska Streda can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.