Bence Babos

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Diosgyor
7 Feb 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Bence Babos

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The Diosgyor Courier

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Diosgyor close the window on a squad of their own making

1 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

A falling-out at Diosgyor

Uroš Ignjatović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Dominik Kocsis

Diosgyor asked and Debrecen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Derick Ogbu stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Derick Ogbu and Diosgyor agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

Diosgyor ask about Benedek Murka

A loan enquiry to Fehervar: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

Diosgyor try to borrow Botond Vajda

Debrecen have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

Blendi Idrizi knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Blendi Idrizi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

A promotion for Oleksandr Saputin

Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Oleksandr Saputin has moved up it.

The dugout

Bence Babos 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.

In brief

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26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Joel Fameyeh scores twice — 8.73

Two goals and a mark of 8.73 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

The dugout

Bence Babos: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Diosgyor have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at Diosgyor

Joel Fameyeh 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Dávid Gróf

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dávid Gróf, and the manager let it.

Match

Diosgyor caught on 96 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Puskas Akademia scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Álex Vallejo

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Diosgyor told Álex Vallejo something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Diosgyor

13 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Match

Honours even between Diosgyor and Puskas Akademia

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ante Roguljić

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief