Soumaïla Diabaté

Defensive Midfielder - Red Bull Salzburg
13 Feb 2027
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Marked for Soumaïla Diabaté

9 Edition

The Red Bull Salzburg Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

A defender's afternoon for Dominik Schmid

Defensive actions: 29. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Red Bull Salzburg

Maurits Kjærgaard 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Haris Tabaković falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The terraces28 Sep 2026

The crowd has taken to Moussa Yeo

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match26 Sep 2026

Moussa Yeo the difference as Red Bull Salzburg beat Mattersburg

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Moussa Yeo. 1‑0 against Mattersburg, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad28 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Orlando Gill

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

In brief

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The Red Bull Salzburg Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Business is business: Karim Konaté goes

Borussia Dortmund paid $11.0M and Red Bull Salzburg took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Rui Patrício keeps Red Bull Salzburg in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market10 Aug 2026

Pro Patria come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Red Bull Salzburg did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market10 Aug 2026

Yorbe Vertessen wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Red Bull Salzburg hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Maurits Kjærgaard signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Maurits Kjærgaard and Red Bull Salzburg agree another 5 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Red Bull Salzburg

Maurits Kjærgaard 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Maurits Kjærgaard 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

48 months and counting on Dominik Schmid

Still no offer on the table, and Dominik Schmid’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Soumaïla Diabaté was immovable

15 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

In brief