Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason DAC Dunajska Streda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nathan Udvaros will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around DAC Dunajska Streda the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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.
13 goals in 29 games at Austria Klagenfurt — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at DAC Dunajska Streda updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Filip Blažek 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.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. DAC Dunajska Streda know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
28 points from position 6. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. DAC Dunajska Streda will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
“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.
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.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; DAC Dunajska Streda are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
“I watch every DAC Dunajska Streda game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Inter Bratislava runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
0 appearances, 0 clean sheets, and a goalkeeper no further forward than the day he left. Whether that belongs to him, to the club that borrowed him or to the people who arranged it is the argument DAC Dunajska Streda will have this month.
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MarketEymard Bationo returns from a loan that gave him nothing
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason DAC Dunajska Streda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
“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.
Samsondin Ouro 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giorgi Gagua 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.
“I watch every DAC Dunajska Streda game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at AS Trencin runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
0 appearances, 0 clean sheets, and a goalkeeper no further forward than the day he left. Whether that belongs to him, to the club that borrowed him or to the people who arranged it is the argument DAC Dunajska Streda will have this month.
The loan was meant to give him football. 4 games and 0 goals later he is back at DAC Dunajska Streda no further forward, and everybody involved will explain why it was not their doing.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. DAC Dunajska Streda know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Žan Trontelj 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.
“I watch every DAC Dunajska Streda game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Stará Ľubovňa runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and DAC Dunajska Streda will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Tsotne Kapanadze trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at DAC Dunajska Streda has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Samsondin Ouro signs something — a contract at DAC Dunajska Streda or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
DAC Dunajska Streda opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Tsotne Kapanadze stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anton Sloboda was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Attila Németh 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.
Stará Ľubovňa have made the call to DAC Dunajska Streda. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. DAC Dunajska Streda have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tatran Liptovský Mikuláš have kept their man, and DAC Dunajska Streda go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Giorgi Gagua 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.
“I watch every DAC Dunajska Streda game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Stará Ľubovňa runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at DAC Dunajska Streda, and 0 appearances in 18 say he has earned the hearing.
A 1‑0 win over Tatran Prešov, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Karol Strelec could afford to be generous.
7 goals in 17 games at Austria Klagenfurt — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at DAC Dunajska Streda updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Andreas Gruber signs something — a contract at DAC Dunajska Streda or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Mikkel Boye did not need any: 9.82, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Two goals and a mark of 8.20 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 15 goals between Stará Ľubovňa and Slovan Bratislava U21, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Marián Šmatlák has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Juraj Chvátal 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giorgi Gagua was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“I did not go to Stará Ľubovňa to sit and watch. I want to come back to DAC Dunajska Streda and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 14 matches say the rest.
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Juraj Chvátal’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and DAC Dunajska Streda needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at DAC Dunajska Streda. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
FC Košice left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Giorgi Gagua 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.
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.
12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
“I did not go to Stará Ľubovňa to sit and watch. I want to come back to DAC Dunajska Streda and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 10 matches say the rest.
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Two goals and a mark of 8.75 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Taras Kacharaba 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.
Slovan Bratislava next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Žan Trontelj was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.26. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
“I watch every DAC Dunajska Streda game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Stará Ľubovňa runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Karol Strelec could afford to be generous.
“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.
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.
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.
Add another name to the list: Stará Ľubovňa have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Attila Németh. The answer from DAC Dunajska Streda has not changed — yet.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. DAC Dunajska Streda have kept their man, and Stará Ľubovňa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dominik Šnajder and Stará Ľubovňa agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Tomas Hrosovsky after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Stará Ľubovňa have made the call to DAC Dunajska Streda. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Stará Ľubovňa have made the call to DAC Dunajska Streda. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Inter Bratislava.