Alex Payares

Goalkeeper - Debrecen
3 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Alex Payares

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The Debrecen Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Debrecen come up short in Europe

0‑2 away to the standard of AGF. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.

Squad

Tempers go at Debrecen

Ádám Lang 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Patrik Demjén

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

Match

György Komáromi sends Debrecen past Ujpest

It finished 1‑0, and it was György Komáromi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Debrecen.

Squad

Words at Debrecen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fran Manzanara 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Dominik Kocsis

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Víctor Camarasa left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Víctor Camarasa will call it something else in private.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to György Komáromi

7.91, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Debrecen had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Player ratings

The referee tires of Fran Manzanara

Fouls conceded: 8. Some of it was commitment and some of it was frustration, and the free-kick count did not distinguish between the two.

In brief

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The Debrecen Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Đorđe Gordić

36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Debrecen lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Debrecen tear Honved apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Honved, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

Balázs Dzsudzsák, 39, rolls back the years — 8.02

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.02 at 39, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Bence Batik asks to leave Debrecen

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Debrecen get their man

The chase for Milán Szekszárdi ended with $1.0M changing hands and Paksi out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Soma Szuhodovszki

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Debrecen

Patrik Demjén 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.

Squad

Alex Payares gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Alex Payares has just signed for Debrecen, and for once the answer mattered.

The terraces

Debrecen spend $1.0M on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $1.0M for Milán Szekszárdi, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

In brief