Marco Lund

Central Defender - Ferencvaros
30 May 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Marco Lund

24 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

55 days out for Ágoston Bényei after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Diosgyor will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Ágoston Bényei asks to leave Diosgyor

“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

Puskas Akademia come back empty-handed

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

Market

Diosgyor sell Marco Lund for $1.0M

Marco Lund has left for Ferencvaros in a $1.0M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Words exchanged at Diosgyor

Álex Vallejo 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 Álex Vallejo

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

Market

Krisztian Gazdag steps up from the Diosgyor academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Krisztian Gazdag has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad

A row about effort at Diosgyor

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Csaba Szatmári was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Tamás Fadgyas is in the works

Diosgyor have made the call to MTK Budapest. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

Back issues
21 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Derick Ogbu keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Diosgyor may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ákos Kecskés 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 dugout

Norbert Szalai: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Player ratings

Dominik Kocsis was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

Gábor Megyeri 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.

The dugout

Diosgyor keep their word to Marco Lund

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Match

Point won or two lost for Diosgyor?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Fehervar? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Dávid Gróf

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Honved in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

Market

The Anderson Esiti talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Diosgyor know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

9 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Dominik Kocsis was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Tempers go at Diosgyor

Álex Vallejo 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

Diosgyor count the cost of losing Aboubakar Keïta

15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Ákos Kecskés 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 dugout

No hiding place for Milán Pető

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

Match

Honours even between Diosgyor and Vasas

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Norbert Szalai on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Ivan Šaponjić

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Fehervar in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Aboubakar Keïta

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

7 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Diosgyor sink to position 10

5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match

No end in sight to Diosgyor's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Diosgyor has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Diosgyor turn down Ferencvaros for Marco Lund

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Anderson Esiti 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.

Transfer targets

Diosgyor rebuffed over Kjell Wätjen

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Midtjylland have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Diosgyor promote Roland Nagy from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Roland Nagy has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Match

Debrecen take the points off Diosgyor

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

Ante Roguljić beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Márk Tamás

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

7 Edition

The Ferencvaros Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Ferencvaros run riot against Vasas

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Match

Ferencvaros are top

18 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.

Match

Ferencvaros cannot stop winning

5 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Ferencvaros walk away from Marco Lund

$1.0M was the most the club would pay and Diosgyor were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

A falling-out at Ferencvaros

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

Squad

A row about effort at Ferencvaros

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mariano Gómez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Ferencvaros are at home on the road

3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Market

One of our own: Janos Lisztes joins the Ferencvaros first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Janos Lisztes is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Janos Bese steps up from the Ferencvaros academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Janos Bese has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief

6 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Diosgyor close the window on a squad of their own making

12 in and 0 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.

Match

4 matches without a win for Diosgyor

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Diosgyor are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A row about effort at Diosgyor

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anderson Esiti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Diosgyor rebuffed over Kauã Elias

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shakhtar have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A falling-out at Diosgyor

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

Market

Ferencvaros join the queue for Marco Lund

Add another name to the list: Ferencvaros have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Marco Lund. The answer from Diosgyor has not changed — yet.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ante Roguljić

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Aboubakar Keïta

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Bence Babos is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Bence Babos has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

In brief

6 Edition

The Ferencvaros Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Ferencvaros run riot against Paksi

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

A brace, and Callum O'Dowda takes the afternoon — 9.43

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Callum O'Dowda provided it, and the 9.43 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

A move Moha would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Moha is living that version at Ferencvaros, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match

Ferencvaros make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Ferencvaros have 4 straight wins of it.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 17 signed and 5 gone

That is the business done at Ferencvaros until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Milán Tóth

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

Transfer targets

An offer of $1.0M for Marco Lund

Ferencvaros have gone to Diosgyor 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.

Transfer targets

Ferencvaros make their move for Krisztián Tamás

$250.0K on the table at Ujpest. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Tempers go at Ferencvaros

Mariano Gómez 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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Ante Roguljić beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 34. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

The cup run ends for Diosgyor

0‑0 against MTK Budapest, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

Gábor Megyeri is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Gábor Megyeri: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Market

Ágoston Bényei hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Diosgyor can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Diosgyor rebuffed over Dániel Lukács

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Puskas Akademia have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Diosgyor

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Words exchanged at Diosgyor

Aboubakar Keïta 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

The manager makes an example of Ivan Šaponjić

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

The kick that got away from Peter Ambrose

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

In brief