Lorent Tolaj

Striker - Plymouth Argyle
31 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Lorent Tolaj

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The Plymouth Argyle Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Sam Hayman out for 21 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Plymouth Argyle will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

No end in sight to Plymouth Argyle's wait for a win

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

Match

The goals have deserted Plymouth Argyle

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Plymouth Argyle can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Late improvement for Brendan Wiredu

At 26 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Match

A bad afternoon for Plymouth Argyle against Barnsley

0‑1 to Barnsley, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mikael Doka

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

Squad

Nathanael Ogbeta signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nathanael Ogbeta commits to Plymouth Argyle for another 3 years.

Squad

Joe Ralls in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Plymouth Argyle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 David Carter left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

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The Plymouth Argyle Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Joe Edwards 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 Plymouth Argyle can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Nehemiah Oriola

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Plymouth Argyle have done the hard part with Brighton, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

Nottingham Forest tell Plymouth Argyle: Steven Benda is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

A bad afternoon for Plymouth Argyle against Doncaster Rovers

0‑1 to Doncaster Rovers, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Lorent Tolaj reaches 100 appearances

100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by David Carter to a room that had heard them before.

Transfer targets

Plymouth Argyle ask about Roko Baturina

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

Player ratings

Nathanael Ogbeta was the difference for Plymouth Argyle

Marked 7.11. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Market

Still no ink between Plymouth Argyle and Simone Giordano

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Plymouth Argyle, another week without a signature from Simone Giordano.

In brief

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The Plymouth Argyle Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Mainz 05 come back empty-handed

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

Market

Bromley join the queue for Luca Ashby-Hammond

Add another name to the list: Bromley have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Luca Ashby-Hammond. The answer from Plymouth Argyle has not changed — yet.

Squad

Joe Ralls stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Joe Ralls and Plymouth Argyle agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Plymouth Argyle

Joe Ralls 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.

Transfer targets

Plymouth Argyle ask about Oumar Diakité

A loan enquiry to Stade de Reims: 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

Plymouth Argyle try to borrow Gustaf Nilsson

Club Brugge 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

Murphy Cooper knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Plymouth Argyle, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

No place for Joe Edwards in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Joe Edwards has his answer from Plymouth Argyle; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Squad

A wage question at Plymouth Argyle

Murphy Cooper has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.

In brief