The Roda Post
Match10 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Roda's wait for a win
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Roda has to find a result from somewhere.
Market12 Oct 2026
Renan Oliveira asks to leave Roda
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Koen Jansen at Roda
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Koen Jansen is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Mats Deijl 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 Roda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gaoussou Diarra 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Renan Oliveira wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Roda know it.
Match10 Oct 2026
Excelsior take the points off Roda
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
Roda supporters have found a favourite in Gaoussou Diarra
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Gaoussou Diarra 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A masterclass from Gaoussou Diarra
Marked 8.70 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Player ratings Jérôme Déom runs at them all day
- Player ratings Jack Cooper-Love leaves them behind him
- Player ratings Daniel Lajud never got going