Marked for André Teixeira
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Malomo Taofeeq 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 102% of everything Dinamo City earn
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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 58. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match26 Oct 2026
15 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market26 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dinamo City, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Dejvi Bregu 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.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 1‑0 win over Bylis, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Malomo Taofeeq 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Dejvi Bregu at his very best
Marked 8.17. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Dinamo City.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Lorran Lorran
“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.