From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces1 Nov 2027
The mood at Diosgyor has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market1 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Ákos Kecskés 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 Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Márk Mucsányi ran the middle of the pitch — 7.35
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 14 combined actions and a mark of 7.35, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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 dugout1 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Ante Roguljić
“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.
Match30 Oct 2027
At last: Diosgyor win one
5 matches without a win, and then this, against MTK Budapest. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Match30 Oct 2027
Three points for Diosgyor, 1‑0 the final word against MTK Budapest in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Gábor Jurek slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Gábor Jurek is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
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Crisis
Squad25 Oct 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match23 Oct 2027
0‑3 to Ujpest, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match25 Oct 2027
Diosgyor are in real trouble now
Position 11, 8 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market25 Oct 2027
“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.
Match23 Oct 2027
5 matches without a win for Diosgyor
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Diosgyor are no longer polite ones.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Ákos Kecskés 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 dugout25 Oct 2027
Gábor Jurek 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.
Match25 Oct 2027
The half-term report on Diosgyor
Position 11, 8 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
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Crisis
Match16 Oct 2027
No end in sight to Diosgyor's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Diosgyor has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
Match16 Oct 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Laurenz Orgler
“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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Tamás Géringer and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vencel Lajcsik and Diosgyor agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Attila Szalai after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
Dávid Gróf asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
The plan did not have a place for Álex Vallejo
Nobody at Diosgyor is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Oct 2027
16 days out for Patrik Pinte 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Dávid Gróf and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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 dugout11 Oct 2027
Dávid Gróf 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 Diosgyor, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Marko Miljković is on it.
Looking ahead11 Oct 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against ZTE in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Uneasy
The terraces4 Oct 2027
Anger at Diosgyor spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad4 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Patrik Pinte out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Diosgyor will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market4 Oct 2027
Gábor Jurek 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Yohan Croizet-Kollár and Diosgyor agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Oct 2027
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Álex Vallejo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
“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.
Match2 Oct 2027
It needed Máté Sajbán to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Nyíregyháza, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Attila Szalai chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
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Crisis
Squad27 Sep 2027
33 days out for Patrik Pinte 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.
Match27 Sep 2027
Every point is an argument now for Diosgyor
Position 10 and 7 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Ákos Kecskés 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.
Market27 Sep 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad27 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yohan Croizet-Kollár was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Gábor Jurek
“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.
Match25 Sep 2027
Kisvárda left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad27 Sep 2027
200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
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Uneasy
Squad20 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Patrik Pinte out for 40 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Diosgyor will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Words exchanged at Diosgyor
Ákos Kecskés 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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 dugout20 Sep 2027
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.
Market20 Sep 2027
Bence Komlósi is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Diosgyor has been clear about where Bence Komlósi stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Attila Szalai chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
Gábor Jurek 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 Diosgyor, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad13 Sep 2027
Patrik Pinte breaks a bone — 48 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market13 Sep 2027
“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 Diosgyor, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets13 Sep 2027
Diosgyor had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Ludogorets, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Match11 Sep 2027
The drought breaks for Diosgyor
7 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Fehervar were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Ákos Kecskés and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Transfer targets13 Sep 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. ZTE have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match11 Sep 2027
A 2‑0 win over Fehervar, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ákos Kecskés, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad6 Sep 2027
Patrik Pinte breaks a bone — 55 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 55 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Window shuts: 18 in, 12 out at Diosgyor
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 18 arrived, 12 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Ákos Kecskés 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 Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bence Bárdos commits to Diosgyor for another 4 years.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
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.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Álex Vallejo
“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.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
Peter Ambrose gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Peter Ambrose is on it.
Looking ahead6 Sep 2027
Fehervar next, and one man in the Diosgyor dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Aug 2027
Patrik Pinte breaks a bone — 62 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 62 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match25 Aug 2027
The cup run ends for Diosgyor
1‑2 against Kazincbarcika, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match28 Aug 2027
7 matches without a win for Diosgyor
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Diosgyor are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
The deal with Ludogorets is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Diosgyor
Anderson Esiti 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yohan Croizet-Kollár was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ludogorets have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Marked 6.96 on 12 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
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Crisis
Squad23 Aug 2027
Patrik Pinte breaks a bone — 71 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 71 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Noa Mikić: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Diosgyor have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market23 Aug 2027
“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.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
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.
Match21 Aug 2027
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.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Diosgyor offered $750.0K; Szeged-Csanád GA said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Noa Mikić 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 Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match21 Aug 2027
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.
Match21 Aug 2027
Debrecen left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Aug 2027
Patrik Pinte breaks a bone — 78 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 78 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market16 Aug 2027
“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 Diosgyor, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad16 Aug 2027
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Diosgyor had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Ludogorets, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Match14 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Diosgyor
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad16 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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 targets16 Aug 2027
Diosgyor asked and Cagliari said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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Crisis
Squad9 Aug 2027
Patrik Pinte breaks a bone — 85 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 85 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Ákos Kecskés 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 Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
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.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Anderson Esiti ran the middle of the pitch — 6.89
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 12 combined actions and a mark of 6.89, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Match7 Aug 2027
ETO Győr left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Ludogorets 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 dugout9 Aug 2027
Gábor Jurek 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 Diosgyor, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Aug 2027
Patrik Pinte breaks a bone — 92 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 92 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market2 Aug 2027
“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 Diosgyor, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Diosgyor may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Ákos Kecskés 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.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Diosgyor
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Debrecen have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market2 Aug 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Viktor Gulacsi 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.
Market2 Aug 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Balazs Lisztes 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.
Market2 Aug 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tamas Kleinheisler is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Steady
Squad26 Jul 2027
Patrik Pinte breaks a bone — 100 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 100 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Diosgyor had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Ludogorets, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Diosgyor
Ákos Kecskés 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Door shut on Fasson
Diosgyor asked and Lokomotiv Moscow 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 targets26 Jul 2027
Basel 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Diosgyor will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Looking ahead26 Jul 2027
MTK Budapest next, and one man in the Diosgyor dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market26 Jul 2027
Máté Sajbán linked with a move away
The name of Máté Sajbán keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Diosgyor say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
Pressure builds in the Diosgyor boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market19 Jul 2027
“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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Diosgyor have done the hard part with Ludogorets, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Ákos Kecskés and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market19 Jul 2027
Business is business: Gábor Megyeri goes
Nyíregyháza paid $340.0K and Diosgyor took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rosario Central have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Too much change too quickly at Diosgyor
13 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Jul 2027
18 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Diosgyor lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market12 Jul 2027
“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.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Diosgyor had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Ludogorets, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Anderson Esiti and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Diosgyor asked and Debrecen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aboubakar Keïta, and the manager let it.
Market12 Jul 2027
Nyíregyháza are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Diosgyor will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad12 Jul 2027
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Diosgyor are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Market12 Jul 2027
48 months and counting on Gábor Jurek
Still no offer on the table, and Gábor Jurek’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
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Squad5 Jul 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ante Roguljić
25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Diosgyor lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Attila Szalai has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Diosgyor can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Crisis meeting at Diosgyor
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Market5 Jul 2027
“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 Diosgyor, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
The deal with Ludogorets is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at VfL Bochum is saying, and nobody at Diosgyor is enjoying the guessing.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Dávid Gróf 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gábor Jurek and Diosgyor agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yohan Croizet-Kollár was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Squad28 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ante Roguljić
32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Diosgyor lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market28 Jun 2027
“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.
Market28 Jun 2027
Ágoston Bényei has left for Ferencvaros in a $790.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad28 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yohan Croizet-Kollár was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Door shut on Moisés
Diosgyor asked and CSKA Moscow 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 targets28 Jun 2027
A loan enquiry to VfL Bochum: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Szilárd Bokros, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Noa Mikić needs a bigger stage
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Diosgyor know which stage they are at.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
Bence Bárdos 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 Diosgyor, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Squad21 Jun 2027
Ante Roguljić damages knee ligaments — 40 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 40 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom21 Jun 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Diosgyor
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Diosgyor is running low.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
The deal with Sturm Graz is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Ákos Kecskés and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rosario Central have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Máté Sajbán, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
A loan move for Malik Pimpong is in the works
Diosgyor have made the call to Eintracht Frankfurt. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad21 Jun 2027
5 new faces, and Diosgyor are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Nikola Simić has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Diosgyor know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
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Squad14 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ante Roguljić
49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Diosgyor lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Everything agreed with Partizan, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad14 Jun 2027
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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 targets14 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Radnicki Nis have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Márk Tamás 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 Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
A loan move for Noa Mikić is in the works
Diosgyor have made the call to Dinamo Zagreb. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market14 Jun 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Gergő Holdampf has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Diosgyor.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Bence Komlósi
“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.
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Squad7 Jun 2027
56 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Diosgyor lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Attila Szalai has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Diosgyor can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Crisis meeting at Diosgyor
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Budafoki MTE have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Márk Tamás 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
No place for Marco Lund in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Marco Lund has his answer from Diosgyor; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
Ante Roguljić without the man who signed him
Every squad is half players the manager chose and half players he inherited. Ante Roguljić was chosen, the man who chose him has gone, and he starts again from nothing under the next one.
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Squad31 May 2027
64 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Diosgyor lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad31 May 2027
Words exchanged at Diosgyor
Ákos Kecskés 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 dugout31 May 2027
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.
Squad31 May 2027
Zétény Varga 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.
Market31 May 2027
Diosgyor have let the market know Gergő Holdampf can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
The dugout31 May 2027
Bence Babos 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 Diosgyor, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Squad24 May 2027
71 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Diosgyor lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Boardroom24 May 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Diosgyor
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad24 May 2027
Lamin Colley 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 Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 May 2027
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
Market24 May 2027
The Máté Sajbán 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.
The dugout24 May 2027
Bence Babos has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Bence Babos has written the date down.
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Squad17 May 2027
78 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Diosgyor lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad17 May 2027
Ákos Kecskés pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad17 May 2027
Dávid Gróf 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 Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 May 2027
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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 dugout17 May 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market17 May 2027
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.
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Squad10 May 2027
Ante Roguljić damages knee ligaments — 87 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 87 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad10 May 2027
João Victor 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.
Squad10 May 2027
“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 Diosgyor know it.
The dugout10 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Szilárd Bokros, and the manager let it.
The dugout10 May 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout10 May 2027
Bence Bárdos asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Boardroom3 May 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad3 May 2027
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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 dugout3 May 2027
“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.
Market3 May 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Diosgyor, another week without a signature from Bence Bárdos.
Squad3 May 2027
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
The dugout3 May 2027
Bence Bárdos knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Bence Bárdos trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Boardroom26 Apr 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Diosgyor
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Diosgyor is running low.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Milán Pető 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 Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
Ágoston Bényei 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 Diosgyor, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market26 Apr 2027
The Máté Sajbán 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.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
João Victor keeps his manager's vote
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: João Victor plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Squad19 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and João Victor was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Márk Tamás and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Apr 2027
5 new faces, and Diosgyor are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Bence Babos 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 dugout19 Apr 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market19 Apr 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ante Roguljić’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Apr 2027
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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yohan Croizet-Kollár was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market12 Apr 2027
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.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Bence Babos 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 Diosgyor, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Ákos Kecskés has started doing his badges
“I watch sessions differently now. I catch myself thinking about why we are doing the drill.” At 31 that is how nearly every man in a dugout started.
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Uneasy
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Attila Szalai has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Diosgyor can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Diosgyor
Lamin Colley 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
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Uneasy
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
Pressure builds in the Diosgyor boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Dávid Gróf 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 Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and João Victor was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zétény Varga, and the manager let it.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Aboubakar Keïta asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Máté Sajbán has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Máté Sajbán has written the date down.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Mar 2027
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yohan Croizet-Kollár was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Too much change too quickly at Diosgyor
9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bence Babos, and the manager let it.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Peter Ambrose gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Peter Ambrose is on it.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Aboubakar Keïta asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“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 Diosgyor know it.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Uneasy
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yohan Croizet-Kollár commits to Diosgyor for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“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 Diosgyor know it.
Squad8 Mar 2027
João Victor 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Diosgyor
Milán Pető 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
A year in the wrong dressing room for Gábor Megyeri
He went out to keep goal every week and came back with 1 games and 1 of them shut out. Somebody at Diosgyor argued for this move last summer; nobody is arguing for it now.
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Uneasy
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Diosgyor
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Diosgyor is running low.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“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 Diosgyor know it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Anderson Esiti wants one last season at home
Every long career reaches the week the last one is thought about. He would like it to be where he started, and Diosgyor know now that the thought has arrived.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Márk Tamás 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 Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Szilárd Bokros
“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.
Market1 Mar 2027
Nothing to show for Gábor Megyeri's season away
1 appearances, 1 clean sheets, and a goalkeeper no further forward than the day he left. Whether that belongs to him, to the club that borrowed him or to the people who arranged it is the argument Diosgyor will have this month.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Ivan Šaponjić asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Stavros Panagiotou is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.
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Squad22 Feb 2027
Álex Vallejo 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 Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yohan Croizet-Kollár was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Too much change too quickly at Diosgyor
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Peter Ambrose gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Peter Ambrose is on it.
Market22 Feb 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ante Roguljić’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Diosgyor would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“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.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market22 Feb 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Feb 2027
Lamin Colley 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Victor 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.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Partizan have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Stavros Panagiotou and Diosgyor agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad15 Feb 2027
The formation has left Albin Mustafic behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Diosgyor will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Diosgyor. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market15 Feb 2027
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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Peter Ambrose knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Peter Ambrose trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Dávid Gróf 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Stavros Panagiotou has just signed for Diosgyor, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Szeged-Csanád GA wanted more than $11.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yohan Croizet-Kollár was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Diosgyor asked and Stade de Reims said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aboubakar Keïta, and the manager let it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Stavros Panagiotou commits to Diosgyor for another 2 years.
Market8 Feb 2027
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
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Uneasy
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Diosgyor
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Diosgyor may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Diosgyor close the window on a squad of their own making
5 in and 2 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.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Metalist is saying, and nobody at Diosgyor is enjoying the guessing.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Anderson Esiti and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Diosgyor have gone to Szeged-Csanád GA 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
The name of Gergő Holdampf has come up in conversations Diosgyor were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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 targets1 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Widzew Łódź have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Uneasy
Market25 Jan 2027
“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 targets25 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Debrecen have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market25 Jan 2027
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Victor 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Eugene Radionov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Metalist: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Partizan 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Diosgyor are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad25 Jan 2027
No place for Patrik Pinte in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Diosgyor are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Crisis
Match18 Jan 2027
Diosgyor finish in position 8
26 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Market18 Jan 2027
Diosgyor say no — this time
The offer from Ujpest for Marco Lund was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Diosgyor have done the hard part with Vasas, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market18 Jan 2027
The chase for Patrik Pinte ended with $410.0K changing hands and Honved out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yohan Croizet-Kollár was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Diosgyor asked and Rizespor said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Diosgyor
Márk Tamás 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Csaba Szatmári, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Market11 Jan 2027
“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 Diosgyor, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
$410.0K settles it between the clubs for Patrik Pinte
Honved have accepted the money. What Diosgyor do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Diosgyor — 7.56
1 for Ákos Kecskés, marked 7.56, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Market11 Jan 2027
Honved paid $210.0K and Diosgyor took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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 targets11 Jan 2027
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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Márk Tamás 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
A 2‑1 win over Paksi, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Marked 8.14 — 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.
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Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
“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 Diosgyor, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 Jan 2027
7 saves: Dávid Gróf was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Pressure builds in the Diosgyor boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Diosgyor had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Álex Vallejo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Marko Miljković gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Marko Miljković has just signed for Diosgyor, and for once the answer mattered.
Match2 Jan 2027
Diosgyor cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Diosgyor asked and Bekescsaba said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aboubakar Keïta, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Match26 Dec 2026
Nowhere to hide for Diosgyor
0‑4 against Ferencvaros, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad28 Dec 2026
9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Lamin Colley 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 Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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 dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dávid Gróf, and the manager let it.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Nobody left the Diosgyor dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Attila Szalai after 0‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Peter Ambrose has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Diosgyor will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Looking ahead28 Dec 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Lamin Colley’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Diosgyor needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
10 saves: Dávid Gróf was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match19 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Ujpest, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Nobody left the Diosgyor dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Diosgyor
Eugene Radionov 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 dugout21 Dec 2026
The team sheet said everything about Aboubakar Keïta
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Aboubakar Keïta.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“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.
Looking ahead21 Dec 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Ferencvaros in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ákos Kecskés and Diosgyor agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match12 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Lamin Colley. 1‑0 against Debrecen, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad14 Dec 2026
46 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 7.71 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Diosgyor had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zétény Varga, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead14 Dec 2026
A test against the best for Diosgyor
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Ujpest.
Looking ahead14 Dec 2026
Ujpest next, and one man in the Diosgyor dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market14 Dec 2026
The name of Ante Roguljić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Diosgyor say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
The terraces7 Dec 2026
Supporters organise against the Diosgyor board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Anderson Esiti and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yohan Croizet-Kollár was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Diosgyor, and 1 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
Match5 Dec 2026
Three points for Diosgyor, 1‑0 the final word against Kazincbarcika in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.05, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Eugene Radionov and Diosgyor agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Ivan Šaponjić
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Ivan Šaponjić has come out of that comparison in the side, and Diosgyor have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Steady
Match30 Nov 2026
Diosgyor are in real trouble now
Position 10, 16 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Márk Tamás and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Eugene Radionov and Diosgyor agree another 1 years.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
The afternoon belonged to Lamin Colley
A mark of 7.68, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Kisvárda leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Half-satisfied: Attila 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Bence Bárdos
“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.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Yohan Croizet-Kollár and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Csaba Szatmári, and the manager let it.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Marked 7.76. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Match21 Nov 2026
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 dugout23 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Attila Szalai chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Máté Sajbán knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Máté Sajbán trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
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.
Market23 Nov 2026
Máté Sajbán linked with a move away
The name of Máté Sajbán keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Diosgyor say nothing, which says plenty.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 8. 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.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ákos Kecskés 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Bence Babos
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Márk Tamás knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Márk Tamás trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market16 Nov 2026
The name of Ante Roguljić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Diosgyor say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.74, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Lamin Colley and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yohan Croizet-Kollár was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match8 Nov 2026
Three points for Diosgyor, 2‑1 the final word against MTK Budapest in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Diosgyor, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Attila Szalai, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Zétény Varga 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Zétény Varga has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Diosgyor will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“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.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Diosgyor, and 4 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
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 Attila Szalai left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Eugene Radionov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Lamin Colley
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Lamin Colley has come out of that comparison in the side, and Diosgyor have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
A promise honoured at Diosgyor
Something was said to Gergő Holdampf and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market2 Nov 2026
The name of Ivan Šaponjić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Diosgyor say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.59, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A one-man rearguard from Dávid Gróf
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
The game went through Ante Roguljić — 6.88
Marked 6.88 on 14 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Lamin Colley’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Diosgyor.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Milán Pető
At 21 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“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.
Match26 Oct 2026
The half-term report on Diosgyor
Position 9, 11 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
Squad26 Oct 2026
7 new faces, and Diosgyor are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Crisis
Match19 Oct 2026
Diosgyor are in real trouble now
Position 11, 8 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Diosgyor
Anderson Esiti 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yohan Croizet-Kollár was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dávid Gróf, and the manager let it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Nyíregyháza in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market19 Oct 2026
The name of Ante Roguljić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Diosgyor say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
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.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Márk Tamás 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 Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Diosgyor, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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 dugout12 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Máté Sajbán’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Diosgyor needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Ágoston Bényei knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ágoston Bényei trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Match3 Oct 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Puskas Akademia, and it could have been more.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.79, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Lamin Colley, 33, rolls back the years — 8.12
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.12 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Diosgyor
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Máté Sajbán, and the manager let it.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
103% of the income goes out in wages at Diosgyor
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Eugene Radionov commits to Diosgyor for another 1 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Milán Pető
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Milán Pető has come out of that comparison in the side, and Diosgyor have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Attila Szalai on a 3‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
1‑4 to Ferencvaros, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Anderson Esiti 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Csaba Szatmári, and the manager let it.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
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 1‑4 defeat, delivered by Attila Szalai to a room that had heard them before.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Diosgyor are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A long afternoon for Dávid Gróf
Beaten 4 times, with 3 saves for company. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines on their record whoever actually caused them, which is the quiet injustice of the job.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Puskas Akademia in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
11 saves: Dávid Gróf was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match21 Sep 2026
Diosgyor are in real trouble now
Position 11, 5 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market21 Sep 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 Diosgyor, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Milán Pető at 21 — 7.61
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Milán Pető did not need any: 7.61, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Diosgyor
Lamin Colley 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Márk Tamás, and the manager let it.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Ujpest leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market14 Sep 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 Diosgyor, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match12 Sep 2026
It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Diosgyor asked and Andorra said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match12 Sep 2026
Three points for Diosgyor, 1‑0 the final word against Debrecen in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Diosgyor, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad14 Sep 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 Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 7.67. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Uneasy
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 13 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at Diosgyor 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Diosgyor asked and AZ said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Zétény Varga
“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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Debrecen next, and one man in the Diosgyor dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Crisis
Match26 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Diosgyor
1‑3 against Mezőkövesd, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match29 Aug 2026
Nowhere to hide for Diosgyor
0‑3 against Kazincbarcika, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Diosgyor
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Diosgyor asked and Panathinaikos said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
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 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Attila Szalai to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Milán Pető turns it into his own net
Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. Diosgyor deserved better, and so did he.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Nürnberg 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.
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Uneasy
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Diosgyor's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Diosgyor has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. PAOK have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Márk Tamás 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 dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Márk Tamás, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Dinis Rodrigues is in the works
Diosgyor have made the call to Napoli. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Attila Szalai was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Diosgyor dressing room was either.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Milán Pető runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match15 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by ETO Győr, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$960.0K was the most the club would pay and ZTE 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Milán Pető 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Diosgyor dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Borussia Dortmund 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.
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Crisis
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Diosgyor have gone to Puskas Akademia 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $471.5K — a club that wants Pál Helmich enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$440.0K was the most the club would pay and Ujpest 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Anderson Esiti 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Istvan Gazdag is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Peter Botka 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Roland Lang 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Botka 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.
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Crisis
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ante Roguljić and Diosgyor agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Lamin Colley 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 Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yohan Croizet-Kollár was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ajax have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Dávid Gróf
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Kazincbarcika have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Gábor Megyeri. The answer from Diosgyor has not changed — yet.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.