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The dugout8 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Diosgyor may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
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
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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lamin Colley 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Diosgyor are still strangers to each other
9 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
Nothing to show for Bogdán Bánhegyi's season away
0 appearances, 0 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.
Market8 Mar 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 Aleksandar Popović.
Market8 Mar 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Yaroslav Medvedev signs something — a contract at Diosgyor or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout8 Mar 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.
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Market1 Mar 2027
Only the photograph left for Ágoston Bényei
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ágoston Bényei will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Diosgyor the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Mar 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Danilo Mitrović 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lamin Colley was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market1 Mar 2027
Nothing to show for Bogdán Bánhegyi's season away
0 appearances, 0 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Diosgyor than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Squad1 Mar 2027
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Diosgyor has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Market1 Mar 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 dugout1 Mar 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.
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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
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ákos Kecskés is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
“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 25 say he has earned the hearing.
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
The name of Ivan Šaponjić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Diosgyor say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad22 Feb 2027
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Diosgyor has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Market15 Feb 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Diosgyor people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad15 Feb 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lamin Colley was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Persik have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad15 Feb 2027
21 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad15 Feb 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ante Roguljić signs something — a contract at Diosgyor or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Tijn den Boggende arrives from Utrecht with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
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Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ákos Kecskés was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. MSK Zilina have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market8 Feb 2027
Everyone has stopped pretending: Bekescsaba will make the call about Ágoston Bényei this week. Diosgyor have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
The dugout8 Feb 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Too much change too quickly at Diosgyor
7 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Bilal Faye and Diosgyor agree another 3 years.
Squad8 Feb 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Yaroslav Medvedev signs something — a contract at Diosgyor or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Álex Vallejo 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 Álex Vallejo has written the date down.
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Squad1 Feb 2027
Lamin Colley breaks a bone — 15 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 15 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Window shuts: 5 in, 1 out at Diosgyor
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 5 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market1 Feb 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Diosgyor have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Diosgyor
Yaroslav Medvedev 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ákos Kecskés was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets1 Feb 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Derick Ogbu and Diosgyor agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Utrecht 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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Squad25 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Lamin Colley out for 22 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Ágoston Bényei has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Diosgyor they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Diosgyor
Danilo Mitrović 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Anderson Esiti falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets25 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Fehervar have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Szilárd Bokros. The answer from Diosgyor has not changed — yet.
Loan watch25 Jan 2027
“I watch every Diosgyor game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Haladas runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout25 Jan 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.
The dugout25 Jan 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.
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Squad18 Jan 2027
30 days out for Lamin Colley 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Danilo Mitrović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Jan 2027
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Sergio Macías gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Sergio Macías has just signed for Diosgyor, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Diosgyor asked and Legia 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 targets18 Jan 2027
Benfica 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 dugout18 Jan 2027
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.
The dugout18 Jan 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.
Market18 Jan 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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Squad11 Jan 2027
Lamin Colley breaks a bone — 37 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 37 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market11 Jan 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Diosgyor people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Diosgyor
Álex Vallejo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Ange Chiesa arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Ange Chiesa has, at Diosgyor, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Ákos Kecskés falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Diosgyor asked and Rodina 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 dugout11 Jan 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Legia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Diosgyor have made the call to Ujpest. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Squad4 Jan 2027
Lamin Colley breaks a bone — 44 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The deal with Paksi 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.
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
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anderson Esiti 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Bekescsaba 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Honved: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Zétény Varga named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Zétény Varga is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gergő Holdampf, and the manager let it.
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Squad28 Dec 2026
52 days out for Lamin Colley 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.
Match28 Dec 2026
Diosgyor finish in position 7
29 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Diosgyor did not have in the autumn.
Squad28 Dec 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Ákos Kecskés falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match26 Dec 2026
The run is over for Diosgyor
4 matches without defeat, and then Honved. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
The pass was always on for Zétény Varga
Chances created: 13. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.
The dugout28 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.
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Squad21 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Lamin Colley out for 59 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Nobody wants to play Diosgyor right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ákos Kecskés is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match19 Dec 2026
Three points for Diosgyor, 1‑0 the final word against Fehervar in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
The afternoon belonged to Máté Sajbán
A mark of 7.90, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Dominik Fiola kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Zétény Varga, 20, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Diosgyor would like this to lead.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 13 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
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Squad14 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Lamin Colley out for 67 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Diosgyor cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad14 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Anderson Esiti falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
At 20 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Vasas made Diosgyor work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Ivan Šaponjić at his very best
Marked 8.28. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Diosgyor.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“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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Squad7 Dec 2026
Lamin Colley breaks a bone — 74 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Danilo Mitrović 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ákos Kecskés was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Álex Vallejo 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Paksi made Diosgyor work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Ante Roguljić at his very best
Marked 8.00. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Diosgyor.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Bence Babos is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Bence Babos has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Dominik Fiola on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
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Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Lamin Colley out for 81 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
The 86th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Máté Sajbán decided nobody was going anywhere. Debrecen had no time left to answer.
Match28 Nov 2026
The drought breaks for Diosgyor
9 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Debrecen were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad30 Nov 2026
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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Ákos Kecskés falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match28 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Máté Sajbán. 1‑0 against Debrecen, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Haladas to sit and watch. I want to come back to Diosgyor and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 88% of everything Diosgyor earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
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Squad23 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Lamin Colley out for 89 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
9 matches without a win for Diosgyor
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Diosgyor are no longer polite ones.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Danilo Mitrović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Anderson Esiti falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout23 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Haladas will be the happier side with the point.
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Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Lamin Colley out for 97 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
8 matches without a win for Diosgyor
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Diosgyor are no longer polite ones.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Diosgyor
Álex Vallejo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ákos Kecskés falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“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.
Match14 Nov 2026
A 1‑1 draw with MTK Budapest leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout16 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.” Dominik Fiola chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad16 Nov 2026
One booking too many, and Ákos Kecskés sits out. Diosgyor lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
105 days out for Lamin Colley 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ákos Kecskés is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match7 Nov 2026
A bad afternoon for Diosgyor against Ujpest
0‑2 to Ujpest, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
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.
Market9 Nov 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Roland Dibusz 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Attila Bese is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. 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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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Lamin Colley breaks a bone — 113 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 113 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match31 Oct 2026
6 matches without a win for Diosgyor
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Diosgyor are no longer polite ones.
Squad2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anderson Esiti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Haladas to sit and watch. I want to come back to Diosgyor and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
A goal on 89 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 7.91 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Diosgyor had the best player on the pitch.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager has not finished forgetting Ákos Kecskés's mistake
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Player ratings
Wrong net for Zétény Varga
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Boardroom
Wages eat 88% of everything Diosgyor earn
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Lamin Colley out for 122 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Diosgyor may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match24 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Danilo Mitrović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ákos Kecskés falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Csaba Szatmári
“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.
Match24 Oct 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Dominik Fiola was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Diosgyor dressing room was either.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
131 days out for Lamin Colley 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
There were 8 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Yaroslav Medvedev is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Diosgyor
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Diosgyor are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Yaroslav Medvedev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ferencvaros left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout19 Oct 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 1‑2 Dominik Fiola left the room before anybody could ask which.
Market19 Oct 2026
“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 dugout19 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.
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
138 days out for Lamin Colley 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.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Danilo Mitrović 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 Oct 2026
Anderson Esiti falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match10 Oct 2026
Honved left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Janos Botka is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Oct 2026
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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Zoltán Medgyes
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Anderson Esiti pops up at the right end — 7.83
7.83, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Diosgyor
Danilo Mitrović 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 Oct 2026
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ákos Kecskés is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ágoston Bényei, 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
10 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.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Haladas to sit and watch. I want to come back to Diosgyor and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Match3 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Fehervar leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ákos Kecskés falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match26 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Diosgyor against Vasas
0‑2 to Vasas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Bence Babos beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A touch he did not mean and a goal that goes in the book with his name against it. Diosgyor will not blame him tonight and he will not need them to.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
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.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Fehervar in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
Match19 Sep 2026
Paksi will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Diosgyor were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A brace, and Lamin Colley takes the afternoon — 8.70
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Lamin Colley provided it, and the 8.70 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.18, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Diosgyor
Álex Vallejo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anderson Esiti 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
“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 dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Dominik Fiola kept it short after the 3‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
Vasas 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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Steady
Squad14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ákos Kecskés was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Balazs Gulacsi 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Three points for Diosgyor, 1‑0 the final word against Debrecen in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zoltán Medgyes, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Sep 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Dominik Fiola on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Looking ahead14 Sep 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.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
16 days out for Zétény Varga 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 17 in, 3 out at Diosgyor
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 17 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Diosgyor
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Diosgyor are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Yaroslav Medvedev 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ákos Kecskés is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Máté Sajbán 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
10 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.
Market7 Sep 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.
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Uneasy
Match29 Aug 2026
The small margins put Diosgyor out
Out, 1‑1 to MTK Budapest, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Zétény Varga breaks a bone — 23 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
A cup hiding at MTK Budapest leaves Diosgyor explaining themselves
0-3, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Milán Pető, 21, steals the show — 7.66
Marked 7.66 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Diosgyor
Danilo Mitrović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets31 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Vasas pay $320.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Zétény Varga out for 31 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.
Market24 Aug 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Diosgyor offered $800.0K; Ferencvaros 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Diosgyor asked and Vasas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Diosgyor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anderson Esiti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Diosgyor against Ujpest
0‑1 to Ujpest, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Steady
Match15 Aug 2026
Bekescsaba will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Diosgyor were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad17 Aug 2026
40 days out for Zétény Varga 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Ante Roguljić takes the afternoon — 8.20
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ante Roguljić provided it, and the 8.20 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Marco Lund has gone, the accounts have $1.9M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Yaroslav Kysil gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Yaroslav Kysil has just signed for Diosgyor, and for once the answer mattered.
Market17 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Yaroslav Medvedev joins from Haladas in a deal worth $1.6M. Now comes the harder part.
Market17 Aug 2026
Business is business: Marco Lund goes
Ferencvaros paid $1.9M 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
No deal for Joel Fameyeh at that price
Diosgyor offered $880.0K; Puskas Akademia 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.
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.
In brief
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Squad
A falling-out at Diosgyor
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The terraces
Diosgyor spend $1.6M on the signing the town wanted
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Squad
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
Zétény Varga breaks a bone — 49 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 49 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Diosgyor have gone to Haladas with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets10 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.
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Marco Lund again, and this time the name on the line is Ferencvaros. Diosgyor are listening politely and promising nothing.
Match8 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bence Dibusz 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. Gabor 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.
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Crisis
Match1 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for Diosgyor
A 0‑3 beating by Ferencvaros was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
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
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anderson Esiti 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 targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shakhtar have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom3 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.
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.