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.
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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ante Roguljić 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.
Diosgyor asked and Baltika said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
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.
“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 The request is on a desk at Diosgyor, and it is not being withdrawn.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Artem Somka has just signed for Diosgyor, and for once the answer mattered.
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.
Diosgyor offered $480.0K; Ujpest 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.
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ante Roguljić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Bekescsaba scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
In brief
Transfer targetsA loan move for Georgy Gongadze is in the works
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.
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
The offer went to Ujpest this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.
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.
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 board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Jablonec keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Sergio Macías has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
4 saves does not settle the argument about whose fault it was, and the argument will run all week. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines whoever caused them.
The shirt still fits. Benjámin Cseke is back at Diosgyor, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Diosgyor is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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.
In brief
MatchPeter Ambrose among the goals in a wild afternoon
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 clubs have shaken hands with Vasas; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
“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.
Diosgyor offered $800.0K; Ujpest 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.
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.
Squad26 Jul 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.
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.
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.
“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 fee is $1.2M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Paksi drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Diosgyor have gone to Ujpest 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.
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 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 system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
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 clubs have shaken hands with Paksi; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Rostov keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
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 offer went to Fehervar this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
The shirt still fits. Miron Mucsányi is back at Diosgyor, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
The fee is $360.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Bekescsaba drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
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.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aleksandar Popović and Diosgyor agree another 4 years.
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 fee is $480.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Vasas drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
The offer went to Ujpest this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
The shirt still fits. Dániel Póser is back at Diosgyor, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
At 29 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ferencvaros have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
$30.0K settles it between the clubs for Dániel Póser
Debrecen 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.
$1.8M was the most the club would pay and Fehervar 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.
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.
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
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.
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 Aboubakar Keïta has written the date down.
$1.8M on the table at Fehervar. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
The fee is $1.0M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Paksi drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. MTK Budapest have kept their man, and Diosgyor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Puskas Akademia pay $820.0K, 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.
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.
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.
Diosgyor have made the call to Ferencvaros. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
“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 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.
The offer from Puskas Akademia for Anderson Esiti 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.
Diosgyor asked and Fehervar said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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.
Squad7 Jun 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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Zoltán Medgyes trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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
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.
Lamin Colley 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.
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.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ivan Šaponjić signs something — a contract at Diosgyor or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The language is arriving, the jokes are landing, and there is somebody at the next peg to talk to. None of it appears in a scouting report and all of it shows up on the pitch.
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Ákos Kecskés has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
In brief
MatchNothing left to play for but pride at Diosgyor
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 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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
Squad26 Apr 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.
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.
“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.
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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Lamin Colley 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.
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.
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
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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Csaba Szatmári trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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.
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.
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Diosgyor have no good answer.
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.
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ágoston Bényei commits to Diosgyor for another 3 years.
Squad5 Apr 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
9 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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Zoltán Medgyes trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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 clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Diosgyor is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
“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.
Squad29 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.
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.
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 Aboubakar Keïta has written the date down.
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.
Squad22 Mar 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.
“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.
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.
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager plants his flag on Ivan Šaponjić
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Diosgyor will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
Where he used to play does most of his talking for him at Diosgyor. The room defers to it, the kids study it, and the only thing that can puncture it is a bad month.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In brief
The dugoutBence Babos knocks on the manager's door
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In brief
The dugoutThe plan did not have a place for Álex Vallejo
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
“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.
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.
In brief
Player ratingsThe one thing Ivan Šaponjić could not do
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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 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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.