Diosgyor

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14 Mar 2027
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32 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Peter Ambrose keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Diosgyor may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Yohan Croizet-Kollár signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yohan Croizet-Kollár commits to Diosgyor for another 2 years.

Squad

Danilo Mitrović 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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Market

Still no ink between Diosgyor and Aleksandar Popović

“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.

Market

The Yaroslav Medvedev story refuses to die

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 dugout

The manager makes Aboubakar Keïta a promise

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.

In brief

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The Diosgyor Courier

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

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.

Market

Gergő Holdampf hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Diosgyor can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Diosgyor

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

Tijn den Boggende moves up the pecking order

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.

Squad

A season on the outside for Danilo Mitrović

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.

Market

The Danilo Mitrović talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Diosgyor know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

A door opens for Álex Vallejo

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.

In brief

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The Diosgyor Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Squad

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 watch

Bogdán Bánhegyi has seen enough of Haladas

“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 dugout

A door opens for Aboubakar Keïta

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.

Market

Ivan Šaponjić linked with a move away

The name of Ivan Šaponjić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Diosgyor say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

A season on the outside for Tijn den Boggende

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.

In brief

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The Diosgyor Courier

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Ágoston Bényei agrees terms with Bekescsaba

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.

Squad

Tempers go at Diosgyor

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.

Squad

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 targets

Diosgyor rebuffed over José Enrique

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.

Squad

Diosgyor count the cost of losing Zétény Varga

21 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

The formation has left Tijn den Boggende behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Diosgyor will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Market

The Ante Roguljić story refuses to die

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 dugout

The manager makes Aboubakar Keïta a promise

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.

Market

Diosgyor borrow Tijn den Boggende

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.

In brief

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The Diosgyor Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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 targets

Diosgyor rebuffed over Patrik Iľko

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.

Market

The Ágoston Bényei conversation is coming

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 dugout

No hiding place for Csaba Szatmári

“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.

Squad

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.

Squad

Bilal Faye signs on for more

“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.

Squad

No place for Tom van den Bos in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Diosgyor are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Market

The Yaroslav Medvedev story refuses to die

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 dugout

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.

In brief

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The Diosgyor Courier

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Market

Diosgyor turn down Fehervar for Ante Roguljić

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Boardroom

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.

Market

Bekescsaba watching Ágoston Bényei

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Diosgyor have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 targets

Dila tell Diosgyor: Shota Shekiladze is not for sale

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.

Squad

Derick Ogbu stays put

“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 targets

Diosgyor try to borrow Tijn den Boggende

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.

In brief

26 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 targets

Ujpest tell Diosgyor: Gergő Bodnár is not for sale

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.

Market

Fehervar join the queue for Szilárd Bokros

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 watch

Bogdán Bánhegyi counts the days

“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 dugout

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 dugout

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.

In brief

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The Diosgyor Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

Diosgyor lose Yaroslav Kysil

26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

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 targets

Door shut on Levente Szabó

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 targets

Diosgyor try to borrow Anísio Cabral

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 dugout

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 dugout

A door opens for Álex Vallejo

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.

Market

The Ivan Šaponjić talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Diosgyor know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

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The Diosgyor Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Market

Ágoston Bényei agrees terms with Bekescsaba

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 targets

Door shut on Ivan Timoshenko

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 dugout

Zoltán Medgyes 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.

Transfer targets

Diosgyor ask about Levente Szabó

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 targets

A loan move for Dominik Kaczvinszki is in the works

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.

In brief

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The Diosgyor Courier

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Market

Gergő Holdampf puts it in writing

“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 targets

Mario Simuţ is a medical away from Diosgyor

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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 targets

Diosgyor ask about Bence Varga

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.

Squad

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 dugout

No hiding place for Gergő Holdampf

“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.

In brief

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The Diosgyor Courier

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Match

7 unbeaten for Diosgyor

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Diosgyor did not have in the autumn.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 ratings

Ante Roguljić beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

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 ratings

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 dugout

Csaba Szatmári 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.

In brief

21 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Match

Diosgyor see off Fehervar

Three points for Diosgyor, 1‑0 the final word against Fehervar in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

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 dugout

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 ratings

Ivan Šaponjić runs at them all day

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.

Squad

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 ratings

Nothing got past Ákos Kecskés

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

20 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Squad

Danilo Mitrović 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.

Squad

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 ratings

Ante Roguljić was unplayable

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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Zétény Varga

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.

Match

Diosgyor find a way past Vasas

Vasas made Diosgyor work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

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 dugout

No hiding place for Aboubakar Keïta

“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.

In brief

19 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Squad

Tempers go at Diosgyor

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Match

Diosgyor find a way past Paksi

Paksi made Diosgyor work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

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.

Squad

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 dugout

Dominik Fiola has his say

“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 dugout

Álex Vallejo does not fit this one

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

18 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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.

Match

Máté Sajbán settles it late for Diosgyor

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Match

Máté Sajbán the difference as Diosgyor beat Debrecen

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 ratings

Máté Sajbán in the eights

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 watch

Bogdán Bánhegyi wants to come home

“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.

Boardroom

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.

In brief

17 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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 ratings

Ivan Šaponjić runs at them all day

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 dugout

Dominik Fiola: “We have to be better”

“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 dugout

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.

Match

No goals between Diosgyor and Haladas

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Haladas will be the happier side with the point.

In brief

16 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 ratings

Ivan Šaponjić runs at them all day

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 dugout

No hiding place for Aboubakar Keïta

“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.

Match

Diosgyor share the spoils with MTK Budapest

A 1‑1 draw with MTK Budapest leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

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.

Squad

Ákos Kecskés suspended

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.

In brief

15 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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 dugout

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.

Market

Diosgyor promote Roland Dibusz from within

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.

Market

One of our own: Attila Bese joins the Diosgyor first team

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 ratings

Ante Roguljić runs at them all day

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.

In brief

14 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 watch

Bogdán Bánhegyi wants to come home

“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 ratings

Ivan Šaponjić beats them one at a time

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 dugout

Ágoston Bényei 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.

Match

Bekescsaba snatch it back from Diosgyor

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 ratings

Ante Roguljić takes the honours

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

13 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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 dugout

Dávid Gróf keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Diosgyor may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 ratings

Ante Roguljić beats them one at a time

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 dugout

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.

Match

Diosgyor and Puskas Akademia take a point apiece

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 dugout

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.

In brief

12 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

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.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Yaroslav Medvedev

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.

Squad

Real improvement from Yaroslav Medvedev at Diosgyor

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Match

Diosgyor come up short against Ferencvaros

Ferencvaros left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

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.

Market

Gergő Holdampf told to find a new club

“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 dugout

Gergő Holdampf 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.

In brief

11 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

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 dugout

Gergő Holdampf says Diosgyor went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Yaroslav Medvedev stands alone

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.

Squad

Tempers go at Diosgyor

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.

Squad

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.

Match

Diosgyor come up short against Honved

Honved left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

One of our own: Janos Botka joins the Diosgyor first team

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.

Market

Diosgyor promote Viktor Gulacsi from within

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 dugout

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.

In brief

10 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

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 ratings

Ante Roguljić runs at them all day

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

No hiding place for Ágoston Bényei

“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.

Boardroom

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.

Squad

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 watch

Bogdán Bánhegyi wants to come home

“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.

Match

Diosgyor share the spoils with Fehervar

A 1‑1 draw with Fehervar leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

9 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tempers go at Diosgyor

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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 dugout

No hiding place for Aboubakar Keïta

“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 dugout

Dominik Fiola: “No excuses”

“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 ratings

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 ratings

Wrong net for Ivan Šaponjić

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 dugout

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 ahead

A reunion for Ivan Šaponjić

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.

In brief

8 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

No mercy from Diosgyor

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 ratings

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 ratings

Vintage Yohan Croizet-Kollár — 8.18

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.18, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

No hiding place for Bence Babos

“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 dugout

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.

Squad

Yohan Croizet-Kollár is off the mark for Diosgyor

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Looking ahead

Dávid Gróf faces his old club

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.

In brief

7 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Diosgyor

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.

Squad

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.

Market

Balazs Gulacsi steps up from the Diosgyor academy

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.

Match

Diosgyor see off Debrecen

Three points for Diosgyor, 1‑0 the final word against Debrecen in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The dugout

No hiding place for Zoltán Medgyes

“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 ratings

Ante Roguljić takes the honours

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 ratings

Ivan Šaponjić 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.

The dugout

Dominik Fiola has his say

“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 ahead

Máté Sajbán goes back to face Paksi

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.

In brief

6 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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.

Boardroom

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.

Match

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.

Squad

Tempers go at Diosgyor

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.

Squad

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 ratings

Nobody could get near Yohan Croizet-Kollár

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

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.

Squad

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.

Market

Diosgyor and Aboubakar Keïta are talking past each other

“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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

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 ratings

Nobody could get near Ante Roguljić

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

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 terraces

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.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Yaroslav Medvedev

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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 targets

Debrecen tell Diosgyor: Amos Youga is not for sale

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.

Market

Gábor Megyeri moves on

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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

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.

Market

Gábor Megyeri puts it in writing

“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 targets

No deal for Zsombor Gruber at that price

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 targets

Door shut on Dominik Sztojka

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.

Squad

Danilo Mitrović 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.

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Match

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 dugout

Dominik Fiola answers for it

“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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

No mercy from Diosgyor

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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 terraces

A $1.9M sale, and a town that did not want it

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.

Squad

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.

Market

Diosgyor sign Yaroslav Medvedev for $1.6M

The paperwork is done: Yaroslav Medvedev joins from Haladas in a deal worth $1.6M. Now comes the harder part.

Market

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 targets

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 targets

Fehervar tell Diosgyor: Donát Zsótér is not for sale

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

  • Squad A falling-out at Diosgyor
  • The terraces Diosgyor spend $1.6M on the signing the town wanted
  • Squad Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
2 Edition

The Diosgyor Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

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 targets

An offer of $1.6M for Yaroslav Medvedev

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 targets

Haladas tell Diosgyor: Marton Kleinheisler is not for sale

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 targets

An offer of $770.0K for Joel Fameyeh

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.

Squad

Tempers go at Diosgyor

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.

Market

Eyes on Marco Lund again

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.

Match

Puskas Akademia take the points off Diosgyor

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

Bence Dibusz steps up from the Diosgyor academy

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.

Market

Diosgyor promote Gabor Lang from within

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.

In brief

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The Diosgyor Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Chastening afternoon for Diosgyor

A 0‑3 beating by Ferencvaros was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad

Ante Roguljić stays put

“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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 targets

Diosgyor rebuffed over Denys Tvardovskyi

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 dugout

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 ratings

Ante Roguljić runs at them all day

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.

Boardroom

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.

Market

Diosgyor and Álex Vallejo are talking past each other

“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.

In brief