Marked for Gábor Vas
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match7 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Paksi's wait for a win
14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Paksi has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 43. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match9 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Paksi
Position 11 and 11 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Paksi
József Windecker 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“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 ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 7.63. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
13 matches without a win for Paksi
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Paksi are no longer polite ones.
Match31 Oct 2026
Nowhere to hide for Paksi
1‑4 against Vasas, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market2 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
Fear has settled over Paksi
Position 11, 10 points, and a crowd that arrives already braced. Relegation seasons are lost in exactly this atmosphere, and everybody who has lived through one recognises it immediately.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Paksi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
János Hahn 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 ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I watch every Paksi game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Diosgyor runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Bence Lenzsér
“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
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Boardroom
Nobody left the Paksi dressing room in a hurry
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Boardroom
99% of the income goes out in wages at Paksi
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Player ratings
Kevin Horváth turns it into his own net
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
11 matches without a win for Paksi
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Paksi are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Paksi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Balázs Balogh falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
Bálint Vécsei damages knee ligaments — 18 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 18 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match3 Oct 2026
9 matches without a win for Paksi
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Paksi are no longer polite ones.
Market5 Oct 2026
Gábor Vas 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 Paksi can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Kevin Horváth, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.73
A mark of 7.73 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Paksi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Paksi know it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
János Hahn 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
MTK Budapest left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 128% of everything Paksi 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Bálint Vécsei
47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Paksi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match5 Sep 2026
Chastening afternoon for Paksi
A 0‑3 beating by Ferencvaros was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match5 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Paksi
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Paksi are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Paksi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Kristóf Papp falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Gábor Vas
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Upbeat
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” József Windecker and Paksi agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Paksi
Bálint Vécsei 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Paksi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. János Hahn 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Bekescsaba made Paksi work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Match8 Aug 2026
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Bekescsaba tried to reorganise, Paksi did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of János Hahn at his very best
Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Paksi.
Market10 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.