Marked for Dániel Németh
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Fehervar
Gergely Nagy and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Csaba Spandler falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ferencvaros have kept their man, and Fehervar go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market11 Jan 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Krisztian Botka 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Ferencvaros: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan move for Artúr Horváth is in the works
Fehervar have made the call to MTK Budapest. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of El Hadji Dieye
“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 dugout11 Jan 2027
Márk Dékei knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Márk Dékei trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Uneasy
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Botond Kemenes: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Fehervar have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Fehervar
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Csaba Spandler was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Match19 Dec 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Diosgyor leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout21 Dec 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.” Daniel Szalai chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The plan did not have a place for Roland Varga
Nobody at Fehervar 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 ahead21 Dec 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Donát Zsótér’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Fehervar needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
10 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Fehervar
Janos Orban 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Fehervar
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Žarko Udovičić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Fehervar can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Janos Orban did the work nobody counts — 7.23
9 combined actions and 7.23. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Benedek Murka, and the manager let it.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Daniel Szalai after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Patrik Kovács has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Fehervar will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Upbeat
Match25 Nov 2026
The cup run ends for Fehervar
3‑3 against MTK Budapest, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match25 Nov 2026
Fehervar throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with MTK Budapest the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Fehervar will enjoy reviewing.
Squad30 Nov 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Gergely Nagy is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Gergely Nagy: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Donát Zsótér 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 Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
A performance of 9.95 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Fehervar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Csaba Spandler 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 terraces30 Nov 2026
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Vladyslav Kalitvintsev has, at Fehervar, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gergely Nagy and Fehervar agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Gergely Nagy 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 Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Csaba Spandler 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Dávid Lakatos again, and this time the name on the line is Puskas Akademia. Fehervar are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Krisztián Kovács’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.