Marked for Ábel Krajcsovics
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
Florin Ştefan 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mateo Anaya, and the manager let it.
Market18 Jan 2027
No place for Donát Pálfi in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Donát Pálfi has his answer from Debrecen; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market18 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Patrik Demjén’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Balázs Dzsudzsák keeps the shirt for now, at Debrecen's convenience rather than his own.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Debrecen would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Upbeat
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ujpest may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market11 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ujpest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market11 Jan 2027
Everyone has stopped pretending: Ferencvaros will make the call about Ábel Krajcsovics this week. Ujpest have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Dávid Banai 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The name of Patrizio Stronati keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Ujpest say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
Match4 Jan 2027
Ujpest are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 42 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Ujpest will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 76 days on the sidelines for Tom Lacoux, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Ujpest
Patrizio Stronati 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Ujpest have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ujpest, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 25, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 unbeaten for Ujpest
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Ujpest did not have in the autumn.
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 Ujpest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 303% of everything Ujpest 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
An unwelcome headline for Dávid Banai
He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday. The order of those three tells you everything about what a football club actually values.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Attila Fiola gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Ujpest will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
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Triumph
Match26 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Ujpest
A 1‑0 win over Haladas, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ujpest, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
Ujpest get their man
The chase for Čebrail Makreckis ended with $2.0M changing hands and Ferencvaros out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ujpest make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Ujpest have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ujpest
Iuri Medeiros 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 9.16 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.80, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Barnabás Bese
Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
There were 7 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ujpest
Iuri Medeiros 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
A 3‑1 win over Puskas Akademia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 9.14 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Aljoša Matko 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Ujpest have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market17 Aug 2026
The Heitor question follows Ujpest around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Heitor’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Aljoša Matko and Ujpest agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ujpest
Iuri Medeiros 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
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Iuri Medeiros's contract
24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Match8 Aug 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Ferencvaros leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Iuri Medeiros and Ujpest agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ujpest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Aljoša Matko 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 Aljoša Matko trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market3 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Krisztián Tamás has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Ujpest.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ábel Krajcsovics, and the manager let it.