“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Vasas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vasas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vasas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diogo Spencer is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Marco Nasti is on it.
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Vasas will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Nasti is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Diogo Spencer is on it.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 121 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Vaso Vasić was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Nasti 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.
8 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.
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.
A brace, and Marco Nasti takes the afternoon — 9.09
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Marco Nasti provided it, and the 9.09 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Vasas will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Csaba Molnár did not need any: 7.61, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diogo Spencer 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.
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 94. MTK Budapest had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Half the programme played, position 3, 20 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Vasas had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at AZ, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
The fee is $340.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. MTK Budapest drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
7 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.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Marco Nasti has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Gonzalo Puntano. 2‑0 against Debrecen, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kenneth Otigba 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.
András Radó and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
“The 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.
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Vasas, and both men came out saying it was fine.
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Diosgyor next, and one man in the Vasas dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.