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104 Edition

The Ferencvaros Post

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market24 Jul 2028

Ferencvaros get their man

The chase for Sead Islamović ended with $1.2M changing hands and BVSC-Zugló out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Market24 Jul 2028

Ferencvaros sign Aleksandar Đukanović for $1.2M

The paperwork is done: Aleksandar Đukanović joins from BVSC-Zugló in a deal worth $1.2M. Now comes the harder part.

Market24 Jul 2028

Ferencvaros sign Martin Auerbach for $630.0K

The paperwork is done: Martin Auerbach joins from Szentlőrinc in a deal worth $630.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad24 Jul 2028

A falling-out at Ferencvaros

Patrick Berg and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad24 Jul 2028

A move Sead Islamović would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Sead Islamović is living that version at Ferencvaros, and it tends to show in the first month.

The dugout24 Jul 2028

No hiding place for Bamidele Yusuf

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bamidele Yusuf, and the manager let it.

The dugout24 Jul 2028

Jonathan Levi has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Ferencvaros 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.

Squad24 Jul 2028

Szilárd Lestál 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.

Squad24 Jul 2028

Sead Islamović is a square peg at Ferencvaros

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief

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92 Edition

The Ferencvaros Post

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad1 May 2028

Zétény Varga 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.

Squad1 May 2028

Tempers go at Ferencvaros

Mariano Gómez 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.

The dugout1 May 2028

When it matters, Edgar Sevikyan plays

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.

Squad1 May 2028

Szilárd Lestál 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.

Squad1 May 2028

A season on the outside for Jonathan Levi

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Ferencvaros has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

Market1 May 2028

Still no ink between Ferencvaros and Zoltán Skotner

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Ferencvaros, another week without a signature from Zoltán Skotner.

The dugout1 May 2028

The manager makes Cadu a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Ferencvaros. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Market1 May 2028

Franko Kovačević linked with a move away

The name of Franko Kovačević keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Ferencvaros say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout1 May 2028

Zoltán Skotner 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 Zoltán Skotner trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

86 Edition

The Ferencvaros Post

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match15 Mar 2028

Ferencvaros through in the cup

A 2‑1 win over MTK Budapest, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings20 Mar 2028

Edgar Sevikyan scores twice — 8.78

Two goals and a mark of 8.78 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad20 Mar 2028

A falling-out at Ferencvaros

Mariano Gómez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Franko Kovačević stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Franko Kovačević and Ferencvaros agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match15 Mar 2028

Ferencvaros hit back inside 3 minutes

MTK Budapest held the lead for 3 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Ferencvaros answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.

The dugout20 Mar 2028

Patrick Berg has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Ferencvaros 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.

The dugout20 Mar 2028

Nikola Radmanovac 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.

The dugout20 Mar 2028

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Attila Gulacsi, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Patrick Berg has to sit this one out

A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Ferencvaros lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.

In brief