22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Szeged-Csanád GA lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rajmund Molnár was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Szeged-Csanád GA will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Marton Gazdag could afford to be generous.
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 9 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
MTK Budapest next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
Balázs Manner 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.
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eneo Bitri, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Nyíregyháza training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Levente Katona 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.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Andras Nikolic after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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.
8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nyíregyháza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Bojan Sanković has come out of that comparison in the side, and Nyíregyháza have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Andras Nikolic after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Nyíregyháza will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Dominik Nagy was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.31. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
At 19 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Nyíregyháza will try very hard not to make too much of it.
Something was said to Alessandro Nunziante and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Márk Kovácsréti. 1‑0 against Diosgyor, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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.
Balázs Manner 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.
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Andras Nikolic on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Position 2, 19 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Nyíregyháza have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Marked 9.38 — 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.
Krisztián Keresztes 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.
Marked 8.14 — 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.
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Nyíregyháza told Ognjen Ugrešić something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
In brief
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SquadWords at Nyíregyháza training over how hard people work
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Nyíregyháza will try again when the window opens; Slovan Bratislava may not be selling by then.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Bucharest have kept their man, and Nyíregyháza go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Nyíregyháza training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eneo Bitri 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nyíregyháza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Two goals and a mark of 8.29 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Nyíregyháza have gone to Slovan Bratislava with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
1 for Yuriy Toma, marked 7.31, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.96, and 2 involvements.