Malik Pimpong

Striker - Honved
4 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Malik Pimpong

5 Edition

The Honved Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cup progress for Honved

A 3‑0 win over Bekescsaba, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad

Gellért Dúzs keeps Honved in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Sebestyén Ihrig-Farkas scores twice — 8.17

Two goals and a mark of 8.17 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Malik Pimpong, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 8.00

A mark of 8.00 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Benedek Varju arrives at Honved in a $2.6M statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Honved have paid $2.6M for Benedek Varju, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Market

Gellért Dúzs hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Honved can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Dominik Csontos pops up at the right end — 7.66

7.66, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Match

Honved make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Honved have 3 straight wins of it.

Market

Bence Varga moves on

Vasas pay $310.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Eintracht Frankfurt Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Arsenal tell Eintracht Frankfurt: Martin Ødegaard is not for sale

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.

Transfer targets

An offer of $8.9M for Karl Hein

Eintracht Frankfurt have gone to Werder Bremen 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.

Squad

Lilian Brassier 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 Eintracht Frankfurt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

1 academy players handed senior numbers at Eintracht Frankfurt

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market

Eintracht Frankfurt promote Matthias Martin from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matthias Martin 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.

Boardroom

Eintracht Frankfurt sign off a bigger ground

A capacity of 80278 on the plans. A decision judged twenty years from now, by people who were not in the room and will have opinions anyway.

Squad

Sebastian Hoffmann stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Sebastian Hoffmann and Eintracht Frankfurt agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A season on the outside for Raphael Onyedika

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

The dugout

Sebastian Hoffmann 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 Sebastian Hoffmann trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief