Marked for Arnold Ambach
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
Szabolcs Gulacsi damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Márk Lakatos: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Szentlőrinc have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match9 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Szentlőrinc's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Szentlőrinc has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Miljan Krpić 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 Szentlőrinc this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Szentlőrinc asked and Rodina said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Péter Kiss-Szemán 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Budafoki MTE: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Barnabás Mohos, and the manager let it.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match19 Dec 2026
Chastening afternoon for Szentlőrinc
A 0‑3 beating by Fehervar was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Aleksa Paić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Nobody left the Szentlőrinc dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Mate Nagy faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Mate Nagy after 0‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Péter Kiss-Szemán 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aleksandar Rac, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
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 Aleksandar Rac is on it.
Looking ahead21 Dec 2026
Bekescsaba next, and one man in the Szentlőrinc dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Szentlőrinc will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
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Crisis
Squad30 Nov 2026
Miljan Krpić 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 178% of everything Szentlőrinc 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Mezőkövesd left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match30 Nov 2026
The half-term report on Szentlőrinc
Position 10, 19 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Arnold Ambach, and the manager let it.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Szentlőrinc are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Péter Kiss-Szemán 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.
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Uneasy
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Szentlőrinc may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Miljan Krpić 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 Szentlőrinc this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market16 Nov 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Janos Szalai 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bence Sallai is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Péter Kiss-Szemán 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Olivér Dinnyés's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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 Barnabás Mohos is on it.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is István Harsányi’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Szentlőrinc needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Donát Szivacski trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Aleksa Paić 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 Szentlőrinc this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Bence Kocsis
“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.
Match17 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Vasas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad19 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and Szentlőrinc are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Péter Kiss-Szemán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Aleksandar Rac has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Szentlőrinc 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.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
Honved next, and one man in the Szentlőrinc dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The plan did not have a place for Arnold Ambach
Nobody at Szentlőrinc is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
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Upbeat
Match26 Sep 2026
Szentlőrinc win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 91th minute. BVSC-Zugló will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A brace, and Marino Žeravica takes the afternoon — 8.71
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Marino Žeravica provided it, and the 8.71 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match26 Sep 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Szentlőrinc have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Miljan Krpić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Sep 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Marino Žeravica’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Szentlőrinc.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Noel Keresztes was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.07. 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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 dugout28 Sep 2026
Aleksa Paić is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.