The Ajka Courier
Match15 Mar 2027
Ajka finish in position 12
33 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Maxim Marandici is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match13 Mar 2027
4 matches without a win for Ajka
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Ajka are no longer polite ones.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Ajka
Slaviša Stojanović 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Vane Jovanov 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.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Yassin Hamdi beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match13 Mar 2027
A bad afternoon for Ajka against Budafoki MTE
0‑2 to Budafoki MTE, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad15 Mar 2027
14 new faces, and Ajka 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 dugout15 Mar 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Daniel Sallai left the room before anybody could ask which.
In brief
- The dugout Nikolasz Kovács gets it from the manager
- The dugout Ajka keep their word to Nikolasz Kovács
- The dugout Gergő Pálinkás does not fit this one