Yassin Hamdi

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Ajka
29 May 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Yassin Hamdi

33 Edition

The Ajka Courier

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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

Back issues
28 Edition

The Ajka Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Viktor Sejben

18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ajka lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Zoltán Csizmadia asks to leave Ajka

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match

The wait goes on for Ajka

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

The dugout

Zoltán Csizmadia says Ajka went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

The goals have deserted Ajka

5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Ajka can tell you which week it ends in.

Market

The Kazincbarcika deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Viktor Sejben reports back to Ajka with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Squad

Words exchanged at Ajka

Vane Jovanov 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.

Squad

Yassin Hamdi arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Yassin Hamdi has, at Ajka, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Nikolasz Nagy signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nikolasz Nagy commits to Ajka for another 3 years.

In brief