112 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Puskas Akademia 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 Kwadwo Duah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“The easiest signature of my career.” András Németh and Puskas Akademia agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dániel Lukács. 2‑0 against Vasas, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zsolt Nagy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Jetmir Haliti 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.
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 Dániel Lukács is on it.
It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.
Position 5, 35 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Puskas Akademia they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Zsolt Nagy 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Ricardo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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 Zsolt Nagy is on it.
Zsolt Nagy 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Ricardo 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.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Puskas Akademia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Tamás Markek damages knee ligaments — 125 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 125 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.
12 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Zsolt Nagy 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.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Martin Kern and Puskas Akademia agree another 5 years.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
András Németh was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.14. 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.
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Adam Fiola on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.95 for the rest of it.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Puskas Akademia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Alan Bikoumou is living that version at Puskas Akademia, and it tends to show in the first month.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zsolt Nagy 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.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Janos Nagy 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.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Viktor Nikolic 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.