Rory Whittaker

Right Back - Puskas Akademia
5 Jul 2029
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The Puskas Akademia Chronicle

4 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Up they go: Puskas Akademia promoted

Confirmed, mathematical, and a town awake all night. Whatever else the season contained, it finishes a division higher than it started.

Market

Krisztofer Horváth asks to leave Puskas Akademia

“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.

Market

Puskas Akademia say no — this time

The offer from Voždovac for Dorian Babunski was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Words exchanged at Puskas Akademia

Georgy Arutyunyan 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.

Market

The Samuel Petráš conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Nyíregyháza will make the call about Samuel Petráš this week. Puskas Akademia have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Squad

Puskas Akademia count the cost of losing Dorian Babunski

71 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Words at Puskas Akademia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Petráš 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.

Market

Balázs Tóth is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Puskas Akademia has been clear about where Balázs Tóth stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout

Artem Nagirnyi frozen out at Puskas Akademia

This is not rotation. Artem Nagirnyi has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Puskas Akademia is pretending otherwise.

In brief

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The Puskas Akademia Chronicle

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Puskas Akademia cannot stop winning

9 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jhojan De La Cruz

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

Match

No mercy from Puskas Akademia

Csákvár will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Puskas Akademia were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

Both of them Sékou Gassama's — 8.67

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.67, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Not going: Tamás Markek stays at Puskas Akademia

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Fehervar had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Squad

Sékou Gassama is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.24 with 25 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market

Puskas Akademia say no — this time

The offer from ZTE for Dorian Babunski was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Samuel Petráš attracts admirers

The name of Samuel Petráš has come up in conversations Puskas Akademia were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

A falling-out at Puskas Akademia

Georgy Arutyunyan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief