The Haladas Chronicle
The dugout31 Jan 2028
Márk Tamás says Haladas 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.
Transfer targets31 Jan 2028
Bálint Rideg due for a Haladas medical
Everything agreed with Paksi, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad31 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Haladas
David Nagy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Romain Muro gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Romain Muro has just signed for Haladas, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Words at Haladas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Viktor Fiola 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.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Too much change too quickly at Haladas
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
When it matters, David Nagy plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market31 Jan 2028
Mathis Raimbault told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Mathis Raimbault has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Haladas.
Market31 Jan 2028
The Gabor Fiola question follows Haladas around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Gabor Fiola’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- The dugout Daniel Lang knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Haladas keep their word to Romain Muro
- Market Haladas shop where it costs nothing