Máté Kohut

Striker - Nyíregyháza
26 Jun 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Máté Kohut

152 Edition

The Nyíregyháza Sentinel

25 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Attila Temesvári asks to leave Nyíregyháza

“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

Kecskeméti TE come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Nyíregyháza did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

A falling-out at Nyíregyháza

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

Market

Sonny Yvars is a Nyíregyháza player

The fee is $33.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Karcag drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

Words at Nyíregyháza training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eneo Bitri 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.

Transfer targets

Debrecen tell Nyíregyháza: Plamen Andreev is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Lucas Alfonso needs a bigger stage

He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Nyíregyháza know which stage they are at.

Transfer targets

Nyíregyháza try to borrow Darío Bonilla

ZTE have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Nyíregyháza try to borrow Stavros Pnevmonidis

AEK have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

Back issues
151 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

18 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

50 days out for Nemanja Mihajlović after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Budafoki MTE will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

András Hársfalvi agrees terms with Kisvárda

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Budafoki MTE people have started saying his name in the past tense.

The terraces

Budafoki MTE sell a favourite for $190.0K

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Máté Kohut was one of the reasons people came, and $190.0K does not replace that by itself.

Market

Bence Trencsényi puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Budafoki MTE, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Robert Tarcsi is a medical away from Budafoki MTE

The deal with Nyíregyháza is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Words exchanged at Budafoki MTE

Adrián Szőke 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

Budafoki MTE sell Máté Kohut for $190.0K

Máté Kohut has left for Nyíregyháza in a $190.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Transfer targets

Budafoki MTE rebuffed over Márton Szép

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. ETO Győr have kept their man, and Budafoki MTE go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

András Hársfalvi gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

151 Edition

The Nyíregyháza Sentinel

18 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Nyíregyháza break the bank for Lucas Alfonso

$3.8M. No player has ever cost Nyíregyháza more, and expectation arrives with him.

Market

Terms done: Milán Májer is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Soroksár waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Nyíregyháza is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Marius Corbu puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nyíregyháza, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Daniel Adu-Adjei due for a Nyíregyháza medical

Everything agreed with HNK Rijeka, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market

Máté Kohut is a Nyíregyháza player

The fee is $190.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Budafoki MTE drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Nyíregyháza

Lucas Alfonso 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.

The terraces

Nyíregyháza spend $3.8M on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $3.8M for Lucas Alfonso, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Transfer targets

Kisvárda tell Nyíregyháza: Eduvie Ikoba is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Eneo Bitri 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.

In brief

150 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

11 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Nemanja Mihajlović out for 58 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Budafoki MTE will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Máté Kohut agrees terms with Diosgyor

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Budafoki MTE people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Botond Kemenes asks to leave Budafoki MTE

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Budafoki MTE

Adrián Szőke 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Budafoki MTE

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patrik Posztobányi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Door shut on István Katona

Budafoki MTE asked and Debrecen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Iustin Cristea wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Budafoki MTE can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Market

Still no ink between Budafoki MTE and Patrik Posztobányi

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Budafoki MTE, another week without a signature from Patrik Posztobányi.

Transfer targets

Budafoki MTE try to borrow Vlad Oargă

FC Argeș have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

147 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

21 May 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

83 days out for Nemanja Mihajlović after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Budafoki MTE will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Máté Kohut asks to leave Budafoki MTE

“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.

Squad

A falling-out at Budafoki MTE

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

Squad

Words at Budafoki MTE training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Levente Katona 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 dugout

Patrik Posztobányi knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Patrik Posztobányi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Răzvan Olaru

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

The András Hársfalvi story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until András Hársfalvi signs something — a contract at Budafoki MTE or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

Sándor Rózsa gets picked when it counts

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 Sándor Rózsa is on it.

Squad

Cătălin Pîntea wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Budafoki MTE will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

In brief

146 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

14 May 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Nemanja Mihajlović breaks a bone — 91 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 91 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Máté Kohut is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Budafoki MTE is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Adrián Szőke in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Budafoki MTE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Budafoki MTE

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Levente Katona was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Loan watch

Mirkó Bozó has seen enough of Kozármisleny

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Budafoki MTE, and 1 appearances in 14 say he has earned the hearing.

Boardroom

Wages eat 89% of everything Budafoki MTE earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Cătălin Pîntea

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

Adrián Szőke linked with a move away

The name of Adrián Szőke keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Budafoki MTE say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

Ihor Hrybenyk has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Budafoki MTE will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

145 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

7 May 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Nemanja Mihajlović breaks a bone — 100 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 100 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Budafoki MTE

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market

Levente Miszlai puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Budafoki MTE, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Budafoki MTE

Adrián Szőke 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.

Boardroom

Budafoki MTE counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Budafoki MTE now.

Squad

Words at Budafoki MTE training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Levente Katona 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.

Squad

A step back for Botond Nándori at Budafoki MTE

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

The dugout

No hiding place for Zalán Gábor Maronyai

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zalán Gábor Maronyai, and the manager let it.

Market

Matej Gašpar linked with a move away

The name of Matej Gašpar keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Budafoki MTE say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

143 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

23 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Nemanja Mihajlović breaks a bone — 114 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 114 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Máté Kohut puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Budafoki MTE, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Zalán Gábor Maronyai says Budafoki MTE 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Budafoki MTE

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

Squad

A row about effort at Budafoki MTE

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Levente Katona was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Loan watch

Breno Nolasco has seen enough of MTK Budapest

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Budafoki MTE, and 2 appearances in 14 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout

Mathis Hamdi asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

The András Hársfalvi story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until András Hársfalvi signs something — a contract at Budafoki MTE or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

Sándor Rózsa gets picked when it counts

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 Sándor Rózsa is on it.

In brief

142 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Nemanja Mihajlović breaks a bone — 121 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 121 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Botond Nándori puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Budafoki MTE, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Máté Kohut has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Budafoki MTE they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Adrián Szőke in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Budafoki MTE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Levente Katona 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.

Squad

Time is catching up with Aleksandar Varjačić

Everybody at Budafoki MTE saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 37 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

Boardroom

Wages eat 95% of everything Budafoki MTE earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Loan watch

Mirkó Bozó has seen enough of Kozármisleny

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Budafoki MTE, and 1 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.

Market

Botond Kemenes told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Botond Kemenes has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Budafoki MTE.

In brief

138 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

19 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sándor Rózsa

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

Squad

A fracture rules Patrik Poór out for 16 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Budafoki MTE will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Máté Kohut hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Budafoki MTE can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Máté Kohut has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Budafoki MTE they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Adrián Szőke in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Budafoki MTE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Budafoki MTE training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Levente Katona 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 dugout

Ádám Lang gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 97% of the Budafoki MTE income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Loan watch

Mirkó Bozó has seen enough of Kozármisleny

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Budafoki MTE, and 1 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

134 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

19 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Máté Kohut puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Budafoki MTE, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Máté Kohut

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Máté Kohut will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Budafoki MTE the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Budafoki MTE

Levente Katona 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.

Squad

Words at Budafoki MTE training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Predrag Popadić 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.

Transfer targets

Zeleznicar Pancevo tell Budafoki MTE: Alexandros Tzamalis is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

No place for András Hársfalvi in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” András Hársfalvi has his answer from Budafoki MTE; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Loan watch

Breno Nolasco has seen enough of MTK Budapest

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Budafoki MTE, and 1 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Boardroom

90% of the income goes out in wages at Budafoki MTE

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

The dugout

No place for Ádám Lang on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Budafoki MTE pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

In brief

132 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Terms done: Máté Kohut is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Kazincbarcika waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Budafoki MTE is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

So close: András Hársfalvi’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Diosgyor moved on, András Hársfalvi reports back to Budafoki MTE, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

The dugout

Dimos Tenekes: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Budafoki MTE have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Boardroom

Budafoki MTE close the window on a squad of their own making

2 in and 3 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

Words exchanged at Budafoki MTE

Adrián Szőke 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

Levente Katona 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Mascote

Budafoki MTE asked and Botev Plovdiv said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Budafoki MTE see off Tiszakécske

Three points for Budafoki MTE, 2‑1 the final word against Tiszakécske in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Loan watch

Donát Horgosi wants to come home

“I did not go to ETO Győr to sit and watch. I want to come back to Budafoki MTE and fight for my place.” 7 appearances in 27 matches say the rest.

In brief

130 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

22 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

András Hársfalvi has said yes to Diosgyor

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Budafoki MTE have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Máté Kohut puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Budafoki MTE, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

5 matches without a win for Budafoki MTE

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Budafoki MTE are no longer polite ones.

Market

Only the photograph left for Máté Kohut

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Máté Kohut will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Budafoki MTE the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Adrián Szőke in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Budafoki MTE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Levente Katona 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Alexandros Tzamalis

Budafoki MTE asked and Zeleznicar Pancevo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Fehervar take the points off Budafoki MTE

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Levente Katona gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

128 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Máté Kohut agrees terms with Kazincbarcika

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Budafoki MTE people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Botond Nándori asks to leave Budafoki MTE

“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.

Transfer targets

Benjámin Gólik is a medical away from Budafoki MTE

The deal with Ferencvaros is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

A falling-out at Budafoki MTE

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

Market

MTK Budapest watching Breno Nolasco

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Budafoki MTE have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Matej Gašpar signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Matej Gašpar and Budafoki MTE agree another 4 years.

Squad

Predrag Popadić 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.

Transfer targets

Budafoki MTE rebuffed over Gellért Dúzs

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. MTK Budapest have kept their man, and Budafoki MTE go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Nemanja Mihajlović answers Paksi immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Nemanja Mihajlović had Budafoki MTE level again within 1 minutes, and Paksi never got to play with a lead at all.

In brief

124 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

11 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Budafoki MTE run riot against Bekescsaba

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Market

Máté Kohut asks to leave Budafoki MTE

“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.

Player ratings

Patrik Posztobányi pops up at the right end — 7.87

7.87, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

The dugout

Benjámin Bacsa says Budafoki MTE 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Budafoki MTE

Adrián Szőke 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

A row about effort at Budafoki MTE

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Levente Katona was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

Budafoki MTE supporters have found a favourite in Matej Gašpar

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Matej Gašpar has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Matej Gašpar at his very best

Marked 8.09. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Budafoki MTE.

The dugout

András Hársfalvi is still paying for one afternoon at Budafoki MTE

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

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4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Chastening afternoon for Budafoki MTE

A 1‑4 beating by MTK Budapest was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad

A falling-out at Budafoki MTE

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

Squad

Levente Katona 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.

Loan watch

Donát Horgosi counts the days

“I watch every Budafoki MTE game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at ETO Győr runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout

No hiding place for Zalán Gregor

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zalán Gregor, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Budafoki MTE dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑4 defeat, delivered by Balazs Kleinheisler to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Nemanja Mihajlović

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Nemanja Mihajlović has come out of that comparison in the side, and Budafoki MTE have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Market

Still no ink between Budafoki MTE and Zalán Gregor

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Budafoki MTE, another week without a signature from Zalán Gregor.

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117 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Budafoki MTE

Adrián Szőke 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.

Boardroom

The numbers do not look good at Budafoki MTE

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Squad

Levente Katona 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.

Squad

25 clean sheets for András Hársfalvi

A goalkeeper's career is counted in the games nobody scored in, and András Hársfalvi now has 25 of them across 269 appearances. Nothing about that number was luck.

The dugout

No hiding place for Botond Nándori

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Botond Nándori, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Vladyslav Naumets

A mark of 7.49, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Market

Máté Kohut is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Budafoki MTE has been clear about where Máté Kohut stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout

Balazs Kleinheisler: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout

Patrik Poór dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

116 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Benjámin Bacsa keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Budafoki MTE may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Words exchanged at Budafoki MTE

Adrián Szőke 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

A row about effort at Budafoki MTE

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Predrag Popadić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Budafoki MTE lose Bence Trencsényi

14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

No hiding place for Zalán Gregor

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zalán Gregor, and the manager let it.

The dugout

When it matters, Breno Nolasco 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.

Looking ahead

Zalán Gábor Maronyai goes back to face Szeged-Csanád GA

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Zalán Gábor Maronyai’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Budafoki MTE needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Market

The András Hársfalvi question follows Budafoki MTE around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with András Hársfalvi’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad

Benjamin Pajković has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Budafoki MTE will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

In brief

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The Budafoki MTE Herald

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

No thanks: Levente Katona rejects the move

Budafoki MTE had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Ferencvaros, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Adrián Szőke in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Budafoki MTE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Predrag Popadić 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.

Transfer targets

Puskas Akademia tell Budafoki MTE: Máté Deczki is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

Predrag Popadić gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Talks stall between Budafoki MTE and Zalán Gregor

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad

Levente Katona has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Budafoki MTE know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Looking ahead

Zalán Gregor faces his old club

Ajka next, and one man in the Budafoki MTE dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Market

Adrián Szőke linked with a move away

The name of Adrián Szőke keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Budafoki MTE say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

101 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Roland Hajdú out for 98 days

98 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Budafoki MTE lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Adrián Szőke says no to ZTE

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Adrián Szőke had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market

Bálint Rehó puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Budafoki MTE, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Budafoki MTE

Adrián Szőke 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.

Boardroom

Budafoki MTE counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Budafoki MTE now.

Squad

Predrag Popadić 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Marko Kvasina

Budafoki MTE asked and Puskas Akademia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom

5 new boys at the Budafoki MTE academy

Signed today, seen by nobody for years, and one of them may one day be the reason the club exists. That is the whole of the argument for an academy, and it is a good one.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mykola Havryliuk

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mykola Havryliuk, and the manager let it.

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94 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

István Katona hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Budafoki MTE can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A falling-out at Budafoki MTE

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

Squad

Words at Budafoki MTE training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nemanja Mihajlović 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.

Squad

8 new faces, and Budafoki MTE 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.

Squad

A season on the outside for Predrag Popadić

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Budafoki MTE has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

Market

The Adrián Szőke story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Adrián Szőke signs something — a contract at Budafoki MTE or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Loan watch

3 goals on loan for Bálint Rehó

22 appearances at Csákvár and the goals keep coming. Budafoki MTE are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

The dugout

Zsombor Petroff knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Budafoki MTE, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Match

A season winding down at Budafoki MTE

Position 7, 41 points, safe from one end and out of reach of the other. The last weeks are about next season now, and the team sheet has started saying so.

In brief

93 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

The Budafoki MTE board want somebody sold

The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.

Squad

Words exchanged at Budafoki MTE

Adrián Szőke 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

Predrag Popadić 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Botond Nándori

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

Talks stall between Budafoki MTE and Stefan Filipović

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Boardroom

The numbers do not look good at Budafoki MTE

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Market

Donát Horgosi placed on the list

Budafoki MTE have made Donát Horgosi available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Squad

Nemanja Mihajlović still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Budafoki MTE would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

Squad

Máté Kohut: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Budafoki MTE will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

In brief

92 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Budafoki MTE

Adrián Szőke 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.

Squad

Words at Budafoki MTE training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nemanja Mihajlović 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.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 87% of the Budafoki MTE income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

The dugout

No hiding place for Máté Kohut

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Máté Kohut, and the manager let it.

Squad

Benjamin Pajković slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Benjamin Pajković is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Squad

Budafoki MTE have started building around Botond Nándori

He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.

In brief

91 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Adrián Szőke in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Budafoki MTE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Budafoki MTE

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nemanja Mihajlović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Stefan Filipović asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

András Hársfalvi linked with a move away

The name of András Hársfalvi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Budafoki MTE say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Máté Kohut is not doing himself any favours

A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.

Squad

Benjámin Bacsa finally belongs at Budafoki MTE

The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.

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The Budafoki MTE Herald

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

6 saves: András Hársfalvi was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings

Patrik Posztobányi goes up and wins it — 7.86

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 7.86 for the rest of it.

Squad

Adrián Szőke in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Budafoki MTE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Dávid Kovács

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Soroksár snatch it back from Budafoki MTE

A goal on 88 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Match

Honours even between Budafoki MTE and Soroksár

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Balazs Kleinheisler on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Roland Hajdú

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Budafoki MTE told Roland Hajdú something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Looking ahead

Máté Kohut goes back to face Bekescsaba

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Máté Kohut’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Budafoki MTE needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

66 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Budafoki MTE taken apart

0‑3 to Puskas Akademia, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match

No end in sight to Budafoki MTE's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Budafoki MTE has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

The goals have deserted Budafoki MTE

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Budafoki MTE

Adrián Szőke 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

Krisztofer Szerető told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Krisztofer Szerető has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Budafoki MTE.

The dugout

Predrag Popadić gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Boardroom

Inquest at Budafoki MTE

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 95% of the Budafoki MTE income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

The dugout

Balazs Kleinheisler answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief

58 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

36 days out for Dávid Kálnoki-Kis after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Budafoki MTE will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

A career in one shirt: Dávid Kovács

13 seasons and 383 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.

Market

Krisztofer Szerető attracts admirers

The name of Krisztofer Szerető has come up in conversations Budafoki MTE were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 18 in, 7 out at Budafoki MTE

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 18 arrived, 7 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

Words exchanged at Budafoki MTE

Adrián Szőke 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

Nemanja Mihajlović 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.

Transfer targets

Budafoki MTE rebuffed over Vukota Isakovski

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Vasas have kept their man, and Budafoki MTE go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Loan watch

Bálint Rehó has seen enough of Csákvár

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Budafoki MTE, and 1 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Máté Kohut

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

56 Edition

The Budafoki MTE Herald

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

52 days out for Dávid Kálnoki-Kis after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Budafoki MTE will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Patrik Posztobányi goes up and wins it — 7.90

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 7.90 for the rest of it.

Squad

Adrián Szőke in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Budafoki MTE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Budafoki MTE training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Filipović 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.

Transfer targets

Andorra tell Budafoki MTE: Ivan Bašić is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of András Hársfalvi

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

Bertalan Kun was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

Budafoki MTE rescue it on 91 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 91. Tiszakécske had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Match

Budafoki MTE and Tiszakécske take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief