Marked for Benjámin Gólik
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Upbeat
Match21 Jun 2027
The view from the top for Ferencvaros
60 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Market21 Jun 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Ferencvaros have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market21 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Vasas have kept their man, and Ferencvaros go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Vinicius Tobias 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Benjámin Gólik 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Florent Hadergjonaj was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Too much change too quickly at Ferencvaros
7 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.
Market21 Jun 2027
Endre Botka told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Endre Botka has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Ferencvaros.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 50. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match10 Dec 2026
Ferencvaros do the business in Europe
0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Ferencvaros came through the finding-out well against Sion.
Match12 Dec 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Ferencvaros did not have in the autumn.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ferencvaros may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Mariano Gómez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match12 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Zsombor Gruber. 3‑1 against Honved, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Zsombor Gruber at his very best
Marked 8.68. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Ferencvaros.
Market14 Dec 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Akos Lang is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Triumph
Match17 Oct 2026
95 minutes played. Kristoffer Zachariassen found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Diosgyor went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Ferencvaros have 4 straight wins of it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Benjámin Gólik: 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.” Ferencvaros have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Dénes Dibusz 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 2‑1 win over Diosgyor, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
The big one: Ujpest come into view
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Ferencvaros will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Franko Kovačević at his very best
Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Ferencvaros.
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Triumph
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Debrecen, and it could have been more.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
An offer of $3.7M for Gábor Vas
Ferencvaros have gone to Paksi with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. MTK Budapest have kept their man, and Ferencvaros go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market31 Aug 2026
CFR Cluj come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Ferencvaros did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Dénes Dibusz 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Ferencvaros training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mariano Gómez 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ferencvaros keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Veljko Birmančević was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.25. 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.
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Triumph
Match22 Aug 2026
5‑0, and Veljko Birmančević took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Ferencvaros tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad24 Aug 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Market24 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 Ferencvaros, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market24 Aug 2026
Benevento come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Ferencvaros did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Paksi have kept their man, and Ferencvaros go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Dénes Dibusz 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.61 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Triumph
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 50. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 85th, and Ujpest spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Antalyaspor had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer from IFK Norrkoping for Jonathan Levi 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Zsombor Gruber, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.95
A mark of 7.95 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Diosgyor this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market10 Aug 2026
Marius Corbu has left for Haladas in a $1.5M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Dénes Dibusz 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.