Marked for Predrag Đorđević
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market17 May 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nyíregyháza is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad17 May 2027
67 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad17 May 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Akram Bouras was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad17 May 2027
Predrag Đorđević 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.
Squad17 May 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Bence Pók for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Nyíregyháza will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Market17 May 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Dominik Nagy’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
Squad10 May 2027
Eneo Bitri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 May 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Akram Bouras was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout10 May 2027
“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.
Loan watch10 May 2027
21 appearances at Poltava and the goals keep coming. Nyíregyháza are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Squad10 May 2027
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Nyíregyháza will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
Market10 May 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Bojan Sanković’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout10 May 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Nyíregyháza. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The dugout10 May 2027
Levente Katona 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 Nyíregyháza, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad10 May 2027
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Nyíregyháza the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Apr 2027
46 days out for Dániel Kovács after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Nyíregyháza will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad5 Apr 2027
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Eneo Bitri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill and Nyíregyháza agree another 3 years.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“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.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
9 clean sheets on loan for Roland Kersák
24 appearances at Mezőkövesd and the goals have stopped going in. Nyíregyháza lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.
Market5 Apr 2027
Žan Medved linked with a move away
The name of Žan Medved keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Nyíregyháza say nothing, which says plenty.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
The goals keep arriving from Dorian Babunski’s exile
4 goals in 15 games at Gornik Leczna — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Nyíregyháza updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
“I am playing every week here and I feel like a footballer again.” 21 appearances and 5 goals on loan, and a decision waiting in the summer.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Dániel Kovács out for 71 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nyíregyháza will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Eneo Bitri 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 Nyíregyháza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Akram Bouras 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Eneo Bitri 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 Nyíregyháza would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Loan watch15 Mar 2027
21 appearances at Poltava and the goals keep coming. Nyíregyháza are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market15 Mar 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Nyíregyháza know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Mar 2027
Dániel Kovács breaks a bone — 80 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 80 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dániel Kovács and Nyíregyháza agree another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Eneo Bitri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Akram Bouras was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“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.
Loan watch8 Mar 2027
9 shut-outs in 24 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Roland Kersák has been having a lot of them.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
116 days out for Dániel Kovács after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Nyíregyháza will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Nyíregyháza may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market8 Feb 2027
The offer from Kazincbarcika for Milán Kovács 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Nyíregyháza training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bojan Sanković 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 dugout8 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mátyás Katona, and the manager let it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Predrag Đorđević and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
9 shut-outs in 23 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Roland Kersák has been having a lot of them.
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Crisis
Match26 Dec 2026
10 matches without defeat, and then ETO Győr. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Squad28 Dec 2026
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Dominik Nagy 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
ETO Győr left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad28 Dec 2026
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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martin Dala, and the manager let it.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“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.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.87, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market14 Sep 2026
The offer from Epicentr for Péter Beke 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Three points for Nyíregyháza, 3‑2 the final word against ZTE in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Transfer targets14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Nyíregyháza training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Predrag Đorđević 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Krisztián Keresztes, and the manager let it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Dominik Szalai, on a 3‑2 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Nyíregyháza man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Bálint Katona was the best thing in any of them.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 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 Nyíregyháza, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 14 in, 6 out at Nyíregyháza
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 14 arrived, 6 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 Sep 2026
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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Nyíregyháza asked and Trabzonspor said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nyíregyháza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Sep 2026
The name of Marko Kvasina has come up in conversations Nyíregyháza were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 20 days on the sidelines for Bence Pók, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Akram Bouras was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.