The Karcag Post
Squad11 Jan 2027
Kamal Abdullahi breaks a bone — 106 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 106 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market11 Jan 2027
Dávid Székely 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 The request is on a desk at Karcag, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Ridwan Popoola is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Novak Gojkov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
László Scsadej turns down Karcag
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Ridwan Popoola 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 Karcag this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Novak Gojkov 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 targets11 Jan 2027
Door shut on Márk Kovácsréti
Karcag asked and Nyíregyháza said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Novak Gojkov 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
- Market Kristóf Szűcs is free to find somewhere else
- Match Dávid László rescues a point for Karcag
- The dugout Janos Botka: “We have to be better”