Dániel Béleczki

Striker - Tiszakécske
29 Apr 2030
Monday
Process

Marked for Dániel Béleczki

195 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

22 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Josip Klasnić

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

The dugout

Artem Bezprozvannyi: 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.” Tiszakécske have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Laszlo Lisztes 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 Tiszakécske can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A row about effort at Tiszakécske

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

Squad

Vladimir Dimitrov wants to go home

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Tiszakécske

Artem Bezprozvannyi 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.

In brief

Back issues
192 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

1 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Rafael Ranschaert asks to leave Tiszakécske

“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.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Tiszakécske boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

The dugout

Logan Williams: 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.” Tiszakécske have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A falling-out at Tiszakécske

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

Squad

Bence Sós is slowing down

At 35, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Squad

A row about effort at Tiszakécske

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

Boardroom

Tiszakécske cannot sign anybody

The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.

Market

Tiszakécske and Bright Edomwonyi are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

A season on the outside for Bright Edomwonyi

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

In brief

191 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

25 Mar 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Codrin Oasenegre 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 Tiszakécske, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Bright Edomwonyi is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 35 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Squad

Vitalii Kuhutiak 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 Tiszakécske this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Rafael Ranschaert 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 105% of everything Tiszakécske 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

Dániel Béleczki 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 Dániel Béleczki is on it.

Market

The Márk Bencze talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Tiszakécske know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

Máté Marosi 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 Máté Marosi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Rafael Ranschaert placed on the list

Tiszakécske have made Rafael Ranschaert available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

187 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

25 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Rafael Ranschaert asks to leave Tiszakécske

“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.

Match

No end in sight to Tiszakécske's wait for a win

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

Squad

A row about effort at Tiszakécske

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

Match

3 matches without a goal for Tiszakécske

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Match

A bad afternoon for Tiszakécske against Karcag

0‑1 to Karcag, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 109% of the Tiszakécske 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

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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Zoltan Sallai to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

Words exchanged at Tiszakécske

Artem Bezprozvannyi 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 ratings

Bence Pataki runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

186 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

18 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Codrin Oasenegre 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 Tiszakécske can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Dániel Béleczki says Tiszakécske 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.

Match

The wait goes on for Tiszakécske

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Words at Tiszakécske training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Denić 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 Tiszakécske: Robert Tarcsi 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

Andrea Baldetti frozen out at Tiszakécske

This is not rotation. Andrea Baldetti has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Tiszakécske is pretending otherwise.

Match

Tiszakécske come up short against Szentlőrinc

Szentlőrinc left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Zoltan Sallai left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad

Vladimir Dimitrov wants to go home

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

In brief

179 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

31 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Roland Mikló out for 52 days

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

Player ratings

Both of them Bright Edomwonyi's — 9.13

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.13, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Rafael Ranschaert asks to leave Tiszakécske

“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.

Match

The drought breaks for Tiszakécske

7 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Paksi were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Squad

Bright Edomwonyi is slowing down

At 35, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

The terraces

One of their own: Codrin Oasenegre

He is 23 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.

Match

Tiszakécske get the job done against Paksi

A 2‑0 win over Paksi, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Rafael Ranschaert 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.

Boardroom

109% of the income goes out in wages at Tiszakécske

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.

In brief

177 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

17 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Roland Mikló breaks a bone — 68 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 68 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

The wait goes on for Tiszakécske

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Tempers go at Tiszakécske

Vitalii Kuhutiak 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.

Match

Szeged-Csanád GA take the points off Tiszakécske

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Words at Tiszakécske training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rafael Ranschaert 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

The borrowing at Tiszakécske reaches $17.9M

Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $17.9M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Zoltan Sallai left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad

Home is on Vladimir Dimitrov's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Tiszakécske are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Taras Karavayev

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

172 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

12 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

106 days out for Roland Mikló after a fracture

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

Player ratings

Stefan Denić was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 31. 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.

Market

Dániel Balla 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 Tiszakécske can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words at Tiszakécske training over how hard people work

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

Tempers go at Tiszakécske

Rafael Ranschaert 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.

Match

Soroksár take the points off Tiszakécske

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Máté Marosi 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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Zoltan Sallai left the room before anybody could ask which.

Boardroom

Tiszakécske can only buy what they sell

Nobody has barred the club from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every incoming name comes with an outgoing one attached.

In brief

170 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

29 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

120 days out for Roland Mikló after a fracture

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

Player ratings

Bright Edomwonyi scores twice — 9.34

Two goals and a mark of 9.34 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

The dugout

Domonkos Ásványi keeps the receipts

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

Player ratings

Stefan Denić was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. 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

Tiszakécske get the job done against Szentlőrinc

A 3‑1 win over Szentlőrinc, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Vitalii Kuhutiak 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 Tiszakécske this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Hunor Kuzma

At 23 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.

The dugout

Andrea Baldetti frozen out at Tiszakécske

This is not rotation. Andrea Baldetti has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Tiszakécske is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Rafael Ranschaert 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

168 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

15 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Bence Sós 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 Tiszakécske this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Bence Sós is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 35 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Squad

Words at Tiszakécske training over how hard people work

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

No hiding place for Taras Karavayev

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

Squad

Vladimir Dimitrov wants to go home

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

The dugout

Dániel Béleczki 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 Dániel Béleczki is on it.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Bence Pataki

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Kozármisleny in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

Market

Bence Sós linked with a move away

The name of Bence Sós keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tiszakécske say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

Rafael Ranschaert 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 Rafael Ranschaert trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

163 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

10 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: David Dibusz out for 34 days

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

Squad

Vitalii Kuhutiak gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Vitalii Kuhutiak has just signed for Tiszakécske, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

Artem Bezprozvannyi due for a Tiszakécske medical

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

Transfer targets

Ujpest tell Tiszakécske: Ábel Krajcsovics 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

Roland Mikló 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

A falling-out at Tiszakécske

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Rafael Ranschaert

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

Market

Tiszakécske sign Taras Karavayev, one for the future

Taras Karavayev is 17, and Tiszakécske have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Boardroom

Tiszakécske can only buy what they sell

Nobody has barred the club from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every incoming name comes with an outgoing one attached.

In brief

162 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

3 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The small margins put Tiszakécske out

Out, 1‑2 to Budafoki MTE, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Match

No end in sight to Tiszakécske's wait for a win

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

Boardroom

Tiszakécske close the window on a squad of their own making

14 in and 12 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.

Transfer targets

Tiszakécske rebuffed over Mario Simuţ

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

The dugout

Andrea Baldetti frozen out at Tiszakécske

This is not rotation. Andrea Baldetti has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Tiszakécske is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Goal number 50 for Márk Bencze

50 goals in these colours now, every one of them somebody’s memory. There is a supporter in the stand who can tell you where he was for most of them.

Squad

A row about effort at Tiszakécske

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

Match

Tiszakécske rescue it on 93 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 93. Ajka had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Player ratings

Roland Mikló beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

161 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

27 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Rafael Ranschaert 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 Tiszakécske, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Dominik Farkas

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Tiszakécske have done the hard part with ETO Győr, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

A falling-out at Tiszakécske

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Bence Várkonyi

Tiszakécske asked and MTK Budapest 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

Words at Tiszakécske training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roland Mikló 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

A loan move for Csongor Hegedűs is in the works

Tiszakécske have made the call to Nyíregyháza. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad

5 new faces, and Tiszakécske 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.

Player ratings

Aleksander Piasecki was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 14. 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.

The dugout

Dániel Béleczki 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

153 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

2 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Tiszakécske sell their best player to Kisvárda

$640.0K is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Tiszakécske boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Zsombor Lovas asks to leave Tiszakécske

“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.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $640.0K sale of Andrija Čaluković

He is going to Kisvárda, the club has $640.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Squad

Márk Bencze 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 Tiszakécske this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Tiszakécske walk away from Roland Lehoczky

$100.0K was the most the club would pay and BVSC-Zugló were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets

Debrecen tell Tiszakécske: Robert Tarcsi 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

No hiding place for Bright Edomwonyi

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

Squad

Hunor Kuzma 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

151 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

18 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Ádám Szekér sold, and an era ends

$200.0K from Honved for Ádám Szekér. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.

The terraces

Tiszakécske sell a favourite for $200.0K

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Ádám Szekér was one of the reasons people came, and $200.0K does not replace that by itself.

Market

Nyíregyháza come back empty-handed

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

Transfer targets

Tiszakécske rebuffed over Ármin Garamszegi-Géczy

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

Squad

A row about effort at Tiszakécske

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

Market

The ambition of Bright Edomwonyi outgrows Tiszakécske early

Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.

Squad

Tempers go at Tiszakécske

Zsombor Lovas 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Dániel Béleczki

“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.

Squad

The formation has left Bright Edomwonyi behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Tiszakécske will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief

145 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

7 May 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Zoltan Sallai has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Tiszakécske can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market

Ádám Szekér is on his way

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

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Tiszakécske

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Tiszakécske is running low.

Market

Amallah Kaloga asks to leave Tiszakécske

“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.

Boardroom

The Tiszakécske 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.

The dugout

Ádám Bódi frozen out at Tiszakécske

This is not rotation. Ádám Bódi has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Tiszakécske is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Tempers go at Tiszakécske

Ádám Szekér 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 Tiszakécske training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roland Mikló 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

No hiding place for Dániel Béleczki

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

In brief

144 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Andrija Čaluković 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 Tiszakécske can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Tiszakécske

Bence Sós 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 Tiszakécske

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Domonkos Ásványi

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

The dugout

Ádám Szekér 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 Márk Bencze question follows Tiszakécske around

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

Market

Ádám Szekér placed on the list

Tiszakécske have made Ádám Szekér available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Squad

The training reports on Domonkos Ásványi are not good

A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.

Boardroom

The Tiszakécske production line keeps running

21 graduates out of an academy now rated 5 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.

In brief

139 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

26 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Ádám Szekér 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 Tiszakécske, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Josip Klasnić says Tiszakécske 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

Bence Sós 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 Tiszakécske this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Tiszakécske training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roland Mikló 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

No hiding place for Zsombor Lovas

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

Market

No place for Ibrahim Gomis in the plan

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

The dugout

Zsombor Lovas 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 Zsombor Lovas is on it.

The dugout

Ádám Bódi 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 Ádám Bódi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The Ágoston Kiss question follows Tiszakécske around

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

In brief

137 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Logan Williams

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

Match

Full time on the season at Tiszakécske

Position 8 on 37 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.

Market

Only the photograph left for Ádám Szekér

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ádám Szekér will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tiszakécske the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Amallah Kaloga 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 Tiszakécske can pretend not to have heard.

Match

No end in sight to Tiszakécske's wait for a win

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

The dugout

Ádám Bódi frozen out at Tiszakécske

This is not rotation. Ádám Bódi has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Tiszakécske is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Words exchanged at Tiszakécske

Bence Sós 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 Tiszakécske

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

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Dániel Béleczki

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.

In brief

131 Edition

The Kecskeméti TE Gazette

29 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Artem Mylchenko out for 19 days

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

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $370.0K sale of Ádám Czékus

He is going to ZTE, the club has $370.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

Ido Zavaro is on his way

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

Transfer targets

Bruno Fernández is a medical away from Kecskeméti TE

The deal with Villa Dálmine 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.

Boardroom

Kecskeméti TE to lose Ido Zavaro for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Ido Zavaro has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Ádám Merényi 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 Kecskeméti TE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Ádám Czékus moves on

ZTE pay $370.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Kecskeméti TE

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

The dugout

Bálint Szabó faces a manager he fell out with

They have worked together before and it did not end well. Nobody at Kecskeméti TE expects the new manager to have forgotten, least of all Bálint Szabó.

In brief

131 Edition

The Tiszakécske Sentinel

29 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Ádám Szekér asks to leave Tiszakécske

“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

Puskas Akademia come back empty-handed

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

Market

Tiszakécske sign Dániel Béleczki for $100.0K

The paperwork is done: Dániel Béleczki joins from Kecskeméti TE in a deal worth $100.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Tiszakécske

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

The terraces

Tiszakécske spend $100.0K on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $100.0K for Dániel Béleczki, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Match

Tiszakécske cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

A row about effort at Tiszakécske

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Anton Riabokon

Tiszakécske asked and Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 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

Tempers go at Tiszakécske

Ádám Bódi 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.

In brief

123 Edition

The Kecskeméti TE Gazette

4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Artem Mylchenko damages knee ligaments — 80 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 80 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Ádám Merényi signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ádám Merényi and Kecskeméti TE agree another 4 years.

Squad

Ádám Merényi 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 Kecskeméti TE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Kecskeméti TE cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

The dugout

Attila Haris 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.

Match

Kecskeméti TE come up short against BVSC-Zugló

BVSC-Zugló left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Words at Kecskeméti TE training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Pequeno Harbo 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

Andras Szoboszlai: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Player ratings

Ádám Merényi beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

118 Edition

The Kecskeméti TE Gazette

30 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Kecskeméti TE — 7.65

1 for Attila Haris, marked 7.65, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

The dugout

Dániel Béleczki keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Tempers go at Kecskeméti TE

Rokas Lekiatas 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.

Match

Kecskeméti TE get the job done against Paksi

A 1‑0 win over Paksi, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Words at Kecskeméti TE training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Pequeno Harbo 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

Ante Majstorović is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 35 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ruslan Stepaniuk

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

Boardroom

112% of the income goes out in wages at Kecskeméti TE

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.

Squad

Ido Zavaro wants to go home

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

In brief

115 Edition

The Kecskeméti TE Gazette

9 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Joey Groenbast damages knee ligaments — 36 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 36 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

András Szojma has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

Words at Kecskeméti TE training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Pequeno Harbo 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.

Loan watch

Kristóf Pálfi wants to come home

“I did not go to Vasas to sit and watch. I want to come back to Kecskeméti TE and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 15 matches say the rest.

Squad

Gergő Pljesovszki 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 Kecskeméti TE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Attila Haris takes the honours

Marked 7.30 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Kecskeméti TE had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Andras Szoboszlai on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Squad

Bookings catch up with Artem Mylchenko

One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and Kecskeméti TE will feel it on Saturday.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Márton Vattay

“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

110 Edition

The Kecskeméti TE Gazette

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Still nobody has beaten Kecskeméti TE

The unbeaten run reaches 15. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match

Dániel Béleczki sends Kecskeméti TE through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Dániel Béleczki obliged against Paksi. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Kecskeméti TE.

Squad

Laszlo Szoboszlai breaks a bone — 20 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom

Kecskeméti TE write off $389.7K on Barnabás Németh

He arrived for a fee and leaves for a fraction of it. $389.7K of what Kecskeméti TE paid for Barnabás Németh is money the club will not see again, and the boardroom will be asked about it for two seasons.

Market

Gergő Pljesovszki 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 Kecskeméti TE can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 12 signed and 22 gone

That is the business done at Kecskeméti TE until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market

The Honved deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Ádám Czékus reports back to Kecskeméti TE with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Squad

Ádám Merényi 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 Kecskeméti TE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A move Ben Metcalf would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ben Metcalf is living that version at Kecskeméti TE, and it tends to show in the first month.

In brief

100 Edition

The Kecskeméti TE Gazette

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Laszlo Szoboszlai breaks a bone — 98 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 98 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Barnabás Ruisz has said yes to Soroksár

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

Market

Valerii Samar asks to leave Kecskeméti TE

“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

Too dear: Kecskeméti TE walk away from András Németh

$720.0K was the most the club would pay and Puskas Akademia were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

A falling-out at Kecskeméti TE

Barnabás Németh 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 Kecskeméti TE training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bence Varga 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

Diosgyor tell Kecskeméti TE: Bence Daru 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

Ádám Czékus 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.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Dániel Béleczki's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

In brief