Marked for Máté Macsó
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Jul 2027
A fracture rules Alex Hrabina out for 76 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Debrecen will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market26 Jul 2027
“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 targets26 Jul 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Debrecen have done the hard part with Vojvodina, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Debrecen
Dermane Karim 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
Business is business: Tamás Farkas goes
BVSC-Zugló paid $260.0K and Debrecen took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Transfer targets26 Jul 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Yacouba Silué 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
11 new faces, and Debrecen 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.
Looking ahead26 Jul 2027
Kisvárda next, and one man in the Debrecen dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market10 May 2027
Dominik Kocsis has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Debrecen they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Debrecen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Blaž Bošković 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.
Squad10 May 2027
The medical room confirms 36 days on the sidelines for Dániel Póser, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Loan watch10 May 2027
“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 Debrecen, and 3 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
Market10 May 2027
The Josua Mejías story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Josua Mejías signs something — a contract at Debrecen or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Loan watch10 May 2027
18 appearances at Bekescsaba and the goals have stopped going in. Debrecen lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.
Market10 May 2027
2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Debrecen could get for him.
The dugout10 May 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Maximilian Hofmann trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Loan watch10 May 2027
The goals keep arriving from Yacouba Silué’s exile
3 goals in 28 games at OFK Beograd — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Debrecen updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Uneasy
Market12 Apr 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Debrecen is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Josua Mejías and Debrecen agree another 4 years.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Balázs Dzsudzsák 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at Debrecen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Blaž Bošković 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 dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Josua Mejías
“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 watch12 Apr 2027
“I watch every Debrecen game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Kozármisleny runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Blaž Bošković 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 Debrecen, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market12 Apr 2027
The name of Josua Mejías keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Debrecen say nothing, which says plenty.
Loan watch12 Apr 2027
6 shut-outs in 18 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Benedek Erdélyi has been having a lot of them.
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Uneasy
Market15 Mar 2027
Only the photograph left for Dominik Kocsis
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Dominik Kocsis will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Debrecen the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad15 Mar 2027
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom15 Mar 2027
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Dominik Kocsis 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Debrecen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Balázs Dzsudzsák was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Debrecen can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Loan watch15 Mar 2027
“I watch every Debrecen game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Kozármisleny runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad15 Mar 2027
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Debrecen has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Loan watch15 Mar 2027
6 shut-outs in 18 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Benedek Erdélyi has been having a lot of them.
Market15 Mar 2027
The name of Josua Mejías keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Debrecen say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Feb 2027
Balázs Dzsudzsák 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.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Debrecen asked and DAC Dunajska Streda said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Debrecen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dominik Kocsis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
“I did not go to Kozármisleny to sit and watch. I want to come back to Debrecen and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad15 Feb 2027
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Debrecen has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Market15 Feb 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ádám Lang’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
16 appearances at Bekescsaba and the goals have stopped going in. Debrecen lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
25 appearances at Lech and the goals have stopped going in. Debrecen lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.
Market15 Feb 2027
Window shut, Ádám Lang still here
Debrecen spent the window trying to move Ádám Lang on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
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Crisis
Market4 Jan 2027
István Oroszi 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 Kozármisleny can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Dmytro Shcherbak 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.
Match2 Jan 2027
Szeged-Csanád GA left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Kozármisleny 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 34 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Balázs Vogyicska 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 dugout4 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Gergő Gajág
“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.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Kozármisleny have made the call to Szeged-Csanád GA. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.