The Ajka Courier
Market29 May 2028
Máté Gyurkó asks to leave Ajka
“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.
Squad29 May 2028
A falling-out at Ajka
Bálint Kártik and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom29 May 2028
Ajka counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Ajka now.
Squad29 May 2028
Nikolasz Nagy 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.
Boardroom29 May 2028
Wages swallow 90% of the Ajka 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 dugout29 May 2028
Daniil Doleček 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 dugout29 May 2028
Nikolasz Nagy 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.
Market29 May 2028
Krisztián Kirchner linked with a move away
The name of Krisztián Kirchner keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Ajka say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout29 May 2028
A door opens for Elysée Ntambu Mvaka
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
In brief
- Squad More bad news for Hunor Németh
- Squad Andras Kleinheisler is fit again