Marked for Akos Szoboszlai
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Haladas's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Haladas has to find a result from somewhere.
Market21 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Haladas can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Janos Dibusz 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ramiro Di Luciano 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Sep 2026
It needed Viktor Nikolic to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against MTK Budapest, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
Nowhere to hide for Haladas
0‑4 against Ujpest, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Haladas can pretend not to have heard.
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Haladas
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Haladas are no longer polite ones.
Match14 Sep 2026
Every point is an argument now for Haladas
Position 11 and 4 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad14 Sep 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Haladas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ramiro Di Luciano 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Haladas are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Akos Szoboszlai
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Norbert Lisztes 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Haladas
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Haladas are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
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 Haladas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 Sep 2026
Bekescsaba pay $180.0K, 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Viktor Nikolic scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Diosgyor, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 15 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑6 by Puskas Akademia, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Match26 Aug 2026
The small margins put Haladas out
Out, 2‑3 to Ujpest, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match26 Aug 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for Haladas
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Ujpest kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Haladas will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Haladas
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.
Market31 Aug 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 Haladas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Adam Nagy, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.64
A mark of 7.64 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match29 Aug 2026
Laszlo Botka among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Laszlo Botka on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Haladas and Puskas Akademia.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Haladas training over how hard people work
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Squad
David Bese gets it from the manager
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Boardroom
Inquest at Haladas
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Laszlo Botka and Haladas agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Janos Dibusz 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 Haladas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Adam 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Akos Szoboszlai, and the manager let it.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Laszlo Botka
A mark of 7.64, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.