A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Nemanja Žunić 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.
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SquadWords at Haladas training over how hard people work
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Haladas will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Roland Dibusz and Haladas agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at Haladas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zsolt Nagy 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
Mate Dibusz returns from a loan that gave him nothing
4 appearances and 0 goals is not a season, it is a year somebody has lost. Whether that is his fault, the borrowing club's or the people who arranged it is the argument the next few weeks will have.
Position 11 and 21 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.
Haladas asked and Skonto said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Nemanja Žunić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Gabor Gazdag 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.
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Bendegúz Kovács has come out of that comparison in the side, and Haladas have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Haladas, another week without a signature from Théo Collin.
Position 11 on 21 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.
“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.
Honved paid $350.0K and Haladas took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabor Gazdag was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Dávid Bobál 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 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 supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Successful dribbles: 12. 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.
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Haladas. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Bendegúz Kovács did not need any: 8.77, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.
He is 19 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.
MTK Budapest made Haladas work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Haladas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bohdan Biloshevskyi 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.
Mate Sallai 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.