David Botka

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714 Edition

The Vasas Sentinel

2 Apr 2040
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom2 Apr 2040

Interim Coach has until the next board meeting

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

Squad2 Apr 2040

Krisztian Lang breaks a bone — 16 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad2 Apr 2040

Bence Bodnár: 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.” Vasas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad2 Apr 2040

Tempers go at Vasas

Vilmos Jován 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.

Squad2 Apr 2040

Vasas lose David Botka

14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Boardroom2 Apr 2040

86% of the income goes out in wages at Vasas

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

  • Boardroom $901.0K taken back off the Vasas table
  • Market Vasas and Bence Bodnár are talking past each other
  • Boardroom The Vasas production line keeps running
Back issues
710 Edition

The Vasas Sentinel

5 Mar 2040
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom5 Mar 2040

Vasas spell it out for Interim Coach

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Squad5 Mar 2040

Krisztian Lang breaks a bone — 44 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad5 Mar 2040

16 seasons of János Uram

337 appearances across 16 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Vasas know what they have.

Squad5 Mar 2040

David Botka keeps the receipts

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

Squad5 Mar 2040

Tempers go at Vasas

Patrick Iyinbor 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.

Boardroom5 Mar 2040

92% of the income goes out in wages at Vasas

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

  • Boardroom $901.0K taken back off the Vasas table
  • Boardroom The Vasas production line keeps running
685 Edition

The Vasas Sentinel

12 Sep 2039
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match12 Sep 2039

Vasas sink to position 12

5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad12 Sep 2039

Tempers go at Vasas

Patrick Iyinbor 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.

Match10 Sep 2039

Vasas 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.

Match10 Sep 2039

A bad afternoon for Vasas against Ferencvaros

1‑2 to Ferencvaros, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad12 Sep 2039

No hiding place for János Uram

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

Squad12 Sep 2039

Serhii Zaiets 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.

Market12 Sep 2039

Vasas and Thomas Cousin 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.

Squad12 Sep 2039

A promise honoured for David Botka

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Vasas told David Botka something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Market12 Sep 2039

Kirill Apanasevich runs his contract down

1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Vasas money.

In brief