Marked for Armando Rizzi
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bekescsaba may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market18 Jan 2027
The paperwork is done: Armando Rizzi joins from Haladas in a deal worth $250.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Market18 Jan 2027
The fee is $240.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Diosgyor drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Richárd Zsolnai 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 terraces18 Jan 2027
Bekescsaba spend $250.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $250.0K for Armando Rizzi, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Bekescsaba training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luis Arias 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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Bekescsaba pay $250.0K, 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Haladas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel 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.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
Chastening afternoon for Haladas
A 0‑7 beating by Ujpest was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match14 Sep 2026
Haladas sink to position 12
1 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market14 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Armando Rizzi reports back to Haladas with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Match12 Sep 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Haladas and Ujpest in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Haladas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Doors closed at Haladas
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
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Uneasy
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.
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Balazs Szalai to Vasas has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Haladas with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Daniel 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Laszlo Nagy
7.66, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Haladas had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad7 Sep 2026
6 new faces, and Haladas 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.