Marked for Viktor Lisztes
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ilya Branovets damages knee ligaments — 156 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 156 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Leonardo Terán out for 72 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Slutsk will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market16 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slutsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Slutsk may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Slutsk
Vladislav Fedosov 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Vladislav Fedosov signs something — a contract at Slutsk or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Market5 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slutsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Slutsk
Vladislav Fedosov 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Kevin Díaz 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.
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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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Daniel Nagy 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Dominik Orban 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
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.31 on the card, and the Haladas support went home talking about one name.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adam Szalai, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Slutsk's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Slutsk has to find a result from somewhere.
Market21 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slutsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Slutsk
Vladislav Fedosov 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
Viktor Lisztes gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Viktor Lisztes has just signed for Slutsk, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Artem Tolkin
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
ThankGod Ekawu 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
A performance of 8.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match19 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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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.