David Botka

Striker - MTK Budapest
24 Nov 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for David Botka

13 Edition

The MTK Budapest Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Still nobody has beaten MTK Budapest

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Tempers go at MTK Budapest

Jakub Plšek 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.

Squad

Mihály Kata 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.

Match

MTK Budapest find a way past Honved

Honved made MTK Budapest work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Rodrigo Burgos gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Jakub Plšek

A mark of 7.90, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Haladas Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Zoltan Lang

Successful dribbles: 43. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Roland Lang

There were 9 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.

Match

Haladas bow out of the cup

Ujpest go through and Haladas go home, 2‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings

Adam Nagy scores twice — 8.44

Two goals and a mark of 8.44 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Haladas say no — this time

The offer from Ujpest for Mate Sallai was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Match

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.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $780.0K sale of David Botka

He is going to MTK Budapest, the club has $780.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

Roland Szalai hands in a written request

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Haladas

Daniel Nagy 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.

In brief

5 Edition

The MTK Budapest Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

MTK Budapest march on in the cup

Diosgyor are out and MTK Budapest go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match

Cup progress for MTK Budapest

A 4‑0 win over Diosgyor, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Vilius Armalas pops up at the right end — 7.72

7.72, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Market

MTK Budapest get their man

The chase for David Botka ended with $780.0K changing hands and Haladas out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Player ratings

Róbert Polievka runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at MTK Budapest

Jakub Plšek 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Octavio Bianchi

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.98, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Zalán Kerezsi

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Diosgyor blown away early

There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Diosgyor tried to reorganise, MTK Budapest did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.

In brief