Marked for David Lang
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match7 Nov 2026
16 matches without a win for Haladas
The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around Haladas are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Nov 2026
34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Haladas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match9 Nov 2026
Haladas 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A one-man rearguard from Roland Lang
There were 7 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Haladas cannot find the net
5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Haladas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zoltan Fiola 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.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
The crowd has taken to Roland Lang
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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Ferencvaros left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Haladas
12 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.
Match12 Oct 2026
Every point is an argument now for Haladas
Position 12 and 4 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every Haladas game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Debrecen runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Match10 Oct 2026
Paksi left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Uneasy
Match1 Oct 2026
Debrecen come up short in Europe
0‑1 away to the standard of St. Gallen. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.
Market5 Oct 2026
Fabio Daprelà 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 Debrecen can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.06, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match3 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for Debrecen
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Debrecen are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Oct 2026
David Lang is a better footballer than he was
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Matyáš Vojta 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
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Debrecen are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
At 21 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Ádám Lang
“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.
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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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Crisis
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market7 Sep 2026
The bid was some way short and Debrecen did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Patrik Demjén 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
David Lang is a better footballer than he was
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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match5 Sep 2026
Puskas Akademia left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Fran Manzanara
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Blaž Bošković 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Debrecen needed to.
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Crisis
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Nagy and Haladas agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roland Lang, and the manager let it.
Match8 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Fehervar, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.