11 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.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Vitaliy Bolshakov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Haladas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bence Gergényi 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.
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 7.38, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Gabor Fiola is on it.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Mate Orban chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
0‑6 against FC Copenhagen. The honest reading is not that the players were poor; it is that the distance between this club and that one is currently measured in things money takes years to buy.
10 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.
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.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Haladas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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.
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Haladas and FC Copenhagen, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Two goals and a mark of 9.21 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
0‑2 away to the standard of Elche. 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.
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.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Marton Botka. 2‑1 against Fehervar, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Gerardo Natale provided it, and the 8.12 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Haladas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Haladas and Vasas, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Nobody at Haladas will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Mate Orban chose the glass-half-full version of 3‑3; the supporters left with the other one.
In brief
SquadWords at Haladas training over how hard people work
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The fee is $250.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Honved drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
$73.0K was the most the club would pay and Vasas were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Bence Varga was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $250.0K. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
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.
The offer from Puskas Akademia for Vitaliy Bolshakov 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.
The clubs have shaken hands with Honved; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $77.9K — a club that wants Bálint Faragó enough to be asked twice.
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Vitaliy Bolshakov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Haladas have gone to Vasas with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Honved have kept their man, and Haladas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Marton Botka. 2‑1 against Honved, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Obolon had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
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.
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Haladas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bence Gergényi 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.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Marton Botka. 2‑1 against Fehervar, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.