Marked for Viktor Kleinheisler
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match3 Oct 2026
A European night to forget for Haladas
0‑5. Porto play this football every year and it showed in every part of the pitch. The lesson is expensive and, for a club at this stage, probably necessary.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Haladas may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Haladas
Attila Orban 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Haladas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Istvan Kleinheisler 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.
Match1 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
No place for Attila Orban on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Haladas pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Match26 Sep 2026
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A brace, and Gabor Gulacsi takes the afternoon — 8.70
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Gabor Gulacsi provided it, and the 8.70 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market28 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
The drought breaks for Haladas
6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Bekescsaba were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Gabor Kleinheisler 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Roland Gazdag at his very best
Marked 8.40. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Haladas.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Roland Gazdag 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 ratings28 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.
In brief
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Squad
Janos Gazdag signs on for more
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Gabor Gulacsi has become a man the manager trusts
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Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
A European lesson for Haladas
2‑4 against FC Nordsjaelland. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.49 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad21 Sep 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match19 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for Haladas
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Haladas are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Barna Kesztyűs 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Haladas and FC Nordsjaelland in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Attila 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.
Match17 Sep 2026
Bence Kleinheisler scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Dila, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
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Triumph
Match8 Aug 2026
Fehervar will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Haladas were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Sandefjord had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market10 Aug 2026
Janos Sallai 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Szabolcs Szoboszlai commits to Haladas for another 4 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Paksi wanted more than $540.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Haladas
Barna Kesztyűs 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Attila 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Haladas asked and Olimpija Ljubljana said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.