Marked for Daniel Nikolic
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Steady
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 46. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Aug 2026
Haladas out of the cup
Ujpest ended it 0‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Norbert Nagy breaks a bone — 31 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market31 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Haladas did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market31 Aug 2026
Laszlo Bese 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Dominik Szalai has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match29 Aug 2026
Puskas Akademia made Haladas work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market31 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Daniel Nikolic again, and this time the name on the line is Ujpest. Haladas are listening politely and promising nothing.
Back issues
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Crisis
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Dominik Szalai takes the afternoon — 8.30
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Dominik Szalai provided it, and the 8.30 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market24 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.
Market24 Aug 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Zsolt Orban has left for Fehervar in a $1.9M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Dominik Szalai 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.
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Steady
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 48. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move John Kitolano would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. John Kitolano is living that version at Haladas, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Haladas have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Attila Dibusz at his very best
Marked 8.30. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Haladas.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Adam Sallai
“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.
Market17 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Haladas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bence Nikolic 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Honved leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.61, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dominik Szalai 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Attila Dibusz 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dominik Szalai. 3‑1 against Vasas, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
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.
Match1 Aug 2026
No time for Vasas to settle
The goal that put Vasas ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Haladas equalised, 3 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Adam Varga commits to Haladas for another 1 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Haladas, and both men came out saying it was fine.