Mate Botka

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
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Marked for Mate Botka

43 Edition

The Haladas Chronicle

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 May 2027

Words at Haladas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ognjen Ugrešić 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.

Squad24 May 2027

A falling-out at Haladas

Mate Lisztes and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout24 May 2027

When it matters, David Szalai plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

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37 Edition

The Haladas Chronicle

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Apr 2027

Haladas count the cost of losing Mate Botka

39 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad12 Apr 2027

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.

Squad12 Apr 2027

Words at Haladas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ognjen Ugrešić 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.

Loan watch12 Apr 2027

Daniel Bese keeps scoring at Atromitos

19 appearances away from home and 11 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Squad12 Apr 2027

Emanuele Granziera wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Haladas can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout12 Apr 2027

When it matters, Bence Dibusz plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market12 Apr 2027

The Norbert Gulacsi story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Norbert Gulacsi signs something — a contract at Haladas or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout12 Apr 2027

Andras Sallai knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Andras Sallai trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout12 Apr 2027

The manager comes out for Dávid Bobál

Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Dávid Bobál has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.

In brief