Marked for David Lisztes
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Steady
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 56 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Age has not caught András Radó yet — 8.02
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.02 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad21 Aug 2028
David Lisztes is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.
Squad21 Aug 2028
András Radó in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vasas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Milán Tóth has improved at 26, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad24 Jul 2028
David Lisztes is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
András Radó in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vasas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Milán Tóth has improved at 26, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
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Crisis
Market17 Jan 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Vasas can pretend not to have heard.
Squad17 Jan 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad17 Jan 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vasas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Jan 2028
Add another name to the list: Puskas Akademia have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Zsombor Molnár. The answer from Vasas has not changed — yet.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Words at Vasas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Máté Ódor 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.
Squad17 Jan 2028
The manager has not finished forgetting Benjámin Cseke's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Steady
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 55. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match25 Aug 2027
Cup progress for Vasas
A 0‑0 win over Paksi, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad30 Aug 2027
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Lazar Radojičić: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Market30 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad30 Aug 2027
András Radó in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vasas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Lazar Radojičić is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
The terraces30 Aug 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Lazar Radojičić 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.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.19 on the card, and the Vasas support went home talking about one name.
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Steady
Squad16 Aug 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market16 Aug 2027
Vasas say no — this time
The offer from Fehervar for Zsombor Molnár 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
András Radó in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vasas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match14 Aug 2027
A bad afternoon for Vasas against Paksi
0‑1 to Paksi, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Martín Arenas 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to David Lisztes, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Jul 2027
Bálint Faragó damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market5 Jul 2027
“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 Vasas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. David Lisztes is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
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Upbeat
Market8 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Patrick Iyinbor 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Vilmos Jován
“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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Upbeat
Squad28 Dec 2026
András Radó in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vasas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Patrick Iyinbor 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to David Lisztes, and the manager let it.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Triumph
Market21 Dec 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Vasas strike at the death to beat Ujpest
There were 87 minutes on the clock and Ujpest had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Vasas did not stop to explain themselves.
Match19 Dec 2026
Nobody wants to play Vasas right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Vasas
Martín Arenas 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 Dec 2026
Ujpest made Vasas work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Martín Arenas
“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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Uneasy
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Vasas
András Radó 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
Kenneth Otigba 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.