The Haladas Chronicle
Squad5 Oct 2026
Bamidele Yusuf 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 Haladas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Dániel Tiefenbach
“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.
Match3 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Haladas against Debrecen
0‑1 to Debrecen, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Kristian Eriksen
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Szabolcs Kleinheisler 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Janos Nikolic to a room that had heard them before.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Kristian Eriksen makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Dániel Tiefenbach does not fit this one
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Looking ahead5 Oct 2026
Olivér Tamás goes back to face Paksi
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Olivér Tamás’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Haladas needing him to play as if none of it matters.
In brief
- The dugout Bamidele Yusuf has been promised minutes
- Squad The academy watches Viktor Orban sit
- Market The Norbert Szalai story refuses to die