The Haladas Chronicle
The terraces1 Mar 2027
Anger at Haladas spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Pressure builds in the Haladas boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Match1 Mar 2027
Haladas sink to position 10
16 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Bence Gergényi 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Haladas
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Roland Gulacsi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
No hiding place for Roland Gulacsi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roland Gulacsi, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Roland Gulacsi: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Haladas will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
The manager's exit leaves Dávid Bobál exposed
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Dávid Bobál is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A season on the outside for Joey Houweling
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Haladas has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Tamás Fadgyas a promise
- Market The Bence Gazdag talk will not go away
- The dugout Daniel Lang asks for a word with the manager