Balazs Sallai

Central Midfielder - Fehervar
7 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Balazs Sallai

3 Edition

The Fehervar Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Fehervar turn down Vasas for Benedek Murka

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Tempers go at Fehervar

Gergely Nagy 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.

The terraces

$320.0K for Balazs Sallai, and Fehervar supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Balazs Sallai from Haladas for $320.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Squad

Csaba Spandler 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Márk Dékei

“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.

Market

Fehervar buy the years ahead of Balazs Sallai

He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad

Gergely Nagy asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Match

Point won or two lost for Fehervar?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Debrecen? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

Market

The shop window has Bence Kovács in it

Fehervar have let the market know Bence Kovács can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Haladas Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Mate Botka runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 52. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Haladas say no — this time

The offer from Ferencvaros for Szabolcs Fiola 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.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $320.0K sale of Balazs Sallai

He is going to Fehervar, the club has $320.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Squad

Tempers go at Haladas

Balazs Botka 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.

Market

Business is business: Balazs Sallai goes

Fehervar paid $320.0K and Haladas took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

David Botka 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 terraces

Haladas supporters have found a favourite in Mate Botka

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Mate Botka 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.

Squad

Balazs Botka gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Akos Fiola sends Haladas past Honved

It finished 1‑0, and it was Akos Fiola’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Haladas.

In brief

2 Edition

The Haladas Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mate Botka

Successful dribbles: 46. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Honved come back empty-handed

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.

Market

Ferencvaros join the queue for Szabolcs Fiola

Add another name to the list: Ferencvaros have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Szabolcs Fiola. The answer from Haladas has not changed — yet.

Squad

Balazs Botka stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Balazs Botka and Haladas agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Haladas

Balazs Botka 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.

Squad

David Botka 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Szabolcs Fiola

“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.

Player ratings

Gabor Gulacsi ran the middle of the pitch — 6.53

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 6.53, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

Match

Honours even between Haladas and Fehervar

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief