Viktor Nagy

Striker - Haladas
20 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Viktor Nagy

7 Edition

The Haladas Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Haladas refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 12 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market

The Bekescsaba deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Viktor Nagy reports back to Haladas with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Match

Haladas come up short against Ujpest

Ujpest left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

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.

Player ratings

Gustavo Neves runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

No hiding place for Norbert Szélpál

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Norbert Szélpál, and the manager let it.

Loan watch

Adam Fiola has seen enough of Debrecen

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Haladas, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Peter Nagy 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.

Squad

Szabolcs Fiola named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Szabolcs Fiola has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Haladas Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mate Botka

Successful dribbles: 58. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Haladas march on in the cup

Ujpest are out and Haladas go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match

Istvan Fiola breaks Ujpest hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Istvan Fiola scored in the 87th minute, Ujpest had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Haladas took the lot.

Market

Viktor Nagy puts it in writing

“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 Haladas, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Haladas say no — this time

The offer from Bekescsaba for Viktor Nagy 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Haladas

Andras Bese 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.

Match

Whatever happens, Haladas do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Match

Haladas see off Puskas Akademia

Three points for Haladas, 2‑0 the final word against Puskas Akademia in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Balazs Botka

Marked 8.27 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

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