Marked for Laszlo Lisztes
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad8 Nov 2027
15 days out for Laszlo Lisztes after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Debrecen will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout8 Nov 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.
Match6 Nov 2027
The wait goes on for Debrecen
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad8 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Debrecen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match6 Nov 2027
A bad afternoon for Debrecen against Honved
1‑2 to Honved, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dénes Szakál, and the manager let it.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Ábel Krajcsovics 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 Nov 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Debrecen are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
In brief
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Loan watch
Tamás Batai wants to come home
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Looking ahead
Debrecen take on the side everybody is chasing
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Nov 2027
A fracture rules Laszlo Lisztes out for 22 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Debrecen will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 31. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Debrecen may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at Debrecen
Đorđe Gordić and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match30 Oct 2027
3 matches without a goal for Debrecen
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Appearance number 200 for Josua Mejías
200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Benedek Erdélyi
“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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Words at Debrecen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fran Manzanara 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.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Mate Bese was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Debrecen dressing room was either.
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Steady
Squad25 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Laszlo Lisztes out for 29 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Debrecen will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market25 Oct 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 Debrecen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad25 Oct 2027
A falling-out at Debrecen
Đorđe Gordić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Tygo Land 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 dugout25 Oct 2027
“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.
Market25 Oct 2027
No place for Álex Bermejo in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Álex Bermejo has his answer from Debrecen; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Squad18 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Laszlo Lisztes out for 37 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Debrecen will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The terraces18 Oct 2027
Supporters organise against the Debrecen board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Botond Vajda beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 30. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market18 Oct 2027
Blaž Bošković hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Debrecen can pretend not to have heard.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Đorđe Gordić 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 Debrecen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Oct 2027
A row about effort at Debrecen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tygo Land was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Yacouba Silué
“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.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Mate Bese was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Debrecen dressing room was either.
Squad18 Oct 2027
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Debrecen will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
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Upbeat
Squad11 Oct 2027
45 days out for Laszlo Lisztes after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Debrecen will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match9 Oct 2027
Bekescsaba will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Debrecen were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
No sign of nerves from Tygo Land at 21 — 8.41
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Tygo Land did not need any: 8.41, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
Botond Vajda goes up and wins it — 7.56
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.56 for the rest of it.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Debrecen
Tygo Land and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
“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 Debrecen, and 3 appearances in 18 say he has earned the hearing.
The terraces11 Oct 2027
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Debrecen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fran Manzanara 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.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
Ninety minutes of Đorđe Gordić at his very best
Marked 8.10. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Debrecen.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad4 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Laszlo Lisztes out for 54 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Debrecen will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Tygo Land 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Benedek Erdélyi commits to Debrecen for another 4 years.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Botond Vajda 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 Debrecen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match2 Oct 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Benedek Erdélyi, and the manager let it.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
Mate Bese faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Mate Bese after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Market4 Oct 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Maximilian Hofmann has his answer from Debrecen; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market27 Sep 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 Debrecen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad27 Sep 2027
62 days out for Laszlo Lisztes after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Debrecen will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Tygo Land 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Botond Vajda 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.
Match25 Sep 2027
The goal that put MTK Budapest ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Debrecen equalised, 2 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
Álex Bermejo 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Too much change too quickly at Debrecen
10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Mate Bese left the room before anybody could ask which.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
The terraces20 Sep 2027
Anger at Debrecen 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 71 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.91, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Tygo Land, 21, steals the show — 8.12
Marked 8.12 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market20 Sep 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Adam Ševínský 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.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match18 Sep 2027
Ujpest made Debrecen work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces20 Sep 2027
The crowd has taken to Tygo Land
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad13 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Laszlo Lisztes out for 81 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Debrecen will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
Fran Manzanara: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Debrecen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market13 Sep 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 Debrecen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Tygo Land pops up at the right end — 7.42
7.42, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Đorđe Gordić 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Tygo Land 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 dugout13 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yacouba Silué, and the manager let it.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Đorđe Gordić beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 45. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Laszlo Lisztes out for 89 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Debrecen will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market6 Sep 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Debrecen can pretend not to have heard.
Market6 Sep 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Márk Szécsi had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market6 Sep 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
The dugout6 Sep 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Window shuts: 22 in, 16 out at Debrecen
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 22 arrived, 16 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
No thanks: Harry Smith rejects the move
Debrecen had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Barnet, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words exchanged at Debrecen
Đorđe Gordić and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Debrecen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
“I watch every Debrecen game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Honved runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad10 Aug 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Debrecen say no — this time
The offer from Ujpest for Dominik Kocsis 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The deal with Universitatea Craiova is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Đorđe Gordić 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 Debrecen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
The shirt still fits. Donát Pálfi is back at Debrecen, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Csanád Vilmos Dénes and Debrecen agree another 5 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. MTK Budapest have kept their man, and Debrecen go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Attila Lang has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.