The Haladas Chronicle
Squad7 Jun 2032
Laszlo Fiola damages knee ligaments — 69 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 69 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom7 Jun 2032
Haladas put Interim Coach on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Boardroom7 Jun 2032
The Haladas board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Squad7 Jun 2032
Norbert Fiola 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.
Squad7 Jun 2032
Haladas lose Mate Lisztes
27 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad7 Jun 2032
Words at Haladas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eduard Aristov 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.
Market7 Jun 2032
The Laszlo Gulacsi story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Laszlo Gulacsi signs something — a contract at Haladas or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Boardroom7 Jun 2032
Haladas pull $1.6M back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
Market7 Jun 2032
Szabolcs Gazdag leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Szabolcs Gazdag leaves Haladas the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Market Tamas Dibusz leaves for nothing
- Boardroom The Haladas production line keeps running