David Lang

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Marked for David Lang

52 Edition

The Szentlőrinc Gazette

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Jean-Pascal Fontaine damages knee ligaments — 82 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 82 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.

Squad

A fracture rules David Lang out for 18 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Szentlőrinc will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Arnold Ambach 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 Szentlőrinc can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A falling-out at Szentlőrinc

Jean-Pascal Fontaine and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Szentlőrinc rebuffed over Kuba Szabłowski

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Chrobry Głogów have kept their man, and Szentlőrinc go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Loan watch

Attila Ákos Tarcson wants to come home

“I did not go to Fehervar to sit and watch. I want to come back to Szentlőrinc and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

Squad

Meshack Vondolie is a square peg at Szentlőrinc

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Boardroom

The numbers do not look good at Szentlőrinc

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Market

Patrik Nyári told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Patrik Nyári has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Szentlőrinc.

In brief

Back issues
51 Edition

The Szentlőrinc Gazette

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jean-Pascal Fontaine

90 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Szentlőrinc lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

David Lang breaks a bone — 26 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Words exchanged at Szentlőrinc

Jean-Pascal Fontaine 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.

Market

Business is business: Bendegúz Héninger goes

Csákvár paid $130.0K and Szentlőrinc took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Transfer targets

Chernomorets tell Szentlőrinc: Lucas Neverdal is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Jean-Pascal Fontaine

“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.

Squad

Denys Vakulyk out for 30 days

The medical room confirms 30 days on the sidelines for Denys Vakulyk, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Transfer targets

Szentlőrinc ask about Meshack Vondolie

A loan enquiry to Borac Čačak: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout

Erik Czérna knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Szentlőrinc, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

50 Edition

The Szentlőrinc Gazette

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Jean-Pascal Fontaine damages knee ligaments — 98 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 98 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.

Squad

David Lang breaks a bone — 33 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 33 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Szentlőrinc say no — this time

The offer from Kisvárda for Aleksandar Rac 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.

Market

Bendegúz Héninger 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 Szentlőrinc can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

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 Szentlőrinc this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Alexandros Tzamalis

Szentlőrinc asked and Zeleznicar Pancevo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Szentlőrinc try to borrow Alexandros Tzamalis

Zeleznicar Pancevo have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Szentlőrinc try to borrow Lucas Neverdal

Chernomorets have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 86% of the Szentlőrinc income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

In brief

49 Edition

The Szentlőrinc Gazette

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jean-Pascal Fontaine

106 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Szentlőrinc lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A fracture rules David Lang out for 40 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Szentlőrinc will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Patrik Nyári 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 Szentlőrinc, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Máté Adamcsek out for 17 days

The medical room confirms 17 days on the sidelines for Máté Adamcsek, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Transfer targets

Leon Myrtaj is a medical away from Szentlőrinc

The deal with Debrecen 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.

Market

Eyes on Aleksandar Rac again

The phone has started ringing about Aleksandar Rac again, and this time the name on the line is Kisvárda. Szentlőrinc are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Tempers go at Szentlőrinc

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.

Transfer targets

Szentlőrinc try to borrow Alexandros Tzamalis

Zeleznicar Pancevo have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Boardroom

Intake day at the Szentlőrinc academy

4 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.

In brief