Norbert Lang

Striker - Spartak Kostroma
12 Sep 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Norbert Lang

198 Edition

The Spartak Kostroma Gazette

13 May 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Only the photograph left for Giorgy Uridia

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Giorgy Uridia will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Spartak Kostroma the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Daniel Sappa 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 Spartak Kostroma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Norbert Lang out for 15 days

The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Norbert Lang, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Aleksandr Dovgal' 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.

Market

Nikita Demchenko runs his contract down

3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Spartak Kostroma money.

Market

Đorđe Pantelić linked with a move away

The name of Đorđe Pantelić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Spartak Kostroma say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

Back issues
194 Edition

The Spartak Kostroma Gazette

15 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Only the photograph left for Giorgy Uridia

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Giorgy Uridia will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Spartak Kostroma the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Vladislav Lutashev keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Spartak Kostroma may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Daniel Sappa 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 Spartak Kostroma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Norbert Lang signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Norbert Lang and Spartak Kostroma agree another 3 years.

Squad

No hiding place for Aleksandr Dovgal'

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

Market

Đorđe Pantelić linked with a move away

The name of Đorđe Pantelić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Spartak Kostroma say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

193 Edition

The Spartak Kostroma Gazette

8 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Only the photograph left for Nikita Demchenko

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nikita Demchenko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Spartak Kostroma the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Spartak Kostroma

Daniel Sappa 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.

Boardroom

Spartak Kostroma release $3.0M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Market

A long bet from Spartak Kostroma on Norbert Lang

He is 18, and nobody at Spartak Kostroma signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

Norbert Lang signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Norbert Lang commits to Spartak Kostroma for another 3 years.

Squad

No hiding place for Vladislav Lutashev

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

In brief

158 Edition

The MTK Budapest Courier

6 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Gellért Dúzs keeps MTK Budapest in it on his own

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.

Squad

Mihály Kata has been here 10 seasons

257 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Squad

Ádin Molnár 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 MTK Budapest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

MTK Budapest count the cost of losing Marin Jurina

29 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

Ádin Molnár runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Klisman Cake in the eights

A performance of 8.45 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Honours even between MTK Budapest and Honved

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Market

The Ádin Molnár question follows MTK Budapest around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ádin Molnár’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market

MTK Budapest put Miron Mucsányi up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Miron Mucsányi may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief