The Honved Sentinel
Squad28 Feb 2028
The knee: David Lang out for 21 days
21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Honved lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match28 Feb 2028
Honved sink to position 10
15 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market28 Feb 2028
Marko Tomić is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Honved is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Words exchanged at Honved
Osman Hadžikić 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.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Szilveszter Hangya 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.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Viktor Lisztes signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Viktor Lisztes commits to Honved for another 3 years.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
Marko Tomić 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.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
Kevin Varga knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kevin Varga trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market28 Feb 2028
The Joel Fameyeh question follows Honved around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Joel Fameyeh’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes István Márk Pekár a promise
- The dugout The manager comes out for Osman Hadžikić