The MTK Budapest Courier
Squad22 Mar 2027
The knee: Norbert Orban out for 44 days
44 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. MTK Budapest lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at MTK Budapest
Valentín Dávila 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A row about effort at MTK Budapest
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mihály Kata was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market22 Mar 2027
One of our own: Akos Lisztes joins the MTK Budapest first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Akos Lisztes is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market22 Mar 2027
David Nagy steps up from the MTK Budapest academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. David Nagy has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market22 Mar 2027
One of our own: Mate Szalai joins the MTK Budapest first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mate Szalai is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market22 Mar 2027
MTK Budapest promote Akos Fiola from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Akos Fiola 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
5 MTK Budapest players away with their countries
The training ground goes quiet for a fortnight. 5 men have gone off to be somebody else’s players, and the manager is left with the ones nobody has called.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Zalán Kerezsi gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Zalán Kerezsi is on it.
In brief
- Match MTK Budapest have something to play for
- The dugout Ádin Molnár has been promised minutes