The MTK Budapest Courier
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
Nobody could get near Ádin Molnár
Successful dribbles: 50. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad4 Sep 2028
József Balázs decides it from twelve yards
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match30 Aug 2028
MTK Budapest march on in the cup
Vasas are out and MTK Budapest go through, 0‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Peter Lang breaks a bone — 41 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Vladislav Yatskevich keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” MTK Budapest may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Jakub Plšek 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.
The terraces4 Sep 2028
The crowd has taken to Losika Ratshukudu
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match2 Sep 2028
MTK Budapest get the job done against Ujpest
A 1‑0 win over Ujpest, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
A masterclass from Róbert Polievka
Marked 8.36 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Player ratings The kick that got away from Abdelrahman Yousif
- Market A long bet from MTK Budapest on Dominik Lang
- Market MTK Budapest sign Peter Nagy, one for the future