The Haladas Chronicle
Squad1 Oct 2035
Joseph Wilcock damages knee ligaments — 125 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 125 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.
Player ratings1 Oct 2035
Both of them Joaquín Jorquera's — 9.22
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.22, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings1 Oct 2035
Viktor Dibusz, 34, rolls back the years — 8.64
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.64 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad1 Oct 2035
Janos Varga 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 Haladas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Oct 2035
David Botka 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.
Match29 Sep 2035
Haladas see off Debrecen
Three points for Haladas, 3‑1 the final word against Debrecen in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad1 Oct 2035
Ryan Lang signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ryan Lang and Haladas agree another 5 years.
Player ratings1 Oct 2035
David Varga runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market1 Oct 2035
Haladas buy the years ahead of Ryan Lang
He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
In brief
- Market Axel Castagne leaves for nothing
- Market Haladas put Roland Sallai up for sale
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Szabolcs Orban