Marked for Fortune Bassey
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market5 Jul 2027
$800.0K — a new record at Fehervar
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Market5 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Fortune Bassey 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Bence Kovács is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The terraces5 Jul 2027
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Barnabás Németh from Vasas for $800.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at Fehervar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Csaba Spandler is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad28 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Bálint Rideg is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Jun 2027
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
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Squad
Words at Fehervar training over how hard people work
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Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
Zsolt Haraszti damages knee ligaments — 55 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 55 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The fee is $1.1M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Ferencvaros drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Gergely Nagy 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 Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces11 Jan 2027
Fehervar spend $1.1M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $1.1M for Fortune Bassey, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Bence Bedi 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexis Ordóñez and Fehervar agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Upbeat
Squad11 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Aleksandar Pešić
47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ferencvaros lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market11 Jan 2027
Fortune Bassey has left for Fehervar in a $1.1M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Dénes Dibusz 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 Ferencvaros this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Ferencvaros training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Callum O'Dowda is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market11 Jan 2027
The phone has started ringing about Bence Ötvös again, and this time the name on the line is Puskas Akademia. Ferencvaros are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market11 Jan 2027
Fehervar are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Ferencvaros will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Upbeat
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 45. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Toon Raemaekers
138 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ferencvaros lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ferencvaros win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 95th minute. Vasas will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Match14 Sep 2026
Ferencvaros refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 13 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.30 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ferencvaros this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market14 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Gergő Szécsi to Fehervar has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Ferencvaros with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Callum O'Dowda 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Gabi Kanichowsky. 2‑1 against Vasas, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 57. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Toon Raemaekers damages knee ligaments — 146 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 146 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ferencvaros can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mariano Gómez 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Marius Corbu reports back to Ferencvaros with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Match5 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Callum O'Dowda. 2‑0 against Paksi, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Ferencvaros training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Júlio Romão is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Callum O'Dowda was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.21. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Steady
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market24 Aug 2026
The chase for Viktor Botka ended with $3.2M changing hands and Haladas out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market24 Aug 2026
Ismaïl Aaneba hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ferencvaros can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Dénes Dibusz 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 Ferencvaros this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Viktor Botka from Haladas for $3.2M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Ferencvaros training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Callum O'Dowda is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match22 Aug 2026
Jonathan Levi scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Haladas, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Market24 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Barnabás Nagy again, and this time the name on the line is Diosgyor. Ferencvaros are listening politely and promising nothing.
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Upbeat
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.26 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Dénes Dibusz 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
MTK Budapest made Ferencvaros work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Júlio Romão 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Ferencvaros know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market17 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Ferencvaros will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market17 Aug 2026
Attila Osváth is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Ferencvaros has been clear about where Attila Osváth stands, which is more than many ever get.