Marked for Dávid Bobál
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Jun 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Babacar Diallo
113 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nyíregyháza lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market26 Jun 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market26 Jun 2028
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Nyíregyháza have paid $1.1M for Dániel Veszelinov, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Nyíregyháza have done the hard part with Ujpest, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
The terraces26 Jun 2028
The town asked, and Nyíregyháza paid $1.1M
Dániel Veszelinov was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $1.1M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eneo Bitri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Dávid Bobál 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 Nyíregyháza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Too much change too quickly at Nyíregyháza
10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout26 Jun 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martin Chlumecký, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad8 May 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nyíregyháza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 May 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dávid Bobál commits to Nyíregyháza for another 2 years.
Squad8 May 2028
Words at Nyíregyháza training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Goda 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.
Squad8 May 2028
The medical room confirms 74 days on the sidelines for Dávid Márkvárt, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market8 May 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Mátyás Katona signs something — a contract at Nyíregyháza or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout8 May 2028
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 Ádám Bálint Czimer-Nyitrai is on it.
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Steady
Market20 Mar 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Aleksandar Jovičić will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Nyíregyháza the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eneo Bitri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Dávid Bobál 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.
Loan watch20 Mar 2028
The goals keep arriving from Milán Májer’s exile
9 goals in 29 games at Csákvár — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Nyíregyháza updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
The manager makes an example of Roland Kersák
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
Eneo Bitri 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 Eneo Bitri is on it.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
Urho Nissilä 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 Urho Nissilä trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market20 Mar 2028
Žan Medved linked with a move away
The name of Žan Medved keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Nyíregyháza say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad20 Mar 2028
He goes off to be somebody else’s player for a fortnight. Nyíregyháza lose him for the window and would like him returned in the condition he left.
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Steady
Squad27 Sep 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Babacar Diallo
61 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nyíregyháza lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.11 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Eneo Bitri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match25 Sep 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Bohdan Liedniev. 3‑2 against Kazincbarcika, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Bruno Goda 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.
The terraces27 Sep 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Nemanja Trifunović has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad27 Sep 2027
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Marked 8.12 — 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.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Dec 2026
Dominik Nagy 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Krisztián Keresztes 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
ETO Győr made Nyíregyháza work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Marked 7.74. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 86% of the Nyíregyháza income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bright Edomwonyi, and the manager let it.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Defensive actions: 13, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Looking ahead28 Dec 2026
Kisvárda next, and one man in the Nyíregyháza dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.