It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vasas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vasas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vasas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benjámin Cseke 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.
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
A 2‑1 win over Paksi, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match26 Aug 2026
Vilmos Jován wins it after the whistle should have gone
100 minutes played. Vilmos Jován found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Paksi went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Vilmos Jován did not need any: 7.63, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Armando Vargas 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.
At 19 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.
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.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Francisco Galván has just signed for Vasas, and for once the answer mattered.
1 for Patrick Iyinbor, marked 7.87, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Estudiantes did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $470.0K for Francisco Galván, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Armando Vargas 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.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Vasas spend $470.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $470.0K for Francisco Galván, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.