92 minutes played. Barnabás Barkóczi found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Mezőkövesd went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Barnabás Barkóczi 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.
Áron Doktorics 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dominik Sztojka was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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.
“I watch every Vasas game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at OFK Beograd runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Patrik Kovács has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Bence Pethő
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Bence Pethő has come out of that comparison in the side, and Vasas have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Mate Nikolic chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Budafoki MTE defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
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.
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Szabolcs Mezei was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Marked 8.01 — 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.
Dominik Sztojka 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.
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Ajka in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Szabolcs Kátai is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Stefan Radojičić 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dominik Sztojka was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.
Szentlőrinc next, and one man in the Vasas dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Nobody at Vasas will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Vasas people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Szabolcs Mezei 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.
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.
Something was said to András Radó and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Mate Nikolic left the room before anybody could ask which.