Marked for Patrick Iyinbor
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market8 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Vasas can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Vasas
Dominik Kocsis 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Vasas will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Vasas
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patrick Iyinbor was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad8 Feb 2027
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Csaba Molnár gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Sándor Hidi M. knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Vasas, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market8 Feb 2027
The János Uram story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until János Uram signs something — a contract at Vasas or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Market18 Jan 2027
Vasas say no — this time
The offer from Puskas Akademia for Zsombor Molnár was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Vasas had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Ferencvaros, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Vasas
András Radó 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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Vasas asked and Spartak Moscow said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market18 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Vasas have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Vasas
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patrick Iyinbor was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Vojvodina: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
A loan move for Gergő Bodnár is in the works
Vasas have made the call to Ujpest. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market18 Jan 2027
Victor Gey linked with a move away
The name of Victor Gey keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Vasas say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Match28 Dec 2026
Vasas finish in position 8
27 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Match26 Dec 2026
8 matches without a win for Vasas
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Vasas are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Vasas
Dominik Kocsis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Patrick Iyinbor 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 dugout28 Dec 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 David Gulacsi left the room before anybody could ask which.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 88% of everything Vasas earn
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 dugout28 Dec 2026
Tamás Markek dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Uneasy
Match5 Dec 2026
5 matches without a win for Vasas
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Vasas are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad7 Dec 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 Vasas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Patrick Iyinbor 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Milán Tóth makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Kenneth Otigba
“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 dugout7 Dec 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” David Gulacsi after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
János Uram knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Vasas, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Match21 Nov 2026
Honved punish Vasas for switching off
3 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Milán Tóth will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Vasas escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.41 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.95, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad23 Nov 2026
6 saves: János Uram was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match21 Nov 2026
Vasas come up short against Honved
Honved left with the points after a 4‑5 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Vasas
András Radó 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
13 goals and a season average of 7.27. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Szabolcs Mezei 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Patrick Iyinbor
“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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Dušan Jovanović at 20 — 7.69
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Dušan Jovanović did not need any: 7.69, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match3 Oct 2026
Vasas make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Vasas have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
András Radó 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 Vasas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match3 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Milán Tóth’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Vasas.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Kenneth Otigba 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Milán Tóth was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.02. 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 118% of everything Vasas earn
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 dugout5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Patrick Iyinbor
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Patrick Iyinbor has come out of that comparison in the side, and Vasas have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 19 in, 3 out at Vasas
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 19 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Vasas will try again when the window opens; Deportivo Tachira may not be selling by then.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Vasas
Dominik Kocsis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match5 Sep 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Vasas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kenneth Otigba 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
Marked 8.07 — 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Bence Banó-Szabó 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.