Marked for Norbert Dencinger
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Csákvár
Bence Szabó 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 159% of the Csákvár 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Csákvár training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Divaio Bobson 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.
Match30 Nov 2026
Csákvár at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 9, 19 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Match28 Nov 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Vasas leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roland Baracskai, and the manager let it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Dénes Szakály, 38, rolls back the years — 7.80
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.80 at 38, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad5 Oct 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 Csákvár this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 197% of the Csákvár 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Three points for Csákvár, 2‑0 the final word against Bekescsaba in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.40 — 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Dénes Szakály 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Csákvár
7 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Marton Gazdag kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Steady
Match26 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Norbert Dencinger obliged against Ujpest. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Csákvár.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
$370.0K settles it between the clubs for Dániel Winter
Mezőkövesd have accepted the money. What Csákvár do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market31 Aug 2026
Bence Ominger 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 Csákvár can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Csákvár — 7.93
1 for Norbert Dencinger, marked 7.93, 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.
Market31 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $207.0K — a club that wants Bálint Ferencsik enough to be asked twice.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The game went through Vasyl Bundash — 6.65
Marked 6.65 on 14 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vasyl Bundash and Csákvár agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.