Marked for Dániel Bartusz
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
Igor Jeličić 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
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Zugdidi have kept their man, and Haladas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Zoltan Orban 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Too much change too quickly at Haladas
9 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.
Squad18 Jan 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 dugout18 Jan 2027
Akos Fiola has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Haladas 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 dugout18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dániel Kalmár, and the manager let it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market18 Jan 2027
The Viktor Orban talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Haladas know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Back issues
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Uneasy
The dugout4 Jan 2027
El Hadji Dieye: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Fehervar have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad4 Jan 2027
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Fehervar have had the benefit of it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Fehervar
Gergely Nagy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Žarko Udovičić 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Paksi have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Diosgyor have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Paksi: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Market4 Jan 2027
No place for Zsolt Kojnok in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Zsolt Kojnok has his answer from Fehervar; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Uneasy
Match24 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Fehervar's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Fehervar has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Fehervar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Žarko Udovičić 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout26 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Daniel Szalai after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Benedek Murka 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
Olivér Hesz is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Fehervar has been clear about where Olivér Hesz stands, which is more than many ever get.
Match24 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Haladas will be the happier side with the point.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
Debrecen next, and one man in the Fehervar dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Steady
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Toronto FC wanted more than $4.5M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. MTK Budapest have kept their man, and Fehervar go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
$600.0K on the table at Ujpest. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
No thanks: Joel Roca rejects the move
Fehervar had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Olympiacos, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Fehervar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Žarko Udovičić 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Janos Orban 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 Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout31 Aug 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Daniel Szalai was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Fehervar dressing room was either.