Marked for Dávid László
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Karcag, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Karcag
Novak Gojkov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Máté Vida and Karcag agree another 3 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 36 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Gábor Megyeri has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Karcag 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Karcag know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Ábel Győri has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Ábel Győri has written the date down.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
Janos Szoboszlai damages knee ligaments — 17 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 17 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Karcag training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Novak Gojkov 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.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Radnik Surdulica have kept their man, and Karcag go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match19 Sep 2026
Budafoki MTE left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Sep 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 Karcag this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Dávid László ran the middle of the pitch — 7.10
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 7.10, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Janos Szoboszlai damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Lazar Stojanović at 19 — 7.65
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Lazar Stojanović did not need any: 7.65, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Karcag
Novak Gojkov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Karcag asked and ETO Győr said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Lazar Stojanović 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dávid László. 2‑0 against Csákvár, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Dávid László
A mark of 7.85, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Crisis
Market24 Aug 2026
Dávid Székely 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 Karcag can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Vasas wanted more than $1.2M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Karcag's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Karcag has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Karcag
Novak Gojkov 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Karcag asked and MTK Budapest said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match22 Aug 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Karcag
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Match22 Aug 2026
Dávid László scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Honved, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad24 Aug 2026
No place for Novak Gojkov in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Karcag are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $1.2M for Victor Gey
Karcag have gone to Vasas with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market17 Aug 2026
Karcag say no — this time
The offer from Ajka for Máté Vida 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.4M — a club that wants Victor Gey enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The offer went to Kisvárda this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Karcag
Donát Pálfi 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Karcag
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Novak Gojkov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match15 Aug 2026
Dávid László scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Vasas, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad17 Aug 2026
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.