Marked for Marcus Olsson
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match24 Feb 2027
The cup run ends for Fehervar
0‑1 against Debrecen, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market1 Mar 2027
“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.
Market1 Mar 2027
Only the photograph left for Olivér Hesz
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Olivér Hesz will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fehervar the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Gergely Nagy 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Fehervar know it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Jan Morávek 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jonathan Cerruti and Fehervar agree another 1 years.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market1 Mar 2027
The Donát Zsótér story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Donát Zsótér signs something — a contract at Fehervar or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
Zsolt Magyar: 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Fehervar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Csaba Spandler 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.
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Uneasy
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 Fehervar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A defender's afternoon for Bence Bedi
Defensive actions: 23. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.93 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match10 Oct 2026
Three points for Fehervar, 1‑0 the final word against Ujpest in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gergő Kocsis 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Benedek Murka, and the manager let it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
The one thing Dávid Zimonyi could not do
Shots: 7, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Krisztián Kovács asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Market28 Sep 2026
Dávid Zimonyi 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 Fehervar can pretend not to have heard.
Match26 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Fehervar
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Fehervar are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 27 days on the sidelines for Jan Morávek, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Gergely Nagy 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Marcus Olsson
Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Uneasy
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market14 Sep 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 Fehervar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market14 Sep 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Fehervar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match12 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Fehervar
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad14 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 Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Marcus Olsson
Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Norbert Balogh asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 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 Fehervar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match5 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Fehervar did not have in the autumn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Csaba Spandler 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
223% of the income goes out in wages at Fehervar
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Dávid Zimonyi
“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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.42 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Zsolt Magyar and Fehervar agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Bekescsaba leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
$1.0M — a new record at Fehervar
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Market31 Aug 2026
Dávid Zimonyi 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 Fehervar can pretend not to have heard.
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 60 days on the sidelines for Jan Morávek, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Márk Dékei
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Marcus Olsson 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gergely Nagy, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 8.22 — 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Fehervar needed to.