Bekescsaba U18

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15 Feb 2027
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28 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Laszlo Lisztes has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Bekescsaba can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Squad

Gergő Rácz 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 Bekescsaba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

György Hursán 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 targets

Remo Stars tell Bekescsaba: Lekan Malik is not for sale

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.

Squad

Gábor Megyeri out for 35 days

The medical room confirms 35 days on the sidelines for Gábor Megyeri, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout

No hiding place for Miron Mucsányi

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Miron Mucsányi, and the manager let it.

The dugout

The manager's exit leaves Richárd Nagy exposed

Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Richárd Nagy is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.

Squad

Miron Mucsányi has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Bekescsaba will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Market

The Filip Borsos talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bekescsaba know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

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27 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Bekescsaba sink to position 11

5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Bence Pintér puts it in writing

“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 Bekescsaba, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

Bekescsaba close the window on a squad of their own making

0 in and 1 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets

Stefan Vidaković is a medical away from Bekescsaba

The deal with Radnik Surdulica is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market

János Takács’s move to Vasas falls through

The deal that would have taken János Takács to Vasas has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Bekescsaba with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad

Tempers go at Bekescsaba

Gergő Rácz 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 targets

Ilia Beriashvili stays at MTK Budapest as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Bekescsaba will try again when the window opens; MTK Budapest may not be selling by then.

Transfer targets

Bekescsaba rebuffed over Kirill Kosarev

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Zenit have kept their man, and Bekescsaba go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Words at Bekescsaba training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. István Albert 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.

In brief

26 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Bekescsaba board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Bekescsaba boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Dávid Kelemen puts it in writing

“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 Bekescsaba, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ilia Beriashvili

Bekescsaba 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bekescsaba

Gergő Rácz 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 targets

No deal for Kristóf Papp at that price

Bekescsaba offered $310.0K; Paksi said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

A row about effort at Bekescsaba

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Roland Mikló was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Bekescsaba try to borrow Abdourahman Badamosi

Teplice 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 targets

Bekescsaba ask about Lekan Malik

A loan enquiry to Remo Stars: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

25 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Toon Raemaekers is a medical away from Bekescsaba

The deal with Ferencvaros is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

An offer of $310.0K for Kristóf Papp

Bekescsaba have gone to Paksi 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Bekescsaba

Gergő Rácz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Bekescsaba training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. György Hursán 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 targets

Bekescsaba rebuffed over Artur Garibyan

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rodina have kept their man, and Bekescsaba go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

The Tamás Kiss talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bekescsaba know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

István Albert knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and István Albert trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Dávid Kelemen placed on the list

Bekescsaba have made Dávid Kelemen available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

The dugout

The manager comes out for Tamás Kiss

Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Tamás Kiss has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.

In brief

24 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Bekescsaba agree $1.7M for Ilia Beriashvili

The clubs have shaken hands with MTK Budapest; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bekescsaba

Richárd Zsolnai 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.

Squad

Gergő Rácz 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 targets

Radnik Surdulica tell Bekescsaba: Stefan Vidaković is not for sale

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.

The dugout

Miron Mucsányi 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.

Market

Bence Pintér is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Bekescsaba has been clear about where Bence Pintér stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad

Miron Mucsányi has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Bekescsaba will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

The dugout

Nándor Kóródi 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 Nándor Kóródi has written the date down.

Market

Miron Mucsányi linked with a move away

The name of Miron Mucsányi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Bekescsaba say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

23 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Every point is an argument now for Bekescsaba

Position 11 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Boardroom

Bekescsaba put Laszlo Lisztes on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market

Bálint Szabó 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 Bekescsaba can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Bekescsaba

Gergő Rácz 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 targets

Bekescsaba rebuffed over Dmitry Barkov

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Zenit have kept their man, and Bekescsaba go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Roland Mikló 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 targets

A loan move for Stefan Vidaković is in the works

Bekescsaba have made the call to Radnik Surdulica. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout

No hiding place for Gergő Major

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gergő Major, and the manager let it.

Market

No place for Dávid Kelemen in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Dávid Kelemen has his answer from Bekescsaba; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

22 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Bekescsaba's wait for a win

23 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bekescsaba has to find a result from somewhere.

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Bekescsaba board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Match

11 matches without a goal for Bekescsaba

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 11 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Bekescsaba

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Match

Full time on the season at Bekescsaba

Position 11 on 5 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.

Squad

Tamás Kiss 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 Bekescsaba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

György Hursán 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.

Match

Bekescsaba come up short against Debrecen

Debrecen left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

No hiding place for Gergő Rácz

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gergő Rácz, and the manager let it.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Boardroom Wages eat 88% of everything Bekescsaba earn
  • Player ratings Nándor Kóródi beats them one at a time
21 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Bekescsaba's wait for a win

22 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bekescsaba has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

17 saves: Gergő Rácz was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 17 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

Bekescsaba cannot find the net

10 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Bekescsaba

0‑5 against Ferencvaros, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

Tempers go at Bekescsaba

Tamás Kiss 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Bekescsaba

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gergő Rácz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ádám Viczián

“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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Bekescsaba dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

Laszlo Lisztes faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Laszlo Lisztes after 0‑5, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief

20 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Bekescsaba's wait for a win

21 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bekescsaba has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

9 matches without a goal for Bekescsaba

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 9 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Gergő Rácz

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

György Hursán signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” György Hursán and Bekescsaba agree another 3 years.

Squad

Gergő Rácz 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 Bekescsaba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bekescsaba against Haladas

0‑1 to Haladas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

A row about effort at Bekescsaba

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Roland Mikló was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No place for Gergő Nagy on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Bekescsaba pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

The dugout

No hiding place for Miron Mucsányi

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Miron Mucsányi, and the manager let it.

In brief

19 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Bekescsaba's wait for a win

20 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bekescsaba has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Bekescsaba sink to position 11

5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Boardroom

Bekescsaba spell it out for Laszlo Lisztes

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Laszlo Lisztes has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Match

Bekescsaba cannot find the net

8 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

Tempers go at Bekescsaba

Gergő Rácz 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Bekescsaba

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and György Hursán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Honved take the points off Bekescsaba

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Looking ahead

Bekescsaba face Haladas in the game that matters most

Two sides from the bottom of the table, three points, and an afternoon that will be described afterwards as a relegation decider by whoever loses it.

The dugout

Laszlo Lisztes faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Laszlo Lisztes after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief

18 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Bekescsaba's wait for a win

19 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bekescsaba has to find a result from somewhere.

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Bekescsaba board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Match

Bekescsaba cannot find the net

7 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Bekescsaba

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Bekescsaba is running low.

Squad

Tamás Kiss 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 Bekescsaba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Bekescsaba training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gergő Rácz 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.

Match

Bekescsaba come up short against MTK Budapest

MTK Budapest left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Laszlo Lisztes to a room that had heard them before.

Boardroom

89% of the income goes out in wages at Bekescsaba

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.

In brief

17 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

18 matches without a win for Bekescsaba

The run now stands at 18, and the questions being asked around Bekescsaba are no longer polite ones.

Match

The goals have deserted Bekescsaba

6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Bekescsaba can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

A falling-out at Bekescsaba

Gergő Rácz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Bekescsaba

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Roland Mikló was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No place for Miron Mucsányi on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Bekescsaba pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Bálint Faragó

“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 dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Laszlo Lisztes was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Bekescsaba dressing room was either.

The dugout

A promise honoured for István Albert

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Bekescsaba told István Albert something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Match

Point won or two lost for Bekescsaba?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Fehervar? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

In brief

16 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

17 matches without a win for Bekescsaba

The run now stands at 17, and the questions being asked around Bekescsaba are no longer polite ones.

Match

Bekescsaba cannot find the net

5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

Gergő Rácz 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 Bekescsaba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Tamás Kiss

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Gergő Nagy 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bekescsaba against Ujpest

0‑1 to Ujpest, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Bekescsaba training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. György Hursán 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.

Squad

7 new faces, and Bekescsaba are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

Laszlo Lisztes faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Laszlo Lisztes after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief

15 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

16 matches without a win for Bekescsaba

The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around Bekescsaba are no longer polite ones.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Bekescsaba

Position 12 and 4 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Player ratings

Máté Kotula runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Gábor Megyeri: 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.” Bekescsaba have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Bekescsaba

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Market

As if he never left: András Pusztai returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. András Pusztai is a Bekescsaba player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Squad

A falling-out at Bekescsaba

Tamás Kiss and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Bekescsaba

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gergő Rácz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Bekescsaba come up short against Vasas

Vasas left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

14 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

15 matches without a win for Bekescsaba

The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Bekescsaba are no longer polite ones.

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Bekescsaba board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Bekescsaba boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Gergő Rácz stands alone

6 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.

The dugout

Dávid Kelemen: 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.” Bekescsaba have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bekescsaba

Gergő Rácz 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.

Match

The goals have deserted Bekescsaba

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Bekescsaba can tell you which week it ends in.

Match

Diosgyor take the points off Bekescsaba

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Laszlo Lisztes: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

13 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Bekescsaba's wait for a win

14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bekescsaba has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A falling-out at Bekescsaba

Gergő Rácz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Bekescsaba

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and György Hursán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Bekescsaba

Something was said to Gergő Nagy and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

No hiding place for Bálint Faragó

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bálint Faragó, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Laszlo Lisztes on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Laszlo Lisztes after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Match

Bekescsaba and Paksi cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Paksi came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Looking ahead

Tamás Kiss faces his old club

Diosgyor next, and one man in the Bekescsaba dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

The dugout

Miron Mucsányi 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.

In brief

12 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

13 matches without a win for Bekescsaba

The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Bekescsaba are no longer polite ones.

Match

Chastening afternoon for Bekescsaba

A 0‑3 beating by Puskas Akademia was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bekescsaba

Tamás Kiss 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Bekescsaba

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gergő Rácz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Gergő Rácz

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gergő Rácz, and the manager let it.

Looking ahead

Everything rides on Paksi

Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. Bekescsaba know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Bekescsaba dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Squad

14 new faces, and Bekescsaba are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

Laszlo Lisztes: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

11 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Bekescsaba

12 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

Bekescsaba taken apart

1‑4 to Debrecen, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match

Bekescsaba are in real trouble now

Position 11, 3 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

6 saves: Gábor Megyeri 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.

The dugout

Gergő Bánfalvi: 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.” Bekescsaba have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Ilann Petrisot arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Ilann Petrisot has, at Bekescsaba, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Tempers go at Bekescsaba

Gergő Rácz 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.

Market

Zoltan Nagy steps up from the Bekescsaba academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Zoltan Nagy has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Attila Nikolic steps up from the Bekescsaba academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Attila Nikolic has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief

10 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

11 matches without a win for Bekescsaba

The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Bekescsaba are no longer polite ones.

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Bekescsaba board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Match

Bekescsaba taken apart

0‑6 to Ferencvaros, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bekescsaba

Gergő Rácz 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.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Bekescsaba and Ferencvaros in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Richárd Nagy

“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.

Squad

Words at Bekescsaba training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. György Hursán 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 113% of everything Bekescsaba 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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Bekescsaba dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief

9 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Bekescsaba

10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Gergő Rácz keeps Bekescsaba in it on his own

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.

Squad

A falling-out at Bekescsaba

Gergő Rácz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 91 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Bekescsaba had all but put away. Haladas will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

Squad

Kristóf Sármány 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.

Match

Bekescsaba share the spoils with Haladas

A 1‑1 draw with Haladas leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Bálint Faragó

“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 dugout

Laszlo Lisztes on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Laszlo Lisztes after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Looking ahead

Bekescsaba take on the side everybody is chasing

Ferencvaros arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

In brief

8 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Bekescsaba's wait for a win

9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bekescsaba has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

The goals have deserted Bekescsaba

7 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Bekescsaba can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bekescsaba

Tamás Kiss 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.

Squad

Gergő Rácz 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 ratings

Nobody could get near Tamás Kiss

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Honved take the points off Bekescsaba

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

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 Laszlo Lisztes left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

Gergő Major 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 dugout

The form table has caught István Albert

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

7 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

8 matches without a win for Bekescsaba

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Bekescsaba are no longer polite ones.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Bekescsaba

Position 11 and 2 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Match

The goals have deserted Bekescsaba

6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Bekescsaba can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

A falling-out at Bekescsaba

Tamás Kiss and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Gergő Rácz 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 targets

Bekescsaba rebuffed over Abdourahman Badamosi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Teplice have kept their man, and Bekescsaba go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Dominik Fiola steps up from the Bekescsaba academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dominik Fiola has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Tamas Dibusz joins the Bekescsaba first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tamas Dibusz is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

The dugout

No hiding place for Miron Mucsányi

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Miron Mucsányi, and the manager let it.

In brief

6 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

7 matches without a win for Bekescsaba

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Bekescsaba are no longer polite ones.

Boardroom

Bekescsaba close the window on a squad of their own making

21 in and 1 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Match

5 matches without a goal for Bekescsaba

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Market

Csongor Komáromi 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 Bekescsaba can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bekescsaba

Gergő Rácz 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Gergő Nagy

“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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bekescsaba against Fehervar

0‑1 to Fehervar, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Laszlo Lisztes: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad

A row about effort at Bekescsaba

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kristóf Sármány was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

5 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Bekescsaba break the bank for Bálint Faragó

$600.0K. No player has ever cost Bekescsaba more, and expectation arrives with him.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Gergő Rácz

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

Bekescsaba out of the cup

Honved ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Match

A hiding for Bekescsaba

Beaten 0‑3 by Ujpest, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Match

The wait goes on for Bekescsaba

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market

János Takács asks to leave Bekescsaba

“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.

Market

Ujpest come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Bekescsaba did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Bekescsaba sign Gábor Megyeri for $340.0K

The paperwork is done: Gábor Megyeri joins from Diosgyor in a deal worth $340.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Bekescsaba

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

In brief

4 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Bekescsaba make Tamás Kiss the dearest name in their history

$2.2M. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.

Player ratings

Máté Kotula runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Transfer targets

$600.0K settles it between the clubs for Bálint Faragó

Vasas have accepted the money. What Bekescsaba do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market

Zsombor Borbély 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 Bekescsaba can pretend not to have heard.

Match

No end in sight to Bekescsaba's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bekescsaba has to find a result from somewhere.

Transfer targets

Bekescsaba bid $340.0K for Gábor Megyeri

The offer went to Diosgyor 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.

Squad

Gergő Rácz 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 Bekescsaba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

Bekescsaba spend $2.2M on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $2.2M for Tamás Kiss, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Squad

Gergő Bánfalvi 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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

An offer of $2.2M for Tamás Kiss

Bekescsaba have gone to Anorthosis 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.

Transfer targets

Filip Mevlja will not be coming to Bekescsaba

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at NK Domzale is saying, and nobody at Bekescsaba is enjoying the guessing.

Transfer targets

An offer of $520.0K for Bálint Faragó

Bekescsaba 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Bekescsaba

Gergő Rácz 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bekescsaba against Diosgyor

0‑1 to Diosgyor, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Bekescsaba

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.

The dugout

Laszlo Lisztes answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad

No place for Miron Mucsányi in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Bekescsaba are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Squad

A row about effort at Bekescsaba

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bálint Szabó was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

2 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Bekescsaba let it slip despite Máté Kotula

Máté Kotula had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Paksi were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Transfer targets

Bekescsaba bid $1.6M for Janos Orban

The offer went to Haladas 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Bekescsaba

Richárd Zsolnai 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.

The terraces

$200.0K for Miron Mucsányi, and Bekescsaba supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Miron Mucsányi from Ujpest for $200.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Squad

Gergő Rácz 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 targets

Door shut on Uroš Miladinović

Bekescsaba asked and Cukaricki said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

One of our own: Daniel Fiola joins the Bekescsaba first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Fiola is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Laszlo Lisztes joins the Bekescsaba first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Laszlo Lisztes is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Akos Sallai joins the Bekescsaba first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Akos Sallai is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

1 Edition

The Bekescsaba Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Gergő Bánfalvi

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Richárd Nagy stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Richárd Nagy and Bekescsaba agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

Bekescsaba rebuffed over Hugo Fernández

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Libertad have kept their man, and Bekescsaba go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A row about effort at Bekescsaba

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Richárd Zsolnai was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bekescsaba

Nándor Kóródi 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bekescsaba against Puskas Akademia

0‑2 to Puskas Akademia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market

Bekescsaba and Gergő Nagy are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Market

Nobody at Bekescsaba has picked up the phone to Richárd Nagy

24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

The dugout

Laszlo Lisztes: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief