3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Robert Sălceanu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Budafoki MTE training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mitar Ergelaš 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.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dávid Kovács. 1‑0 against Szeged-Csanád GA, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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.
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Budafoki MTE told Robert Sălceanu something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
In brief
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The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 94th minute. Tiszakécske will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Barna Kesztyűs 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Mitar Ergelaš 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.
A 2‑1 win over Tiszakécske, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout26 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.” Krisztian Orban kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Adrián Szőke has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Szeged-Csanád GA in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Budafoki MTE scored in the 90th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
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.
Successful dribbles: 23. 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.
Robert Sălceanu 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.
Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Budafoki MTE training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dávid Kálnoki-Kis 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.
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Budafoki MTE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Patrik Posztobányi and Budafoki MTE agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Budafoki MTE training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mitar Ergelaš 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.
At 35, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Márió Németh is on it.
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 7 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Mitar Ergelaš 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.
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 35 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
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.
“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.
7 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.86 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Another one collected away from home
6 on the bounce on the road for Budafoki MTE. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Barna Kesztyűs 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.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Adrián Szőke. 3‑1 against Soroksár, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Adrián Szőke was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.08. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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.
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mitar Ergelaš was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Honved have kept their man, and Budafoki MTE go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Krisztian Orban could afford to be generous.
Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.
“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 Budafoki MTE, and it is not being withdrawn.
5 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.89 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
5 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Budafoki MTE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Budafoki MTE offered $63.0K; Ujpest 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.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Budafoki MTE can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Budafoki MTE close the window on a squad of their own making
15 in and 3 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.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $65.0K — a club that wants Dominik Kaczvinszki enough to be asked twice.
Budafoki MTE have gone to Ujpest 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Partizan have kept their man, and Budafoki MTE go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Budafoki MTE know which stage they are at.
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Budafoki MTE have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
MTK Budapest are out and Budafoki MTE go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match26 Aug 2026
Bertalan Kun wins it after the whistle should have gone
93 minutes played. Bertalan Kun found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and MTK Budapest went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Two goals and a mark of 8.77 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 13 actions, 7.04, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.37 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $25.0K — a club that wants Barnabás Barkóczi enough to be asked twice.
Barna Kesztyűs 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.
$58.0K was the most the club would pay and Vasas were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mitar Ergelaš was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dávid Kovács. 1‑0 against Csákvár, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Budafoki MTE have made the call to Rapid Bucharest. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The 2-goal deficit was real and so was the recovery. Dávid Kovács was at the centre of it, Kecskeméti TE were at the end of it, and everybody who left early will hear about this one for years.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $60.0K — a club that wants Bálint Faragó enough to be asked twice.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Hermannstadt is saying, and nobody at Budafoki MTE is enjoying the guessing.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Vasas have kept their man, and Budafoki MTE go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Budafoki MTE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Budafoki MTE 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.
The offer went to Vasas 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.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Mitar Ergelaš is living that version at Budafoki MTE, and it tends to show in the first month.
Barna Kesztyűs 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Budafoki MTE training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mitar Ergelaš 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.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Krisztian Kleinheisler has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Viktor Sallai 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.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gabor Szoboszlai has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Akos Fiola is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
15 seasons and 215 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Andor Lapu, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.89
A mark of 7.89 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Successful dribbles: 20. 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.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Andor Lapu 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.
András Hársfalvi 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.
Hermannstadt 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.
Sparta Prague 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.
In brief
Transfer targetsA loan move for Matej Grahovac is in the works