From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Csákvár
Krisztián Keresztes 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Csákvár training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dénes Szakály 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 terraces8 Feb 2027
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match6 Feb 2027
It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Match6 Feb 2027
Tiszakécske made Csákvár work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Zalán Vancsa was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.39. 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 dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Márk Helembai
“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 dugout8 Feb 2027
No place for Dénes Szakály 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 Csákvár pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
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Uneasy
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Csákvár
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match30 Jan 2027
5 matches without a win for Csákvár
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Csákvár are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Window shuts: 7 in, 2 out at Csákvár
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 7 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Csákvár
Zalán Vancsa 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Krisztián Keresztes 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 ratings1 Feb 2027
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.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shirak have kept their man, and Csákvár go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces1 Feb 2027
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“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.
In brief
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Squad
This league is too small for Krisztián Keresztes
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Boardroom
Wages eat 105% of everything Csákvár earn
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Squad
7 new faces, and Csákvár are still learning each other
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market25 Jan 2027
$2.4M. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.
Market25 Jan 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.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Luka Kljajić pops up at the right end — 7.97
7.97, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Csákvár may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Zalán Vancsa beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Everything agreed with Puskas Akademia, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Match23 Jan 2027
4 matches without a win for Csákvár
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Csákvár are no longer polite ones.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Zalán Vancsa 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 terraces25 Jan 2027
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: Krisztián Keresztes from Nyíregyháza for $2.4M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
$2.4M settles it between the clubs for Krisztián Keresztes
Nyíregyháza have accepted the money. What Csákvár do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market18 Jan 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Csákvár people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Zalán Vancsa 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 Csákvár this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Csákvár training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dénes Szakály 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 targets18 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Diosgyor have kept their man, and Csákvár go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Vasas 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The formation has left Ruben Rosa behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Csákvár will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Csákvár may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Abdel Jelil Ahamat is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Csákvár
Zalán Vancsa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nyíregyháza have kept their man, and Csákvár go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Luka Lazin 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 34 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad11 Jan 2027
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.60 on the card, and the Csákvár support went home talking about one name.
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Crisis
Market4 Jan 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The step up is real for Luka Lazin
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Csákvár
Zalán Vancsa 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Everybody at Csákvár saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 38 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Nenad Kočović falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ujpest have kept their man, and Csákvár go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match2 Jan 2027
Mezőkövesd left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Luka Kljajić beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market4 Jan 2027
Márk Helembai is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Csákvár has been clear about where Márk Helembai stands, which is more than many ever get.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match26 Dec 2026
It had gone 17 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Zalán Vancsa 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Csákvár
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dénes Szakály was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 150% of the Csákvár income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dénes Szakály, and the manager let it.
Match26 Dec 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Roland Baracskai’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Csákvár.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Marked 7.57. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Andras Dibusz on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Crisis
Match19 Dec 2026
17 matches without a win for Csákvár
The run now stands at 17, and the questions being asked around Csákvár are no longer polite ones.
Match21 Dec 2026
Csákvár sink to position 16
13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market21 Dec 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 ratings21 Dec 2026
Luka Kljajić beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Zalán Vancsa 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 Csákvár this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The decline has begun for András Simon
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 36 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Csákvár is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Csákvár training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dénes Szakály 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
BVSC-Zugló left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“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.
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Uneasy
Match12 Dec 2026
16 matches without a win for Csákvár
The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around Csákvár are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Csákvár
Zalán Vancsa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Nenad Kočović 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 ratings14 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match12 Dec 2026
Late, late show earns Csákvár a point
Minute 94, against Kecskeméti TE, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match12 Dec 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Kecskeméti TE leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Crisis
Match5 Dec 2026
15 matches without a win for Csákvár
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Csákvár are no longer polite ones.
Market7 Dec 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 ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Csákvár
Zalán Vancsa 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Csákvár training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dénes Szakály 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luka Lazin, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead7 Dec 2026
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 dugout7 Dec 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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Crisis
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Csákvár's wait for a win
14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Csákvár has to find a result from somewhere.
Match28 Nov 2026
Csákvár cannot find the net
14 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.
Market30 Nov 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 Csákvár, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Zalán Vancsa 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Dénes Szakály 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
153% of the income goes out in wages at Csákvár
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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match30 Nov 2026
Csákvár at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 15, 12 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
In brief
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Player ratings
Luka Kljajić runs at them all day
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Luka Lazin asks for a word with the manager
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Csákvár
13 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
The goals have deserted Csákvár
13 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Csákvár can tell you which week it ends in.
Match23 Nov 2026
Csákvár sink to position 14
12 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Zalán Vancsa 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 Csákvár this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Csákvár training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nenad Kočović 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 terraces23 Nov 2026
Csákvár supporters have found a favourite in Raúl Stefan
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Raúl Stefan 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Raúl Stefan
7.13, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Csákvár had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Csákvár
Zalán Vancsa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Csákvár training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dénes Szakály 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Ajka next, and one man in the Csákvár dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Barna Pál 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The penny has dropped for Luka Kljajić
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Csákvár the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
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Uneasy
Match7 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Csákvár's wait for a win
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Csákvár has to find a result from somewhere.
Match7 Nov 2026
Csákvár cannot find the net
12 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Csákvár
Zalán Vancsa 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Dénes Szakály 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 ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 7.03. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Andras Dibusz was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Csákvár dressing room was either.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Uneasy
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Csákvár's wait for a win
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Csákvár has to find a result from somewhere.
Match31 Oct 2026
Csákvár cannot find the net
11 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Zalán Vancsa 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Dénes Szakály 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
153% of the income goes out in wages at Csákvár
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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad2 Nov 2026
7 new faces, and Csákvár 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ádám Umathum makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 7.09 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Csákvár had the best player on the pitch.
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Csákvár
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Csákvár are no longer polite ones.
Match24 Oct 2026
10 matches without a goal for Csákvár
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 10 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Zalán Vancsa 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 Csákvár this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Csákvár
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dénes Szakály was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match24 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Szeged-Csanád GA, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Luka Lazin
“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 dugout26 Oct 2026
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 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Andras Dibusz to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Aurél Farkas
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
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Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Csákvár's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Csákvár has to find a result from somewhere.
Match17 Oct 2026
Csákvár cannot find the net
9 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Csákvár
Zalán Vancsa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 38 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Dénes Szakály 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
Luka Kljajić beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 7.16. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Csákvár
Zalán Vancsa 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aurél Farkas and Csákvár agree another 2 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Csákvár training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nenad Kočović 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Adam 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Market12 Oct 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Dávid Mészáros has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Csákvár.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Barna Pál 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Luka Lazin 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Csákvár
8 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Csákvár
8 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Csákvár can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Zalán Vancsa 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 36, 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Dénes Szakály 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 191% of everything Csákvár 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Bekescsaba left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Csákvár are still strangers to each other
8 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.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Player ratings
Luka Kljajić runs at them all day
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The dugout
The form table has caught Aurél Farkas
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Csákvár's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Csákvár has to find a result from somewhere.
Match26 Sep 2026
Csákvár 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.
The dugout28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Zalán Vancsa 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 Csákvár this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Luka Lazin 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Csákvár training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Márk Helembai is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Andras Dibusz after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for Csákvár
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Csákvár are no longer polite ones.
Match19 Sep 2026
6 matches without a goal for Csákvár
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 6 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Csákvár
Zalán Vancsa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Csákvár
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nenad Kočović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Luka Lazin 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 Csákvár will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 7.16 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Csákvár had the best player on the pitch.
Market21 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Csákvár, another week without a signature from Luka Kljajić.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Andras Dibusz was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Csákvár dressing room was either.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Csákvár's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Csákvár has to find a result from somewhere.
Match12 Sep 2026
Csákvár 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Csákvár
Zalán Vancsa 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Bence Szabó beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Csákvár
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dénes Szakály was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marton Fiola 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Péter Szalai
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Csákvár will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Csákvár can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Csákvár close the window on a squad of their own making
15 in and 2 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Zalán Vancsa 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 targets7 Sep 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Csákvár will try again when the window opens; Paksi may not be selling by then.
Squad7 Sep 2026
19 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Dénes Szakály 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 targets7 Sep 2026
Csákvár asked and BVSC-Zugló said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Csákvár are still strangers to each other
7 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Aug 2026
Csákvár bow out of the cup
Ujpest go through and Csákvár go home, 0‑0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad31 Aug 2026
András Perczel decides it from twelve yards
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Csákvár have done the hard part with Paksi, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market31 Aug 2026
Bence Ominger 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 Csákvár can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
Csákvár spend $760.0K to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $760.0K has been paid because Raúl Stefan is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Csákvár
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Csákvár are no longer polite ones.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a goal for Csákvár
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.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
$760.0K for Raúl Stefan, and Csákvár 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: Raúl Stefan from Kisvárda for $760.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
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Crisis
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Szentlőrinc wanted more than $47.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Nenad Kočović 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 targets24 Aug 2026
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Budafoki MTE, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market24 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Csákvár
Zalán Vancsa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Andras Dibusz after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
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.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $1.6M for Victor Gey
Csákvár 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.6M — a club that wants Victor Gey enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Csákvár have gone to Szentlőrinc 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Zalán Vancsa beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market17 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Csákvár
Zalán Vancsa 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 6.97. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Csákvár training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Márk Helembai 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Nenad Kočović would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Nenad Kočović is living that version at Csákvár, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Csákvár training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nenad Kočović 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dominik Szalai 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Roland 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Balazs Bese 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andras Lang 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: András Simon. 1‑0 against Kecskeméti TE, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Csákvár
Dénes Szakály 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Marked 7.68 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Csákvár had the best player on the pitch.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Squad
A season on the outside for Nenad Kočović
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Player ratings
Bence Szabó beats them one at a time
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
286 appearances across 9 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Csákvár know what they have.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Radnicki 1923 have kept their man, and Csákvár go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dénes Szakály commits to Csákvár for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Márton Lorentz 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 ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Rapid Bucharest: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Dinamo Bucharest 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 targets3 Aug 2026
Lommel 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Honved leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
In brief
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Squad
Dénes Szakály falls out with a teammate over standards
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Player ratings
Half an hour was enough for Áron Fejős