From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match24 Feb 2027
The cup run ends for Fehervar
0‑1 against Debrecen, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market1 Mar 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Mar 2027
Only the photograph left for Olivér Hesz
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Olivér Hesz will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fehervar the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Gergely Nagy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Fehervar know it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Jan Morávek gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jonathan Cerruti and Fehervar agree another 1 years.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market1 Mar 2027
The Donát Zsótér story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Donát Zsótér signs something — a contract at Fehervar or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Squad22 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fehervar may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market22 Feb 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fehervar is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Gergely Nagy in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Market15 Feb 2027
Dávid Zimonyi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Fehervar they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Gergely Nagy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Zsolt Magyar knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Fehervar, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
Zsolt Magyar: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Fehervar have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market8 Feb 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Fehervar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Csaba Spandler was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
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Uneasy
Market1 Feb 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Feb 2027
Haladas come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Fehervar did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fehervar may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market1 Feb 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fehervar is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad1 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Bence Bedi asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Market25 Jan 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Fehervar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fehervar may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market25 Jan 2027
Benedek Murka has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Fehervar they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Gergely Nagy in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Carlos Zambrano commits to Fehervar for another 4 years.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Csaba Spandler knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Fehervar, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Market18 Jan 2027
Only the photograph left for Dávid Zimonyi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Dávid Zimonyi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fehervar the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Botond Kemenes: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Fehervar have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Market11 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Gergely Nagy in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Diosgyor come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Fehervar did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Gergely Nagy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zsolt Kojnok, and the manager let it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Dávid Zimonyi 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The Donát Zsótér story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Donát Zsótér signs something — a contract at Fehervar or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Crisis
Market28 Dec 2026
Bence Bedi hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fehervar can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Gergely Nagy in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Dec 2026
Dávid Zimonyi scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑4 to Ujpest, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Zsolt Magyar commits to Fehervar for another 4 years.
Squad28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Jan Morávek
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Marked 8.46 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.21, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
109% of the income goes out in wages at Fehervar
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
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Crisis
Squad21 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dávid Zimonyi, and the manager let it.
Match19 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Uneasy
Market14 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 ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 9.25 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match12 Dec 2026
Puskas Akademia made Fehervar work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.48 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad14 Dec 2026
23 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad14 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 16 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Márk Dékei finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Fehervar have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Crisis
Match5 Dec 2026
9 matches without a win for Fehervar
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Fehervar are no longer polite ones.
Market7 Dec 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Fehervar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fehervar may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad7 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Dec 2026
0‑1 to Ferencvaros, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Csaba Spandler, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The armband comes off Bence Bedi
Fehervar will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Market7 Dec 2026
The Donát Zsótér story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Donát Zsótér signs something — a contract at Fehervar or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Gergely Nagy is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Gergely Nagy: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
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 Fehervar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Fehervar's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Fehervar has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Csaba Spandler was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Bence Bedi
“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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
137% of the income goes out in wages at Fehervar
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.37 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Uneasy
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Fehervar
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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Gergely Nagy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Marked 8.81 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Zsolt Haraszti will call it something else in private.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Márk Dékei, and the manager let it.
Match21 Nov 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Dávid Zimonyi 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
5.79 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
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Uneasy
Market16 Nov 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Fehervar's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Fehervar has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Gergely Nagy in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bálint Geiger, and the manager let it.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Market9 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 Fehervar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match7 Nov 2026
4 matches without a win for Fehervar
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Fehervar are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Gergely Nagy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.54 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 8.22 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match7 Nov 2026
It needed Dávid Zimonyi to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Paksi, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zsolt Kojnok, and the manager let it.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Crisis
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fehervar may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
137% of the income goes out in wages at Fehervar
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Match31 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad2 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Roland Varga asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Haladas, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market26 Oct 2026
Dávid Zimonyi hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fehervar can pretend not to have heard.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Gergely 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Shots: 10. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Squad26 Oct 2026
At 20 years old, Köndő Kelle became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Dániel Németh 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 Dániel Németh trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Market19 Oct 2026
Olivér Hesz hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fehervar can pretend not to have heard.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fehervar may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Csaba Spandler was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.33, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad19 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
It needed Dávid Zimonyi to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against MTK Budapest, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Fehervar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A defender's afternoon for Bence Bedi
Defensive actions: 23. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.93 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match10 Oct 2026
Three points for Fehervar, 1‑0 the final word against Ujpest in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gergő Kocsis in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Benedek Murka, and the manager let it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
The one thing Dávid Zimonyi could not do
Shots: 7, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Krisztián Kovács asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Fehervar
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A one-man rearguard from Gergely Nagy
There were 6 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Gergely Nagy in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
229% of the income goes out in wages at Fehervar
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.21 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Uneasy
Market28 Sep 2026
Dávid Zimonyi hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fehervar can pretend not to have heard.
Match26 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Fehervar
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Fehervar are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 27 days on the sidelines for Jan Morávek, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Gergely Nagy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Marcus Olsson
Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Fehervar
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Fehervar are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Gergely Nagy in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Ferencvaros, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bálint Geiger knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Fehervar, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market14 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Fehervar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market14 Sep 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Fehervar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match12 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Fehervar
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Marcus Olsson
Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Norbert Balogh asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Fehervar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match5 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Fehervar did not have in the autumn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Csaba Spandler was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
223% of the income goes out in wages at Fehervar
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Dávid Zimonyi
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.42 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Zsolt Magyar and Fehervar agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Bekescsaba leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
$1.0M — a new record at Fehervar
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Market31 Aug 2026
Dávid Zimonyi hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fehervar can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 60 days on the sidelines for Jan Morávek, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Márk Dékei
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Marcus Olsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gergely Nagy, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 8.22 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Fehervar needed to.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Csaba Spandler was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.54, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match22 Aug 2026
A 2‑0 win over Paksi, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.06 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad24 Aug 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 13. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jan Morávek finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Fehervar have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Uneasy
Market17 Aug 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Gergely Nagy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Donát Zsótér
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.10 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
Benedek Murka hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fehervar can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Márk Dékei runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gergely Nagy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Dávid Zimonyi
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market10 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Haladas leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market10 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Bence Kovács has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Fehervar.
Market10 Aug 2026
Fehervar bring in an old head
Jan Morávek is 37 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Shots: 8, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gergely Nagy and Fehervar agree another 2 years.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Márk Dékei runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Gergely Nagy in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fehervar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Krisztián Kovács’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Mario Simuţ
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dávid Zimonyi 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.