There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.20 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maksym Zaderaka was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Marko Matanović has come out of that comparison in the side, and Kisvárda have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Bence Lisztes could afford to be generous.
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Kisvárda are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Up for the corner, and Andrija Milić delivers — 7.71
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Andrija Milić scored, was marked 7.71, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Joel Fameyeh and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
A goal on 88 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Squad26 Oct 2026
7 new faces, and Kisvárda 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.
Joel Fameyeh 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.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Kisvárda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vladimir Ilić 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.
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. ZTE defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Kisvárda have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Kisvárda can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kisvárda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Illia Popovych is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
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.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Bogdan Melnyk is on it.
ZTE next, and one man in the Kisvárda dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Soma Novothny trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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.
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.
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Joel Fameyeh is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Bence Lisztes chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.26 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Joel Fameyeh 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.
200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Vladimir Ilić 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.
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Bence Lisztes on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Nyíregyháza next, and one man in the Kisvárda dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Maksym Zaderaka signs something — a contract at Kisvárda or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maksym Zaderaka was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Bence Tóth 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.
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.91 on the card, and the Kisvárda support went home talking about one name.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Bence Lisztes kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Paksi next, and one man in the Kisvárda dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
In brief
The dugoutIstván Soltész has become a man the manager trusts
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Máté Gyurkó reports back to Kisvárda with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Kisvárda will try again when the window opens; Ferencvaros may not be selling by then.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Kisvárda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maksym Zaderaka 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.
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.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Bence Lisztes after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
“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 Kisvárda, and it is not being withdrawn.
The offer went to Ferencvaros this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 19 signed and 16 gone
That is the business done at Kisvárda until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Austria Wien have kept their man, and Kisvárda go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vladimir Ilić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Raúl Stefan was one of the reasons people came, and $760.0K does not replace that by itself.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sporting Cristal have kept their man, and Kisvárda go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Successful dribbles: 25. 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.
Szeged-Csanád GA did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $610.0K for Bence Tóth, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Kisvárda have done the hard part with BVSC-Zugló, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Raúl Stefan has left for Csákvár in a $760.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Kisvárda spend $610.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $610.0K for Bence Tóth, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Kisvárda and Szeged-Csanád GA have settled on $610.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Vladimir Ilić is living that version at Kisvárda, and it tends to show in the first month.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kisvárda can pretend not to have heard.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $200.0K — a club that wants Bence Komlósi enough to be asked twice.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Cremonese keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Karcag paid $99.0K and Kisvárda took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
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.
Kisvárda asked and ETO Győr said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Joel Fameyeh 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 offer went to Diosgyor this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Kisvárda asked and Fehervar said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Ilarion Tuhai has, at Kisvárda, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kisvárda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Kisvárda are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Maksym Zaderaka has, at Kisvárda, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Puskas Akademia did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $620.0K for Joel Fameyeh, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $180.0K — a club that wants Márk Gyetván enough to be asked twice.
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Kisvárda have gone to Paksi with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Joel Fameyeh was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $620.0K. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Kisvárda asked and Diosgyor said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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.
Kisvárda asked and Universitatea Craiova said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The phone has started ringing about Kevin Körmendi again, and this time the name on the line is Kozármisleny. Kisvárda are listening politely and promising nothing.
Soma Novothny 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Szilárd Szabó 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.
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Debrecen.