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Steady
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Mezőkövesd's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mezőkövesd has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings2 Nov 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Mezőkövesd
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Mezőkövesd can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Mezőkövesd
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Miloje Jelenić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Miloje Jelenić, and the manager let it.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 126% of everything Mezőkövesd 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Péter Zachán slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Péter Zachán is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Mezőkövesd 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Half-satisfied: Tamas Gulacsi on the draw
“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.
Back issues
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Crisis
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mezőkövesd may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
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.
Match24 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Bekescsaba, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Sándor Vajda 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Tamas Gulacsi left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zoltán Varjas, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Mezőkövesd
Something was said to Zoltán Varjas and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Mezőkövesd will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Tiszakécske in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
Miljan Krpić 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 Mezőkövesd this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Sándor Vajda 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Mezőkövesd
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Miloje Jelenić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match17 Oct 2026
Fehervar left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Lajos Bertus is not the player he was
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 36 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad19 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and Mezőkövesd are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Attila Lőrinczy’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Mezőkövesd needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Miljan Krpić 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Sándor Vajda is not the player he was
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Mezőkövesd
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Stefan Golubović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Máté Deczki, and the manager let it.
Market12 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Miloje Jelenić signs something — a contract at Mezőkövesd or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A season on the outside for Kosta Janjić
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Mezőkövesd has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes Péter Zachán a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Mezőkövesd. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market12 Oct 2026
Mezőkövesd have made Dániel Winter available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Miljan Krpić 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 ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 156% of the Mezőkövesd 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Mezőkövesd
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sándor Vajda was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Péter Zachán 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 ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 7.90 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Mezőkövesd had the best player on the pitch.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Miloje Jelenić
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Miloje Jelenić has come out of that comparison in the side, and Mezőkövesd have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Match3 Oct 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Tamas Gulacsi was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Mezőkövesd dressing room was either.
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Steady
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mezőkövesd may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Miljan Krpić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Mezőkövesd
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Miloje Jelenić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match26 Sep 2026
Three points for Mezőkövesd, 1‑0 the final word against Karcag in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Mátyás Gresó
A mark of 7.90, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Tamas Gulacsi, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Attila Lőrinczy
“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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A brace, and Zsombor Gruber takes the afternoon — 9.02
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Zsombor Gruber provided it, and the 9.02 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match19 Sep 2026
The 89th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Zsombor Gruber decided nobody was going anywhere. BVSC-Zugló had no time left to answer.
Match19 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win, and then this, against BVSC-Zugló. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Miloje Jelenić 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 targets21 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. BVSC-Zugló have kept their man, and Mezőkövesd go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Zsombor Gruber. 2‑1 against BVSC-Zugló, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Viktor Csörgő 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 terraces21 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
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Squad
Mezőkövesd are still strangers to each other
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Squad
The first one for Zsombor Gruber
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Mezőkövesd
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Máté Deczki 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 Mezőkövesd can pretend not to have heard.
Market14 Sep 2026
The name of Mátyás Gresó has come up in conversations Mezőkövesd were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match12 Sep 2026
Budafoki MTE left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Honved have kept their man, and Mezőkövesd go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.50 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Mezőkövesd
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sándor Vajda was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout14 Sep 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 2‑3 defeat, delivered by Tamas Gulacsi to a room that had heard them before.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer from Honved for Mátyás Gresó was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
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 Mezőkövesd can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Mezőkövesd close the window on a squad of their own making
17 in and 0 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
Words at Mezőkövesd training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miloje Jelenić 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 targets7 Sep 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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Péter Zachán
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Lajos Bertus slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Lajos Bertus is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Market7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Dániel Winter decides it from twelve yards
4 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 14 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match26 Aug 2026
The small margins put Mezőkövesd out
Out, 0‑0 to Diosgyor, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer from Kryvbas for Sándor Vajda was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market31 Aug 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 Mezőkövesd can pretend not to have heard.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Mezőkövesd
5 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Guarani keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Miljan Krpić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Mezőkövesd training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miloje Jelenić 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.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 21 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Miljan Krpić 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 Mezőkövesd this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Mezőkövesd
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sándor Vajda was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Mezőkövesd asked and Nyíregyháza said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match22 Aug 2026
Late, late show earns Mezőkövesd a point
Minute 88, 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.
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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 7.95. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad24 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and Mezőkövesd 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.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Miljan Krpić 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: 21. 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Mezőkövesd training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miloje Jelenić 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 targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS Saint-Etienne have kept their man, and Mezőkövesd go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match15 Aug 2026
Honved left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Dávid Bobál
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Mezőkövesd will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Mezőkövesd, another week without a signature from Miljan Krpić.
The dugout17 Aug 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 Tamas Gulacsi to a room that had heard them before.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Miljan Krpić gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Miljan Krpić has just signed for Mezőkövesd, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Máté Deczki and Mezőkövesd agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Miljan Krpić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Mezőkövesd asked and Lommel said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gabor Szoboszlai 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Balazs Orban is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Akos Gazdag 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. Viktor Nikolic 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 dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Máté Deczki, and the manager let it.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sándor Vajda and Mezőkövesd agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slovan Bratislava have kept their man, and Mezőkövesd go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match1 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ádám Pintér. 2‑1 against Ajka, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Attila Lőrinczy 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 terraces3 Aug 2026
He is 23 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 ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Mezőkövesd, another week without a signature from Sándor Vajda.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Tamas Gulacsi could afford to be generous.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Máté Deczki 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.