Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Szentlőrinc will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Szentlőrinc will quote 17 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Emin Sarıgül is living that version at Szentlőrinc, and it tends to show in the first month.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Szentlőrinc will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Marino Žeravica, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.71
A mark of 7.71 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Szentlőrinc have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Szentlőrinc this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Szentlőrinc asked and Voždovac said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Szentlőrinc will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Szentlőrinc close the window on a squad of their own making
2 in and 1 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.
Everything agreed with Kazincbarcika, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Jean-Pascal Fontaine 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 now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ujpest have kept their man, and Szentlőrinc go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Szentlőrinc will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Szentlőrinc can pretend not to have heard.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Szentlőrinc this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
BVSC-Zugló left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Balázs Kiss 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 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.
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Szentlőrinc and Kozármisleny in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Máté Adamcsek scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑4 to Kozármisleny, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Szentlőrinc training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Balázs Kiss 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 supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 2‑4, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
4 saves does not settle the argument about whose fault it was, and the argument will run all week. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines whoever caused them.
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Szentlőrinc know which stage they are at.
In brief
The dugoutErik Czérna has become a man the manager trusts
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Szentlőrinc can pretend not to have heard.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Szentlőrinc this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Szentlőrinc asked and Rodina said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
“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 dugout11 Jan 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Szabolcs Gulacsi was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Szentlőrinc dressing room was either.
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Marino Žeravica did not need any: 7.62, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Szentlőrinc can pretend not to have heard.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Szentlőrinc have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
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.
4 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.
Željko Arsić 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.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Kenzo Kies has, at Szentlőrinc, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Szentlőrinc will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Marino Žeravica, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.77
A mark of 7.77 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Márton Gyurján 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.
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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Balázs Kiss falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Szentlőrinc, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Szentlőrinc will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
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.
Minute 85, against Fehervar, 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.
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 dugout21 Dec 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.” Szabolcs Gulacsi chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
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.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Szentlőrinc will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Marino Žeravica did not need any: 7.65, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Balázs Kiss 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.
Level with 95 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Szentlőrinc had all but put away. Soroksár will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Szabolcs Gulacsi was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Szentlőrinc dressing room was either.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Barnabás Kovács provided it, and the 8.17 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Barnabás Kovács. 3‑2 against Karcag, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
At 20 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.
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Karcag spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Balázs Kiss 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.
In brief
Player ratingsNinety minutes of Máté Adamcsek at his very best
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Szentlőrinc will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Jean-Pascal Fontaine 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
177% of the income goes out in wages at Szentlőrinc
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.
100 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.
17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Szentlőrinc lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Szentlőrinc will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Željko Arsić. 1‑0 against Budafoki MTE, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
In brief
SquadBalázs Kiss falls out with a teammate over standards
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Szentlőrinc lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Szentlőrinc will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Željko Arsić 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
Balázs Kiss 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.
Nobody at Szentlőrinc will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Budafoki MTE next, and one man in the Szentlőrinc dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
In brief
The dugoutMáté Adamcsek asks for a word with the manager
33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Szentlőrinc lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Szentlőrinc will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Fehervar go through and Szentlőrinc go home, 0‑4 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 7 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Márton Gyurján 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.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 83 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
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.
Jean-Pascal Fontaine 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.
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Balázs Kiss was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. István Harsányi is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Szentlőrinc will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Szentlőrinc can tell you which week it ends in.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Balázs Kiss was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“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 dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Bence Kocsis's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Szentlőrinc will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Szentlőrinc can tell you which week it ends in.
Róbert Csáki 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.
0‑1 to Vasas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout19 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 Szabolcs Gulacsi left the room before anybody could ask which.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Péter Kiss-Szemán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Szentlőrinc will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Jean-Pascal Fontaine 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
Words at Szentlőrinc training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Balázs Kiss 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.
12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Szentlőrinc told Alex Lacza something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Nobody at Szentlőrinc will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Vasas next, and one man in the Szentlőrinc dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Szentlőrinc, and both men came out saying it was fine.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Szentlőrinc will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Jean-Pascal Fontaine 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
222% of the income goes out in wages at Szentlőrinc
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Szentlőrinc training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Balázs Kiss 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.
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. Szentlőrinc will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Szentlőrinc, another week without a signature from Jean-Pascal Fontaine.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 121 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
István Harsányi 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.
Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Péter Kiss-Szemán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 129 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Balázs Kiss falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Szentlőrinc this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Szabolcs Gulacsi after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Szentlőrinc, and both men came out saying it was fine.
1‑2 to Szeged-Csanád GA, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Balázs Kiss 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.
Successful dribbles: 16. 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 dugout14 Sep 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 1‑2 Szabolcs Gulacsi left the room before anybody could ask which.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Szentlőrinc, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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 Erik Czérna is on it.
Kozármisleny next, and one man in the Szentlőrinc dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Szentlőrinc lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
“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 Szentlőrinc, and it is not being withdrawn.
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 20 arrived, 4 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Szeged-Csanád GA have kept their man, and Szentlőrinc go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Szentlőrinc will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad7 Sep 2026
10 new faces, and Szentlőrinc 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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Szentlőrinc, and both men came out saying it was fine.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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.
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Marino Žeravica did not need any: 7.86, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.87 for the rest of it.
Szentlőrinc 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.
The fee is $180.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Kazincbarcika drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Barnabás Kovács was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $690.0K. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
The words a physio says slowly. 28 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.
The clubs have shaken hands with Kazincbarcika; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
The offer from Csákvár for Lazar Milovanović 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.
The offer went to Kecskeméti TE 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.
István Harsányi 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.
Szentlőrinc asked and Vasas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Bence Komlósi was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $180.0K. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
36 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Szentlőrinc lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Szentlőrinc have gone to Vasas with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.1M — a club that wants Victor Gey enough to be asked twice.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Diosgyor have kept their man, and Szentlőrinc go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The name of Lazar Milovanović has come up in conversations Szentlőrinc were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Željko Arsić has just signed for Szentlőrinc, and for once the answer mattered.
Szentlőrinc asked and Spartak Trnava said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
István Harsányi 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.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. David Lang 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.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. David Botka 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.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gabor Sallai has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Janos Nikolic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Marino Žeravica provided it, and the 8.82 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
“The easiest signature of my career.” István Harsányi and Szentlőrinc agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Szentlőrinc this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Vojvodina have kept their man, and Szentlőrinc go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
At 20 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.