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Player ratings7 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Joseph Mangondo at 21 — 8.00
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Joseph Mangondo did not need any: 8.00, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings7 Sep 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.
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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Vasas close the window on a squad of their own making
14 in and 4 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Vasas make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Vasas have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Vasas
Dominik Bese 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 terraces7 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Joseph Mangondo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match5 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Milán Tóth’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Vasas.
Match5 Sep 2026
Vasas keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
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Match26 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Csaba Molnár obliged against Paksi. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Vasas.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Csaba Molnár at 20 — 7.93
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Csaba Molnár did not need any: 7.93, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Bálint Faragó has gone, the accounts have $820.0K in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Sándor Hidi M. delivers — 7.88
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Sándor Hidi M. scored, was marked 7.88, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Vasas — 7.73
1 for Jozef Urblik, marked 7.73, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Market31 Aug 2026
Business is business: Bálint Faragó goes
Bekescsaba paid $820.0K and Vasas took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Vasas
András Radó was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Radnicki Nis have kept their man, and Vasas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Fehervar made Vasas work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Steady
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Victor Gey runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 59. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market24 Aug 2026
$2.0M — a new record at Vasas
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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Vasas had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at NK Domzale, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Vasas
András Radó 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The town asked, and Vasas paid $2.0M
Dominik Bese was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $2.0M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to FC Metz: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Tomas Bijol is in the works
Vasas have made the call to NK Domzale. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Vasas are still strangers to each other
5 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.
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Steady
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Sándor Hidi M. pops up at the right end — 7.88
7.88, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Bence Banó-Szabó for 16 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Vasas will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Vasas
András Radó and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. HNK Rijeka have kept their man, and Vasas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match15 Aug 2026
Three points for Vasas, 2‑0 the final word against Paksi in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Milán Tóth
7.93, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Vasas had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan move for Andraz Brekalo is in the works
Vasas have made the call to NK Domzale. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Vasas are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
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The dugout
Márk Engedi gets it from the manager
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Botond Baráth
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Market
Vasas bring in an old head
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Uneasy
Match8 Aug 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for Vasas
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Debrecen kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Vasas will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A brace, and Milán Tóth takes the afternoon — 8.38
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Milán Tóth provided it, and the 8.38 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$2.0M on the table at Haladas. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ujpest come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Vasas did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Bence Banó-Szabó and Vasas agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Vasas
András Radó was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dominik 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Istvan Gulacsi 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.
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Crisis
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
7 saves: János Uram was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” András Radó and Vasas agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
András Radó 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 Vasas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Napoli have kept their man, and Vasas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match1 Aug 2026
Haladas left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Vasas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kenneth Otigba 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Vasas and András Radó are talking past each other
“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.