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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
Muller Fernandes damages knee ligaments — 56 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 56 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 ratings9 Nov 2026
Matvii Ponomarenko, 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.
Squad9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Vasas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bence Banó-Szabó 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 8.70 — 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of János Uram
“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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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Muller Fernandes damages knee ligaments — 63 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 63 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Vasas
Daniel Restrepo 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Vasas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matvii Ponomarenko 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sándor Hidi M.. 2‑1 against Paksi, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
209% of the income goes out in wages at Vasas
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 ratings2 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.86 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match31 Oct 2026
Nobody wins at Vasas
8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I watch every Vasas game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Puskas Akademia runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Muller Fernandes damages knee ligaments — 70 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 70 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A brace, and Patrick Iyinbor takes the afternoon — 9.40
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Patrick Iyinbor provided it, and the 9.40 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Dominik Sztojka out for 20 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vasas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Age has not caught András Radó yet — 8.50
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.50 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
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 Vasas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Milán Tóth
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match24 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Patrick Iyinbor’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Vasas.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
9 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Muller Fernandes damages knee ligaments — 77 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 77 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Vasas's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Vasas has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Dominik Sztojka out for 27 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vasas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Bálint Faragó: 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.” Vasas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Vasas
Daniel Restrepo 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Honours even between Vasas and Haladas
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Muller Fernandes
85 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Vasas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match10 Oct 2026
Vasas throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with MTK Budapest the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Vasas will enjoy reviewing.
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Vasas
8 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Dominik Sztojka out for 34 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vasas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Age has not caught Damián Bogado yet — 8.18
At 39 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.18 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
MTK Budapest left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Muller Fernandes
92 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Vasas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Vasas
7 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A brace, and Matvii Ponomarenko takes the afternoon — 7.99
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Matvii Ponomarenko provided it, and the 7.99 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Dominik Kúdelčík is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Vasas and Ujpest in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Match3 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Vasas do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Vasas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matvii Ponomarenko 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 349% of everything Vasas 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.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Muller Fernandes
99 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Vasas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Vasas
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.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jozef Urblik, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Vasas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bence Banó-Szabó 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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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Muller Fernandes damages knee ligaments — 109 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 109 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Vasas
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Vasas are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Milán Tóth
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Vasas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matvii Ponomarenko 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.
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.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
Muller Fernandes damages knee ligaments — 116 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 116 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from János Uram
There were 9 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Vasas
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Vasas are no longer polite ones.
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 Vasas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Matvii Ponomarenko 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Milán Tóth runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.74, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
14 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Muller Fernandes
126 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Vasas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 Sep 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
25 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Vasas
Daniel Restrepo 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Milán Tóth runs at them all day
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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
298% of the income goes out in wages at Vasas
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
Bence Banó-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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
42 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Muller Fernandes
135 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Vasas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match26 Aug 2026
Vasas bow out of the cup
Paksi go through and Vasas go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market31 Aug 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 Vasas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Milán Tóth
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
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Vasas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bence Banó-Szabó 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Bence Banó-Szabó was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.92. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Match29 Aug 2026
It needed Bence Banó-Szabó to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Fehervar, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Upbeat
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Muller Fernandes
142 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Vasas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.23 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market24 Aug 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 Vasas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Milán Tóth
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Bence Banó-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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Vilmos Jován has come up in conversations Vasas were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match22 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Bekescsaba, 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
Bence Banó-Szabó was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.85. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Muller Fernandes
149 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Vasas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Milán Tóth runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 30. 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
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Vasas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bence Banó-Szabó 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Vasas against Paksi
0‑1 to Paksi, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from János Uram
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.
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Victor Gey, and the manager let it.
Match8 Aug 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Debrecen leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Milán Tóth runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from János Uram
There were 8 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.
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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Sándor Hidi M. at his very best
Marked 8.74. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Vasas.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Barnabás Németh
“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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Haladas made Vasas work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.37, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.