Hungarian players on the move with Euros in mind

According to the Hungarian Football Federation several members of Hungary’s national team have signed for new clubs this transfer window as they seek to cement places in head coach Bernd Storck’s final squad for this summer’s European Championships in France.

Mr Storck has already stated in several interviews that he would like members of the full national squad to receive suitable amounts of playing opportunities at club level during the spring. That means for some that moving to a new club in the January transfer window has to be a primary aim. Recently, several squad members have already used the open transfer window to move to new teams where they will certainly receive more opportunities to play in the coming months and develop their careers.

Among the first to move were two of Germany’s Hungarian contingent, Ádám Szalai and Zoltán Stieber, the former of whom remains in the top tier having now gone on-loan to relegation-threatened Hannover 96 and the latter of whom will temporarily ply his trade for promotion-chasing Nürnberg in the German second division, again as part of a loan deal.

The mlsz.hu said, Ákos Elek is another player upping sticks, this time from distant China to the relative familiarity of Diosgyőri VTK in the top division of his homeland. There is a slight delay in the completion of the paperwork for this deal but Elek has been training with Sándor Egervári’s team for some time now and it is effectively a done deal.