Simone Negri

Right Midfielder - Paksi
24 Mar 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Simone Negri

110 Edition

The Paksi Gazette

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

61 days out for Mateja Zuvić after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Paksi will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Cup progress for Paksi

A 2‑0 win over Diosgyor, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Market

Kevin Kántor agrees terms with Bekescsaba

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Paksi people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Simone Negri at 20 — 8.19

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Simone Negri did not need any: 8.19, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Ujpest watching Gergő Gyurkits

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Paksi have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

The dugout

Zsombor Menyhárt: 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.” Paksi have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Boardroom

Paksi close the window on a squad of their own making

26 in and 15 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.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Arjan Malić

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Paksi have done the hard part with Red Bull Salzburg, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Match

After 8 games, Paksi finally taste it again

The first defeat in 8 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Ferencvaros; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.

In brief

Back issues
99 Edition

The Paksi Gazette

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Laszlo Szoboszlai out for 32 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Paksi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Mario Simuţ has said yes to Bekescsaba

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Paksi have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Boardroom

Paksi go back to the board over Zsombor Molnár

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $40.0K — a club that wants Zsombor Molnár enough to be asked twice.

Squad

A falling-out at Paksi

Florent Hadergjonaj and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Paksi training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gábor Vas 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 targets

Door shut on Zalán Kerezsi

Paksi asked and MTK Budapest 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of János Hahn

“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.

Market

Paksi and Gábor Vas 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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Gergő Holdampf is in the works

Paksi have made the call to Diosgyor. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

98 Edition

The Paksi Gazette

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Terms done: József Windecker is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Honved waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Paksi is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad

Laszlo Szoboszlai breaks a bone — 39 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Mario Simuţ 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 Paksi can pretend not to have heard.

The terraces

Paksi sell a favourite for $1.1M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Kévin Sitou was one of the reasons people came, and $1.1M does not replace that by itself.

Market

Paksi sell Kévin Sitou for $1.1M

Kévin Sitou has left for Ujpest in a $1.1M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Transfer targets

An offer of $31.0K for Zsombor Molnár

Paksi 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.

Transfer targets

No deal for Zsombor Molnár at that price

Paksi offered $84.0K; Vasas said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

Words at Paksi training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gábor Vas 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 targets

Paksi rebuffed over Lamin Colley

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Puskas Akademia have kept their man, and Paksi go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief