Charles Grimaud

Goalkeeper - Petržalka
19 May 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Charles Grimaud

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The Petržalka Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Petržalka turn down Mladost Zdralovi for Damián Kotrba

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Match

The wait goes on for Petržalka

5 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.

Squad

Lukáš Penxa 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 Petržalka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Petržalka cannot find the net

3 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.

Squad

Words at Petržalka training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dominik Špiriak 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

MFK Michalovce tell Petržalka: Kido Taylor-Hart is not for sale

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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Lukáš Penxa

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Landing Sagna is in the works

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

Squad

Petržalka are still strangers to each other

6 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.

In brief

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25 Edition

The Petržalka Gazette

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Matúš Sláviček is a medical away from Petržalka

The deal with AS Trencin is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Match

The wait goes on for Petržalka

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.

Squad

Tempers go at Petržalka

Lukáš Penxa 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.

Squad

Charles Grimaud gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Charles Grimaud has just signed for Petržalka, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

Petržalka baulk at the price for Maksym Kuchynskyi

Tatran Prešov wanted more than $7.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets

Petržalka rebuffed over Matúš Begala

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

Match

MFK Zvolen take the points off Petržalka

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

Lukáš Penxa was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Petržalka

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pavel Halouska was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief