Peter Simon

Left Midfielder - Auckland City
24 Oct 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Peter Simon

109 Edition

The Auckland City Post

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Michael Van Hattum asks to leave Auckland City

“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.

Market

Team Wellington come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Auckland City did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Peter Simon is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 16 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.

In brief

Back issues
97 Edition

The Auckland City Post

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dane Lewis

37 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Auckland City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Nassim Haddad asks to leave Auckland City

“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.

Squad

Nathan Lobo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nathan Lobo and Auckland City agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Nathan Garrow is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Auckland City

Panos Armenakas 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.

Market

Auckland City buy the years ahead of Peter Simon

He is 15, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief