The Paksi Gazette
Squad2 Aug 2027
József Windecker damages knee ligaments — 20 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 20 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 Aug 2027
A fracture rules János Hahn out for 87 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.
Match31 Jul 2027
The wait goes on for Paksi
10 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.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
Zoltán Pesti says Paksi went back on their word
“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.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
Matej Tadič due for a Paksi medical
Everything agreed with NK Maribor, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Paksi
Gábor Vas 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.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Paksi
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Dominik Kocsis 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.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
Door shut on Josué Kongolo
Paksi asked and Racing Genk said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
- Market Paksi promote Laszlo Lang from within
- Market Paksi promote Roland Szalai from within
- Market Paksi promote Norbert Dibusz from within