The Petržalka Gazette
Market19 Apr 2027
Nicolas Sagan has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Petržalka they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Petržalka
André Hansen 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Papa Diouf falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
Wages swallow 89% of the Petržalka income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Samuel Alabi knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Samuel Alabi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market19 Apr 2027
The Samuel Gladiš question follows Petržalka around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Samuel Gladiš’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Squad Paul Owede Onowakpo finally belongs at Petržalka
- Squad Andrej Duris back in training
- Loan watch The clock runs down on Viktor Sliacky at Baník Lehota pod Vtáčnikom