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The First Division Chronicle

1 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Florin Tănase

The month closes with Florin Tănase out in front — 4 goals in 3 games, and Omonoia have the division's most feared finisher.

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Florin Tănase is the division's player of the month — 8.37

A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Omonoia man on 8.37 with 5 goal contributions.

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Axel Guessand is the month's best young player — 7.21

The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.21 over the month and 0 goal contributions, from a Anorthosis player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.

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Mateusz Musiałowski has said yes to Agia Napa

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

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Jordan Robinand puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Doxa, and it is not being withdrawn.

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Aris turn down AEL for Andronikos Kakoullis

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

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Nobody made more than Rody Junior Effaghe this month

3 assists, 7.84, and a Aris player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.

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Gabriel Maioli’s move to Aris falls through

The deal that would have taken Gabriel Maioli to Aris has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to APOEL with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

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Highest marks in the league belong to a Omonoia man

Florin Tănase averaged 8.37 over 3 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.

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Michalis Ioannou is right behind him

2 goals in 3 appearances for Anorthosis, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

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Andronikos Kakoullis makes the list

2 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Lelê makes the list

3 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Stevan Jovetić is the division’s leading scorer

3 goals in 1 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. AEL have the man every defence in the division is planning around.

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Apollon come back empty-handed

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

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Kypros Neofytou agrees terms with Nea Salamis

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

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Not going: Panagiotis Kattirtzis stays at APOEL

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Ethnikos Achnas had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

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Stevan Jovetić leads the division for assists — 9.70

The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 1 of them made by a AEL player marked 9.70, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.

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Stefan Simić puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Omonoia, and it is not being withdrawn.

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Still scoring: Fernando Forestieri

1 in 1 for AEL. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Rafael Lopes keeps the pressure on

1 goals in 1 appearances for Anorthosis leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

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Still scoring: Florin Tănase

2 in 1 for Omonoia. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Lelê makes the list

1 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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1 made by Fernando Forestieri — 8.22

Further down the providers' column, where the AEL man sits on 8.22 and a month of passes that were harder than the finishes they became.

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Rafael Lopes: 1 assists this month — 8.15

Next on a chart nobody frames. 8.15 for a Anorthosis player whose month is measured in other people's goals.

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Nicolás Andereggen has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Ethnikos Achnas can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

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The clock runs on Luther Singh's contract

10 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

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Giorgos Naoum is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at AE Kition has been clear about where Giorgos Naoum stands, which is more than many ever get.