Marked for Leandro Basán
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market28 Dec 2026
“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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Up for the corner, and Roan Wilson delivers — 7.78
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Roan Wilson scored, was marked 7.78, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Market28 Dec 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around PAS Giannina they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Dec 2026
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and PAS Giannina know it.
Match26 Dec 2026
Roan Wilson scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Iraklis, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Pablo Santana
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 127% of everything PAS Giannina earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at PAS Giannina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nemanja Milojević was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match19 Dec 2026
5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Makedonikos were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad21 Dec 2026
50 goals for the club, every one of them filed away in the memory of a supporter somewhere.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
No place for Rômulo on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at PAS Giannina pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.78 on the card, and the PAS Giannina support went home talking about one name.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Rômulo dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Uneasy
Match12 Dec 2026
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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Kostas Thymianis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Nemanja Milojević 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Leandro Basán dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Javi Zarzo asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad14 Dec 2026
One booking too many, and Rafa Páez sits out. PAS Giannina lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason PAS Giannina will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at PAS Giannina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Markos Nino 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Dylan Tutonda 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Markos Nino
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Rômulo 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 Rômulo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad16 Nov 2026
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Leandro Basán has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Niki Volos next, and one man in the PAS Giannina dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Themis Patrinos is on it.
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Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. PAS Giannina will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Leandro Basán, 36, rolls back the years — 8.09
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.09 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at PAS Giannina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nemanja Milojević 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pablo Santana, and the manager let it.
Match7 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Leandro Basán. 1‑0 against Nestos Chrysoupoli, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Giorgos Tourkochoritis and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match9 Nov 2026
Position 8, 9 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gaël Nlundulu and PAS Giannina agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Steady
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Pablo Santana: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” PAS Giannina have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. PAS Giannina will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market2 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Themis Patrinos will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around PAS Giannina the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Kostas Thymianis 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nemanja Milojević was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match31 Oct 2026
1‑2 to Asteras Tripolis B, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Leandro Basán did the work nobody counts — 7.64
10 combined actions and 7.64. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
112% of the income goes out in wages at PAS Giannina
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
In brief
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Boardroom
Nobody left the PAS Giannina dressing room in a hurry
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Squad
Gaël Nlundulu stays put
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
Roan Wilson 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for PAS Giannina
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Santana was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match19 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Kavala, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Konstantinos Stafylidis to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Leandro Basán dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Lazar Kojić has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and PAS Giannina will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Ermis Selimaj is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.