Marked for Luca Andrada
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Uneasy
Match25 Nov 2026
Egaleo bow out of the cup
Aris Thessaloniki go through and Egaleo go home, 0‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match28 Nov 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Panargiakos, and it could have been more.
The terraces30 Nov 2026
0-3, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Egaleo can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Egaleo
Mouhamed Mbaye and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match28 Nov 2026
It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Egaleo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giannis Christopoulos 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
156% of the income goes out in wages at Egaleo
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.
The terraces30 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Giannis Satsias has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Egaleo
Luca Andrada 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Egaleo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giannis Satsias 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Egaleo come up short against Marko
Marko left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout26 Oct 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.
The dugout26 Oct 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 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Spyridon Torosidis to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Egaleo told Pierre Mounguengue something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Egaleo, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Olympiacos B in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Egaleo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Oct 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Egaleo
Mouhamed Mbaye 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 Oct 2026
Words at Egaleo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giannis Christopoulos 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Egaleo against Kalamata
0‑2 to Kalamata, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nick Perc runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Egaleo
Something was said to Matthaios Mountes and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Luca Andrada 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.
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Upbeat
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Egaleo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 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 Egaleo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Egaleo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luca Andrada was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Egaleo
18 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
Egaleo counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Egaleo now.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Egaleo take on the side everybody is chasing
Kalamata arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Kalamata in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Nick Perc talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Egaleo know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Giorgos Xenitidis has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Egaleo will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Upbeat
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nick Perc runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Pierre Mounguengue is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 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 Egaleo know it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Egaleo
Mouhamed Mbaye and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Egaleo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luca Andrada was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 200% of everything Egaleo 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.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I watch every Egaleo game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at PAS Giannina runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Pierre Mounguengue has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match3 Oct 2026
Egaleo keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Egaleo
Mouhamed Mbaye 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Egaleo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giannis Christopoulos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Zean Dalügge
“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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Tilemachos Karabas was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.14. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.30, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Egaleo
Zean Dalügge 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Luca Andrada 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Athens Kallithea left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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 Egaleo will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
No place in the plan for Rida Zouhir
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Triumph
Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Egaleo people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market14 Sep 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Giorgos Ntaviotis to Niki Volos has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Egaleo with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Egaleo
Pierre Mounguengue 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Egaleo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luca Andrada 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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AEK have kept their man, and Egaleo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout14 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.
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Egaleo have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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 Egaleo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
At 18 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 21 in, 4 out at Egaleo
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 21 arrived, 4 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
An order from above at Egaleo: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Luca Andrada in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Egaleo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Egaleo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giannis Christopoulos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Napredak have kept their man, and Egaleo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Egaleo are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Egaleo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 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 Egaleo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Egaleo asked and Dinamo Minsk said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Egaleo, another week without a signature from Mouhamed Mbaye.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Egaleo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Odysseas Spyridis 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Egaleo have made the call to Dynamo Kyiv. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Egaleo has been clear about where Dimitris Oungialidis stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Luca Andrada has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Egaleo know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nick Perc remains an outsider
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Egaleo would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andreas Makris and AEL Larisa agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Yvann Maçon 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Universidad Catolica have kept their man, and AEL Larisa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Luca Andrada again, and this time the name on the line is Egaleo. AEL Larisa are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at AEL Larisa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andreas Makris was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
Gustavo Barros arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Gustavo Barros has, at Egaleo, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nick Perc and Egaleo agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Egaleo
Zean Dalügge and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Egaleo will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Nick Perc
Still no offer on the table, and Nick Perc’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
AEL Larisa have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Giannis Satsias is in the works
Egaleo have made the call to Panetolikos. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.