Bruno

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26 Aug 2026
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Process

Marked for Bruno

4 Edition

The Pafos Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Pafos turn down AEL for David Goldar

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

Market

Bruno hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pafos can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Anísio Cabral turns down Pafos

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Benfica keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

David Luiz 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Pafos

Ognjen Mimović 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Mateo Herrera

Pafos asked and Cortulua said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Pafos try to borrow Carlos Espí

Real Madrid 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.

Squad

The formation has left Felipe Ferreira behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Pafos will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Squad

Lelê still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Pafos would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Pafos Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A move Felipe Ferreira would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Felipe Ferreira is living that version at Pafos, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets

Mateo Herrera turns down Pafos

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Cortulua keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

A falling-out at Pafos

David Luiz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Pafos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dani Silva 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 targets

Door shut on Leonardo Valencia

Pafos asked and Cortulua said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Jay Gorter attracts admirers

The name of Jay Gorter has come up in conversations Pafos were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Felipe Ferreira stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Felipe Ferreira and Pafos agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

Pafos ask about Mateo Herrera

A loan enquiry to Cortulua: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market

Bruno told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Bruno has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Pafos.

In brief