Bruno Silva

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26 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Bruno Silva

7 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Pedro Ataíde turns down Agia Napa

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

Squad

A row about effort at Agia Napa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mayron de Almeida was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Lefteris Alabritis

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Agia Napa promote Nektarios Antoniou from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nektarios Antoniou has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

The dugout

Bruno Silva gets it from the manager

“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.

Match

Agia Napa come up short against Doxa

Doxa left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Agia Napa and Omar Bugiel are talking past each other

“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.

Squad

Agia Napa are still strangers to each other

10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

Panagiotis Pittas answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief

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6 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Yelco keeps Agia Napa in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 19 in, 0 out at Agia Napa

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 19 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets

Pedro Ataíde due for a Agia Napa medical

Everything agreed with APOEL, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

Arthur Nascimento turns down Agia Napa

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

Squad

Tempers go at Agia Napa

Omar Bugiel 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.

Squad

Mayron de Almeida 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.

Transfer targets

Agia Napa rebuffed over Amir Ismaïl

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Heerenveen have kept their man, and Agia Napa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Omar Bugiel’s goal not enough for Agia Napa

Omar Bugiel scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to AE Kition, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout

Mayron de Almeida gets it from the manager

“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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

15 saves: Yelco was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 15 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

Agia Napa taken apart

1‑8 to AEL, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad

Omar Bugiel 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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

9 goals as Agia Napa and AEL go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 9 goals between Agia Napa and AEL, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Axel Guessand

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

Squad

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yelco 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 dugout

No hiding place for Marios Peratikos

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marios Peratikos, and the manager let it.

Market

The ambition of Bruno Silva outgrows Agia Napa early

Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings

Didier Amou-Djaba ran the middle of the pitch — 6.81

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 10 combined actions and a mark of 6.81, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

In brief

4 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Vlad Dragomir turns down Agia Napa

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

Squad

A falling-out at Agia Napa

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

Transfer targets

No deal for Christodoulos Thoma at that price

Agia Napa offered $16.0K; AE Kition said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mayron de Almeida 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

Agia Napa rebuffed over Tanguy Zoukrou

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Young Boys have kept their man, and Agia Napa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

A stepping stone, not a home, for Mayron de Almeida

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Agia Napa were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

Squad

Mayron de Almeida is a square peg at Agia Napa

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Transfer targets

Agia Napa try to borrow Amir Ismaïl

Heerenveen 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.

The dugout

Modestos Sotiriou gets it from the manager

“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.

In brief