Thanos Prodromitis

Central Defender - Panetolikos
23 Sep 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Thanos Prodromitis

60 Edition

The Panetolikos Courier

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Panetolikos run riot against Kifisia

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad

Živko Živković keeps Panetolikos in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Real improvement from Thanos Prodromitis at Panetolikos

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Thanos Prodromitis is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Triantafyllos Tsapras has improved at 25, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad

Lenny Lobato 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.

Match

Alexandru Măţan at the heart of a fast Panetolikos start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Alexandru Măţan in the middle of it, and Kifisia unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

Player ratings

One of those days for Alexandru Măţan

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.18, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Giannis Satsias was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.16. 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 ratings

A defender's afternoon for Triantafyllos Tsapras

Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

In brief

Back issues
56 Edition

The Panetolikos Courier

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Diego Esteban

27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Panetolikos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Diego Esteban 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 Panetolikos, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Živko Živković 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 Panetolikos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

48 Edition

The Panetolikos Courier

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Diego Esteban damages knee ligaments — 92 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 92 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Elias Olsson 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 Panetolikos can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Jan Hurtado is a Panetolikos player

The fee is $1.4M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Volos NPS drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

Tempers go at Panetolikos

Youssouph Badji 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

Real improvement from Thanos Prodromitis at Panetolikos

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Thanos Prodromitis is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

A late step up for Alexandru Măţan

At 27 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

In brief