Anthony Smits

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Panathinaikos
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144 Edition

The Panathinaikos Post

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market30 Apr 2029

Jota Silva has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Panathinaikos can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad30 Apr 2029

Words exchanged at Panathinaikos

Karol Świderski 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.

Squad30 Apr 2029

Kings Kangwa 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.

The dugout30 Apr 2029

When it matters, Karol Świderski plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout30 Apr 2029

Jonjoe Kenny has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Jonjoe Kenny has written the date down.

The dugout30 Apr 2029

Loren Morón 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.

Market30 Apr 2029

The Vicente Taborda story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Vicente Taborda signs something — a contract at Panathinaikos or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Squad30 Apr 2029

Anthony Smits has seen what the next man earns

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Panathinaikos that is a harder question to answer.

Market30 Apr 2029

The clock does Elseid Hysaj’s negotiating for him

5 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Panathinaikos could ask drops and the wages Elseid Hysaj can ask rise.

In brief

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133 Edition

The Panathinaikos Post

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market12 Feb 2029

Only the photograph left for Panagiotis Tsintotas

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Panagiotis Tsintotas will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Panathinaikos the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market12 Feb 2029

ND Gorica come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Panathinaikos did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad12 Feb 2029

Tempers go at Panathinaikos

Karol Świderski 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.

Market12 Feb 2029

Anass Zaroury raises the bar for Panathinaikos

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Panathinaikos heard it as anything else.

Squad12 Feb 2029

Jota Silva 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.

Match10 Feb 2029

Anass Zaroury sends Panathinaikos past Atromitos

It finished 1‑0, and it was Anass Zaroury’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Panathinaikos.

Player ratings12 Feb 2029

One of those days for Anass Zaroury

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.06, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout12 Feb 2029

No hiding place for Kostas Kotsaris

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

Squad12 Feb 2029

A smaller club would suit Jay Gorter now

He has had enough of the noise. Whether Panathinaikos can be a quieter place for him, or whether the only cure is a move somewhere the phone-ins are gentler, is a question for the next few months.

In brief

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  • The dugout Davide Calabria has become a man the manager trusts
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
91 Edition

The Ipswich Town Herald

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match22 Apr 2028

The wait goes on for Ipswich Town

27 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.

Match24 Apr 2028

Ipswich Town sink to position 20

10 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market24 Apr 2028

Issa Diop 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 Ipswich Town, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market24 Apr 2028

Only the photograph left for Kasey McAteer

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kasey McAteer will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ipswich Town the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad24 Apr 2028

Andrea Astrologo 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. Andrea Astrologo has, at Ipswich Town, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad24 Apr 2028

Saša Lukić 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 Ipswich Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad24 Apr 2028

Words at Ipswich Town training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sam Szmodics 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.

Match22 Apr 2028

Ipswich Town come up short against Newcastle United

Newcastle United left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market24 Apr 2028

Jack Taylor wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

In brief

78 Edition

The Ipswich Town Herald

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match22 Jan 2028

14 matches without a win for Ipswich Town

The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around Ipswich Town are no longer polite ones.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Christian Walton stands alone

9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Charles Young breaks a bone — 88 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market24 Jan 2028

Emersonn moves on

Wolverhampton pay $10.5M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market24 Jan 2028

Only the photograph left for Abdoul Ouattara

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Abdoul Ouattara will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ipswich Town the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market24 Jan 2028

Anthony Smits 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 Ipswich Town, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market24 Jan 2028

Ipswich Town sign Liam Mandeville for $1.1M

The paperwork is done: Liam Mandeville joins from Coventry City in a deal worth $1.1M. Now comes the harder part.

Squad24 Jan 2028

A falling-out at Ipswich Town

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

Squad24 Jan 2028

A row about effort at Ipswich Town

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

In brief