Lluc Carrera

Left Midfielder - Free Agent
21 Jan 2030
Monday
Process

Marked for Lluc Carrera

161 Edition

The Omonoia Aradippou Sentinel

27 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Thanasis Papadoudis

There were 8 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.

Player ratings

Both of them Anderson's — 8.67

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.67, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Ilyas Baig agrees terms with Olympiakos Nicosia

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Omonoia Aradippou people have started saying his name in the past tense.

The dugout

Arthur Barbosa: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Omonoia Aradippou have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Lluc Carrera asks to leave Omonoia Aradippou

“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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Omonoia Aradippou

Anderson 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.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Omonoia Aradippou

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Match

Omonoia Aradippou end the wait against Omonoia

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.

Squad

Federico Ibáñez wants to go home

“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 Omonoia Aradippou know it.

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131 Edition

The Omonoia Aradippou Sentinel

29 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

İbrahim Yılmaz damages knee ligaments — 136 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 136 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Konstantinos Laifis out for 108 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Omonoia Aradippou will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

A brace, and Anderson takes the afternoon — 9.50

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Anderson provided it, and the 9.50 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

Omonoia Aradippou up to position 3

32 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market

Lluc Carrera asks to leave Omonoia Aradippou

“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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Marios Praxitelous Al-Herek

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marios Praxitelous Al-Herek will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Omonoia Aradippou the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Omonoia Aradippou count the cost of losing Anel Zulić

42 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Anderson is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.30 with 16 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Marco Camus

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

114 Edition

The Omonoia Aradippou Sentinel

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cup progress for Omonoia Aradippou

A 3‑1 win over Ethnikos Latsion, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Lluc Carrera runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Adrián Mosquera at 19 — 7.97

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Adrián Mosquera did not need any: 7.97, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Marios Praxitelous Al-Herek has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Omonoia Aradippou they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Sebastian Ring signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sebastian Ring commits to Omonoia Aradippou for another 2 years.

Boardroom

Omonoia Aradippou agree a free transfer for Efe Ali

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Squad

Tempers go at Omonoia Aradippou

Sebastian Ring 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Adrián Vega

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Doxa take the points off Omonoia Aradippou

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

105 Edition

The Omonoia Aradippou Sentinel

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Marios Praxitelous Al-Herek has said yes to Agia Napa

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Omonoia Aradippou have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Only the photograph left for Maxim Fernández

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Maxim Fernández will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Omonoia Aradippou the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Ratinho 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 Omonoia Aradippou this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Omonoia Aradippou

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

The dugout

Paris Polykarpou 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.

Boardroom

Omonoia Aradippou counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Omonoia Aradippou now.

Market

Konstantinos Panteli told to find a new club

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

The dugout

Paris Polykarpou has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Omonoia Aradippou 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.

Market

The Jorginho story refuses to die

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

In brief