Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around PAS Giannina they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Alexis Kalogeropoulos 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words at PAS Giannina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Angelos Papadopoulos 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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at PAS Giannina, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. PAS Giannina know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Supporters organise against the PAS Giannina board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at PAS Giannina
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Angelos Tsiris is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vasilis Kitsakis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Jacques Bayo damages knee ligaments — 107 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 107 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.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.10 at 38, and nobody on the pitch was better.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at PAS Giannina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Astals was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Evangelos Tsadjaris on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jonny Arriba was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Dylan Tutonda 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.
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Evangelos Tsadjaris to a room that had heard them before.
The chase for Giannis Sardelis ended with $360.0K changing hands and Athens Kallithea out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at PAS Giannina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonny Arriba 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at PAS Giannina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
22 new faces, and PAS Giannina are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.