The Ilioupoli Chronicle
Market7 Jun 2027
Dimitris Thomaidis asks to leave Ilioupoli
“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.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
No thanks: Argyris Liatsikouras rejects the move
Ilioupoli had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Olympiacos, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Ilioupoli
Michalis Kouiroukidis 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Ousmane Sountoura 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 targets7 Jun 2027
Ilioupoli rebuffed over Ezequiel Ramírez
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. All Boys have kept their man, and Ilioupoli go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
A loan move for Marco Campagnaro is in the works
Ilioupoli have made the call to Maipú. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A promotion for Judah Garcia
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Judah Garcia has moved up it.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A season on the outside for Diallo Sanoussi
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Ilioupoli has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Open for business: Ilioupoli enter the window
The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Ilioupoli and Kelwin
- The dugout The manager makes Antonis Papasavvas a promise