Vasile Sova

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
31 Oct 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Vasile Sova

56 Edition

The Iraklis Courier

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Iraklis turn down Atromitos for Amr Warda

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Ilias Moysidis is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Iraklis is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Iraklis

Andrés Vombergar 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Dimitris Bataoulas

Iraklis asked and PAOK said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words at Iraklis training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brian Oliván 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.

Transfer targets

Iraklis try to borrow Facundo Pons

San Martín have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

When it matters, Javi Manquillo 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Abdul Rahman Weiss

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The terraces

Supporters make their feelings known about Ollie O'Neill

The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Iraklis would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.

In brief

Back issues
36 Edition

The Iraklis Courier

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The view from the top for Iraklis

39 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.

Squad

Home is on Amr Warda's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Iraklis are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Vasile Sova is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Words exchanged at Iraklis

Soufiane Chakla 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.

The dugout

Iraklis keep their word to Amr Warda

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

The dugout

Javi Manquillo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Iraklis 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.

Squad

Amr Warda loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Amr Warda. Iraklis will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

The dugout

No hiding place for Abdul Rahman Weiss

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

Market

The Róber Pier story refuses to die

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

In brief