The Marko Herald
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Alexandros Safarikas says Marko went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Filip Bainović 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Marko
Alexander Johansson 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Marko lose Christos Theodorakis
36 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
Wages eat 112% of everything Marko earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Iván Müller 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Anthony Wesley is a square peg at Marko
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Market22 Feb 2027
The Tasos Donis talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Marko know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market22 Feb 2027
Talks stall between Marko and Martín Lucero
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
In brief
- The dugout Babis Pavlidis has been promised minutes
- Market Babis Pavlidis placed on the list
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Kostas Thymianis