Índio

Central Midfielder - Ermis
15 Jun 2027
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Marked for Índio

46 Edition

The Ermis Gazette

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match14 Jun 2027

Every point is an argument now for Ermis

Position 13 and 17 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Transfer targets14 Jun 2027

Ermis agree $1.1M for Domingos Quina

The clubs have shaken hands with Pafos; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Transfer targets14 Jun 2027

Ermis bid $360.0K for Giannis Masouras

The offer went to Omonoia this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets14 Jun 2027

Ermis baulk at the price for Gabriel Pereira

APOEL wanted more than $370.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Tempers go at Ermis

Ben Yagan 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.

Squad14 Jun 2027

A row about effort at Ermis

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

The dugout14 Jun 2027

Emerson Martins 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.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Lysandros Papastylianou: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Ermis will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

The dugout14 Jun 2027

Lysandros Papastylianou knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lysandros Papastylianou trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

Back issues
45 Edition

The Ermis Gazette

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom7 Jun 2027

Ermis put Jason Kastanos on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Boardroom7 Jun 2027

Crisis meeting at Ermis

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Market7 Jun 2027

Michalis Sofroniou asks to leave Ermis

“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

Fotis Kitsos is a medical away from Ermis

The deal with Omonoia is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad7 Jun 2027

A falling-out at Ermis

Serif Berbic and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout7 Jun 2027

The manager makes an example of Alexandros Parras

“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 dugout7 Jun 2027

Fanos Katelaris loses the manager who believed in him

A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Fanos Katelaris's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Índio is a square peg at Ermis

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.

Squad7 Jun 2027

A row about effort at Ermis

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

In brief

44 Edition

The Ermis Gazette

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad31 May 2027

A row about effort at Ermis

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

Squad31 May 2027

A falling-out at Ermis

Giorgos Thoma and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market31 May 2027

A stepping stone, not a home, for Índio

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Ermis were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

In brief