Giuseppe Padula

Defensive Midfielder - Hellas Syros
20 Aug 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Giuseppe Padula

103 Edition

The Hellas Syros Gazette

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The mood at Hellas Syros has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Davide Barosi

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Hellas Syros have done the hard part with Levadiakos, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

Hellas Syros make their move for Rémy Cabella

$40.0K on the table at Olympiacos. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

An offer of $13.0K for Charalampos Lykogiannis

Hellas Syros have gone to AEK with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

A row about effort at Hellas Syros

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Stefanos Katsikas

Hellas Syros asked and Volos NPS 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

A falling-out at Hellas Syros

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

Squad

No place for Giuseppe Padula in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Hellas Syros are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Market

Iraklis Garoufalias runs his contract down

1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Hellas Syros money.

In brief

Back issues
102 Edition

The Hellas Syros Gazette

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

The unthinkable, invoiced: Vasili Gordeziani sold

Asteras arrived with $950.0K and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.

The terraces

A $950.0K sale, and a town that did not want it

Vasili Gordeziani has gone, the accounts have $950.0K in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Transfer targets

Simos Papadopoulos due for a Hellas Syros medical

Everything agreed with Niki Volos, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

A falling-out at Hellas Syros

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

Squad

Rafa Salama 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 targets

Anagennisi Karditsa tell Hellas Syros: Alexandros Tsobanidis is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Boardroom

126% of the income goes out in wages at Hellas Syros

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Elias Börjesson wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Hellas Syros can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Transfer targets

Hellas Syros try to borrow Stefanos Katsikas

Volos NPS 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.

In brief