Kerlon

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Hellas Syros
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Marked for Kerlon

53 Edition

The Hellas Syros Gazette

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad2 Aug 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Paris Babis

23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hellas Syros lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market2 Aug 2027

Antonis Trimmatis hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hellas Syros can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets2 Aug 2027

Elias Olsson due for a Hellas Syros medical

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

Squad2 Aug 2027

Luciano Narsingh in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hellas Syros this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Words at Hellas Syros training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rafa Salama 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 targets2 Aug 2027

Hellas Syros rebuffed over Zisis Karachalios

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. OFI have kept their man, and Hellas Syros go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Kerlon 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 targets2 Aug 2027

Hellas Syros ask about Giannis Nikopolidis

A loan enquiry to Asteras: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout2 Aug 2027

Spyros Natsos gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Spyros Natsos is on it.

In brief

Back issues
48 Edition

The Hellas Syros Gazette

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Jun 2027

The knee: Cyril Zabou out for 25 days

25 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hellas Syros lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market28 Jun 2027

Kerlon asks to leave Hellas Syros

“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 targets28 Jun 2027

Matthaios Mountes due for a Hellas Syros medical

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

Squad28 Jun 2027

Cyril Zabou in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hellas Syros this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Spyros Natsos 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 targets28 Jun 2027

Door shut on Themis Tselios

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

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

A loan move for Zisis Chatzistravos is in the works

Hellas Syros have made the call to AEL Larisa. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

Hellas Syros ask about Argyris Liatsikouras

A loan enquiry to Olympiacos: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout28 Jun 2027

Angjelo Kola 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.

In brief

44 Edition

The Hellas Syros Gazette

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad31 May 2027

The knee: Cyril Zabou out for 53 days

53 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hellas Syros lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market31 May 2027

Spyros Natsos puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Hellas Syros, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad31 May 2027

A falling-out at Hellas Syros

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

Squad31 May 2027

A row about effort at Hellas Syros

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

The dugout31 May 2027

No hiding place for Vasili Gordeziani

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

Squad31 May 2027

Kingsford Boakye signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kingsford Boakye commits to Hellas Syros for another 3 years.

The dugout31 May 2027

Devid has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Hellas Syros 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.

The dugout31 May 2027

Thodoris Vernardos 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 Thodoris Vernardos trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market31 May 2027

Hellas Syros pick up Kingsford Boakye for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Kingsford Boakye arrives at Hellas Syros with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

In brief