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From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match30 Sep 2028
11 matches without a win for Kampaniakos
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Kampaniakos are no longer polite ones.
Match27 Sep 2028
Aris Thessaloniki go through and Kampaniakos go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
The terraces2 Oct 2028
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Market2 Oct 2028
“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.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Paris Ntoumanis 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.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mamadou Gning was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout2 Oct 2028
“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.
Loan watch2 Oct 2028
“I watch every Kampaniakos game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Omonia 29M runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Boardroom
Wages swallow 91% of the Kampaniakos income
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Squad
Mamadou Gning makes the team of the month
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad18 Oct 2027
15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kampaniakos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match16 Oct 2027
No end in sight to Kampaniakos's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kampaniakos has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Aarón Rey 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 Kampaniakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match16 Oct 2027
Kavala left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
No hiding place for Leon Ćuk
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leon Ćuk, and the manager let it.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Panagiotis Santis 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.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Vasileios Tzolis to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Spyros Chatzikyriakos's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Looking ahead18 Oct 2027
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Giorgos Papadopoulos’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Kampaniakos needing him to play as if none of it matters.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom28 Jun 2027
Pressure builds in the Kampaniakos boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Dimos Tenekes breaks a bone — 22 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market28 Jun 2027
“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 Kampaniakos, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market28 Jun 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Christos Kasapidis will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kampaniakos the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Jun 2027
47 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Aarón Rey 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 Kampaniakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
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.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
A loan enquiry to Niki Volos: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
A loan enquiry to Panathinaikos: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Vasileios Tzolis has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Squad7 Jun 2027
44 days out for Dimos Tenekes after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kampaniakos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market7 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kampaniakos can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dimitris Karadalis is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Aarón Rey and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Giorgos Tsapakidis commits to Kampaniakos for another 4 years.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Kampaniakos asked and OFI said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market7 Jun 2027
The name of Christos Kasapidis has come up in conversations Kampaniakos were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Panserraikos 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.