Christos Loukaidis

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Anorthosis
21 Oct 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Christos Loukaidis

60 Edition

The Anorthosis Chronicle

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

95 days out for Salvador Agra after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Anorthosis will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

The step up is real for Evagoras Charalabous

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Market

Uroš Đerić is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Anorthosis is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Christos Loukaidis

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words exchanged at Anorthosis

Clifford Aboagye and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at Anorthosis

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

Match

Anorthosis come up short against Aris

Aris left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Nemanja Tošić

“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 dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Georgios Artymatas left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

  • The dugout Kiko gets picked when it counts
  • The dugout Edmilson knocks on the manager's door
  • Market Dimitris Theodorou is free to find somewhere else
Back issues
57 Edition

The AE Kition Sentinel

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Yerson Chacón was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 49. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

A fracture rules Dimitris Chatziisaias out for 112 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AE Kition will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Dimitris Chatziisaias asks to leave AE Kition

“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.

Market

Anorthosis come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and AE Kition did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Hrvoje Miličević has said yes to Apollon

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. AE Kition have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Not going: Giorgos Naoum stays at AE Kition

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” AEL had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Squad

Tempers go at AE Kition

Pere Pons 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.

Squad

Christos Loukaidis is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

A late step up for Youssef Amyn

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

In brief

57 Edition

The Anorthosis Chronicle

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Salvador Agra breaks a bone — 117 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 117 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Stijn Middendorp has said yes to Nea Salamis

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Anorthosis have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Imerson asks to leave Anorthosis

“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 targets

Door shut on Đorđe Ivanović

Anorthosis asked and AE Kition 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 targets

The paperwork begins on Christos Loukaidis

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

Match

Anorthosis cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Tempers go at Anorthosis

Clifford Aboagye 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.

Squad

Real improvement from João Assunção at Anorthosis

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. João Assunção is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Boardroom

1 academy graduates step up at Anorthosis

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

In brief

48 Edition

The AE Kition Sentinel

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

AE Kition turn down AEL for Yerson Chacón

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Only the photograph left for Hrvoje Miličević

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Hrvoje Miličević will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AE Kition the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at AE Kition

Pere Pons and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Christos Loukaidis is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market

Eyes on Youssef Amyn again

The phone has started ringing about Youssef Amyn again, and this time the name on the line is Agia Napa. AE Kition are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Words at AE Kition training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Miramón 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.

Squad

Late improvement for Sten Reinkort

At 29 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

The dugout

No hiding place for Zlatan Alomerović

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

Market

Andreas Paraskeva is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at AE Kition has been clear about where Andreas Paraskeva stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief