The Panserraikos Chronicle
Market17 Jul 2028
Ahmed Farouk 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 Panserraikos can pretend not to have heard.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Panserraikos
Vernon de Marco 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.
Squad17 Jul 2028
The step up is real for Charalabos Georgiadis
At 23 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.
Squad17 Jul 2028
A late step up for Ethan Brooks
At 27 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.
Transfer targets17 Jul 2028
Panserraikos rebuffed over João Mário
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AEK have kept their man, and Panserraikos go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Sasha Gomeniuk gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Sasha Gomeniuk has just signed for Panserraikos, and for once the answer mattered.
Market17 Jul 2028
Akron are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Panserraikos will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market17 Jul 2028
Panserraikos sign Sasha Gomeniuk, one for the future
Sasha Gomeniuk is 19, and Panserraikos have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market17 Jul 2028
Panserraikos buy the years ahead of Manolis Bargiotas
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
In brief
- The dugout Christos Kryparakos gets it from the manager
- The dugout Viktor Rumyantsev knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Darnell Bile