The Nestos Chrysoupoli Chronicle
Squad14 Jun 2027
A fracture rules Panagiotis Ballas out for 23 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nestos Chrysoupoli will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market14 Jun 2027
Dorian Harnish asks to leave Nestos Chrysoupoli
“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 targets14 Jun 2027
Mansur will not be coming to Nestos Chrysoupoli
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Atromitos is saying, and nobody at Nestos Chrysoupoli is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Felipe Felício due for a Nestos Chrysoupoli medical
Everything agreed with Panionios, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Jan Vodháněl 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 Nestos Chrysoupoli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Door shut on Isidoros Koutsidis
Nestos Chrysoupoli asked and Kifisia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Kyriakos Giaxis 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.
Boardroom14 Jun 2027
Wages eat 101% of everything Nestos Chrysoupoli earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Nestos Chrysoupoli try to borrow Zisis Chatzistravos
AEL Larisa 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
- The dugout Mubaraq Adeshina knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager makes Franco Shea a promise
- The dugout The manager comes out for Filippos Dimitriadis