Marked for Tadeo Cedrés
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Uneasy
Squad23 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kavala this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Kavala
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandros Kartalis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
A loan enquiry to Atromitos: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
A loan move for Joel Abu Hanna is in the works
Kavala have made the call to Levadiakos. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fanis Roibas, and the manager let it.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Kavala will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Transfer targets31 May 2027
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad31 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kavala this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 May 2027
Words at Kavala training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandros Kartalis 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.
Squad31 May 2027
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Kavala are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Market31 May 2027
The shop window has Bilal Mazhar in it
Kavala have let the market know Bilal Mazhar can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Market31 May 2027
Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Kavala have gone and got theirs early.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Apr 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Exequiel Márquez and Kavala agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Kavala
Exequiel Márquez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words at Kavala training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jack Aitchison 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
At 37, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tadeo Cedrés, and the manager let it.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Kavala. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Triumph
Match19 Sep 2026
Kavala make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Kavala have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Kavala
Exequiel Márquez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Kavala
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jack Aitchison was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
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.
Match19 Sep 2026
PAS Giannina made Kavala work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Sep 2026
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Kavala will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.67 on the card, and the Kavala support went home talking about one name.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tadeo Cedrés commits to Kavala for another 4 years.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Konstantinos Galanopoulos, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Triumph
Match12 Sep 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Makedonikos, and it could have been more.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.06 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kavala will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market14 Sep 2026
“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 Sep 2026
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Manuel Baldé, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Kavala training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luca Andrada 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.