The Iraklis Courier
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $670.0K for Apostolos Apostolopoulos
Iraklis have gone to Panetolikos with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Iraklis go back to the board over Apostolos Apostolopoulos
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $723.1K — a club that wants Apostolos Apostolopoulos enough to be asked twice.
Market10 Aug 2026
Iraklis say no — this time
The offer from APEA Akrotiri for Nikos Botis was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Iraklis
Giorgos Manalis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Nikos Botis would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Nikos Botis is living that version at Iraklis, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Joeri Heerkens
Iraklis asked and Ajax said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Anastasios Samaris joins the Iraklis first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Anastasios Samaris is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Iraklis promote Nikos Bakasetas from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nikos Bakasetas has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Michalis Nikolaou steps up from the Iraklis academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michalis Nikolaou has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Squad Armando Dobra has outgrown this division
- Squad Nikos Botis signs on for more