Efthymios Manolas

Defensive Midfielder - Makedonikos U18
25 Nov 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Efthymios Manolas

2 Edition

The Makedonikos Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A move Christos Kryparakos 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. Christos Kryparakos is living that version at Makedonikos, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets

Giannis Sourdis will not be coming to Makedonikos

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Levadiakos is saying, and nobody at Makedonikos is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Borja López signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Borja López and Makedonikos agree another 3 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Makedonikos

Diego Parras and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Makedonikos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Borja López 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.

Market

One of our own: Stylianos Stafylidis joins the Makedonikos first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stylianos Stafylidis is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Efthymios Manolas steps up from the Makedonikos academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Efthymios Manolas 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.

Market

Makedonikos promote Anastasios Diamantakos from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Anastasios Diamantakos 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.

Market

Makedonikos promote Theodoros Papagiannopoulos from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Theodoros Papagiannopoulos 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.

In brief