The Panetolikos Courier
Squad18 Jan 2027
Youssouph Badji damages knee ligaments — 35 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 35 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market18 Jan 2027
Konrad Michalak 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 Panetolikos can pretend not to have heard.
Market18 Jan 2027
Terms done: Labros Smyrlis is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Panargiakos waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Panetolikos is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Elias Olsson says Panetolikos went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Panetolikos
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Unai Garcia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match16 Jan 2027
Panetolikos get the job done against Atromitos
A 3‑1 win over Atromitos, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
PAOK tell Panetolikos: Thiago Nuss is not for sale
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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Manolis Manolas pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
A masterclass from Salifou Soumah
Marked 8.26 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Player ratings Novica Eraković in the eights
- Player ratings Lenny Lobato in the eights
- Player ratings Charis Mavrias was unplayable