The Panetolikos Courier
Boardroom8 Jan 2035
Panetolikos put Theodoros Giakoumakis on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Boardroom8 Jan 2035
The Panetolikos board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Squad8 Jan 2035
Tempers go at Panetolikos
Triantafyllos Tsapras was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market8 Jan 2035
Panserraikos expected to open talks for Ángel Romero
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Panetolikos will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Match6 Jan 2035
PAOK take the points off Panetolikos
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad8 Jan 2035
The manager makes an example of Ángel Romero
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad8 Jan 2035
Christian Manrique 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.
Squad8 Jan 2035
Kwadwo Opoku has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Panetolikos will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The terraces8 Jan 2035
The spotlight tightens on Ángel Romero
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Kwadwo Opoku
- Market Ivan Ananjev placed on the list
- Market Anastasios Retsos leaves for nothing