Mario Barone

Defensive Midfielder - Nea Salamis
13 Apr 2031
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245 Edition

The Nea Salamis Sentinel

7 Apr 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market7 Apr 2031

Ricardo Martins puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nea Salamis, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad7 Apr 2031

Alberto Varo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alberto Varo commits to Nea Salamis for another 2 years.

Squad7 Apr 2031

A falling-out at Nea Salamis

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

Squad7 Apr 2031

Words at Nea Salamis training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sergio González 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.

Boardroom7 Apr 2031

98% of the income goes out in wages at Nea Salamis

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Market7 Apr 2031

1 months and counting on Cristóbal Vargas

Still no offer on the table, and Cristóbal Vargas’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Squad7 Apr 2031

Home is on Alex Xavier's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Nea Salamis are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout7 Apr 2031

No hiding place for Carlos Peixoto

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Carlos Peixoto, and the manager let it.

Market7 Apr 2031

Still no signature from Lautaro Centurión

1 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Nea Salamis could get for him.

In brief

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238 Edition

The Nea Salamis Sentinel

17 Feb 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match17 Feb 2031

Nea Salamis sink to position 12

18 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match15 Feb 2031

A hiding for Nea Salamis

Beaten 0‑3 by Omonoia, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Match17 Feb 2031

Nea Salamis finish in position 12

18 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Market17 Feb 2031

Lautaro Centurión is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nea Salamis is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad17 Feb 2031

Alberto Varo stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

The dugout17 Feb 2031

Mario Barone: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Nea Salamis have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Boardroom17 Feb 2031

Lautaro Centurión signs for Apollon while still at Nea Salamis

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Lautaro Centurión has agreed terms with Apollon for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad17 Feb 2031

Words exchanged at Nea Salamis

Alberto Varo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad17 Feb 2031

Filipe Cruz 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.

In brief

209 Edition

The Nea Salamis Sentinel

29 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad29 Jul 2030

Alberto Varo breaks a bone — 38 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market29 Jul 2030

Ricardo Martins puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nea Salamis, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad29 Jul 2030

Mario Barone is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad29 Jul 2030

Tempers go at Nea Salamis

Darío Poveda 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.

Squad29 Jul 2030

A row about effort at Nea Salamis

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Filipe Cruz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout29 Jul 2030

The manager makes an example of Dimitris Irodotou

“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.

Transfer targets29 Jul 2030

Nea Salamis ask about Antonis Siatounis

A loan enquiry to Apollon: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout29 Jul 2030

Filipe Cruz knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Filipe Cruz trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout29 Jul 2030

Rodrigo Olivares has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Nea Salamis 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.

In brief

205 Edition

The Nea Salamis Sentinel

1 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad1 Jul 2030

Alberto Varo breaks a bone — 66 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 66 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad1 Jul 2030

Andreas Panagiotou in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nea Salamis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad1 Jul 2030

Mario Barone is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad1 Jul 2030

Words at Nea Salamis training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sergio González 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.

Market1 Jul 2030

Still no ink between Nea Salamis and Filipe Cruz

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Nea Salamis, another week without a signature from Filipe Cruz.

The dugout1 Jul 2030

The manager makes an example of Azer Kozić

“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.

In brief

164 Edition

The Nea Salamis Sentinel

17 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad17 Sep 2029

The knee: Fotis Soteriou out for 113 days

113 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Nea Salamis lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match15 Sep 2029

Nea Salamis taken apart

0‑3 to Pafos, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

The dugout17 Sep 2029

Dimitris Irodotou says Nea Salamis 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.

Squad17 Sep 2029

Tempers go at Nea Salamis

Darío Poveda 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.

Squad17 Sep 2029

Sergio González 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.

Transfer targets17 Sep 2029

Door shut on Joel Poiso

Nea Salamis asked and Omonoia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout17 Sep 2029

No hiding place for Vasilis Lampropoulos

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vasilis Lampropoulos, and the manager let it.

Boardroom17 Sep 2029

Doors closed at Nea Salamis

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout17 Sep 2029

Interim Coach: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief