Marked for Anastasios Giakoumakis
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad23 Nov 2026
69 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Panserraikos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match21 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑4 by PAOK, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad23 Nov 2026
9 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Vernon de Marco 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Panserraikos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francisco Tinaglini 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Panserraikos can tell you which week it ends in.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Stéphane Omeonga, and the manager let it.
Match23 Nov 2026
Position 11, 8 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
In brief
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Boardroom
Nobody left the Panserraikos dressing room in a hurry
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Player ratings
Nontas Pantelakis will replay that one
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad16 Nov 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 77 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
0‑3 against Panetolikos, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad16 Nov 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Vernon de Marco 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Francisco Tinaglini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Francisco Tinaglini, and the manager let it.
Boardroom16 Nov 2026
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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Konstantinos Kourbelis after 0‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Andrei Ivan beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
84 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Panserraikos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Vernon de Marco and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ethan Brooks commits to Panserraikos for another 3 years.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Din Sula 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Din Sula gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Konstantinos Kourbelis after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Defensive actions: 14. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Jesús Vera does not fit this one
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Match7 Nov 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Atromitos came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.