The Panathinaikos Post
Match14 May 2029
Panathinaikos refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 55 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market14 May 2029
Only the photograph left for Răzvan Marin
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Răzvan Marin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Panathinaikos the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market14 May 2029
Alexandro Bernabei raises the bar for Panathinaikos
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Panathinaikos heard it as anything else.
Squad14 May 2029
Davide Calabria 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 Panathinaikos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 May 2029
Anastasios Tsimikas 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.
The dugout14 May 2029
Andrews Tetteh gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Andrews Tetteh is on it.
The dugout14 May 2029
Guilherme Santos 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.
Loan watch14 May 2029
Nobody is scoring past Luka Gugeshashvili at Dinamo Tbilisi
7 shut-outs in 10 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Luka Gugeshashvili has been having a lot of them.
The dugout14 May 2029
Eddie Salcedo knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Panathinaikos, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Market Adriano Jagušić linked with a move away
- Squad Alexandro Bernabei wants to know why he earns less
- The dugout A door opens for Balša Popović