The Panathinaikos Post
Market31 Aug 2026
Karol Świderski asks to leave Panathinaikos
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Santino Andino runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Panathinaikos
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market31 Aug 2026
Panathinaikos promote Efthymios Androutsos from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Efthymios Androutsos has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market31 Aug 2026
Panathinaikos promote Thanasis Tsimikas from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Thanasis Tsimikas has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market31 Aug 2026
Panathinaikos promote Anastasios Alexiou from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Anastasios Alexiou has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Emmanouil Tachtsidis was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Panathinaikos dressing room was either.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
Panathinaikos turn down the training-ground plan
It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Azzedine Ounahi
Nobody at Panathinaikos is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
In brief
- Match Panathinaikos draw a blank against PAOK
- Squad Country calls for Sverrir Ingi Ingason
- Squad Country calls for Karol Świderski