The Asteras Gazette
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: Asteras walk away from Giorgos Kyriakopoulos
$2.9M was the most the club would pay and Panathinaikos were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Asteras go back to the board over Giorgos Kyriakopoulos
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $3.1M — a club that wants Giorgos Kyriakopoulos enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Asteras
Julián Bartolo 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Asteras
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alberto Simoni was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Asteras rebuffed over Ivo Mammini
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Gimnasia La Plata have kept their man, and Asteras go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ioannis Mavropanos steps up from the Asteras academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ioannis Mavropanos has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Andreas Manolas joins the Asteras first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andreas Manolas is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Asteras promote Sotirios Papadopoulos from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sotirios Papadopoulos 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Asteras promote Pavlos Papagiannopoulos from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pavlos Papagiannopoulos 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.
In brief
- Squad Ricardinho remains an outsider
- Squad Giannis Kotsiras walks taller at Asteras