The APOEL Courier
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Vintage Pieros Sotiriou — 7.85
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.85, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at APOEL
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Konstantinos Laifis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at APOEL
Daniel Mancini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
Savvas Michos has seen enough of Ermis
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at APOEL, and 0 appearances in 25 say he has earned the hearing.
Market8 Feb 2027
APOEL promote Grigoris Laban from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Grigoris Laban 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Pieros Sotiriou the difference as APOEL beat AE Kition
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Pieros Sotiriou. 1‑0 against AE Kition, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Kostakis Artymatas stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kostakis Artymatas and APOEL agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Yusuff Adewale wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at APOEL can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Kostakis Artymatas 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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout Kostakis Artymatas has become a man the manager trusts
- Looking ahead Evagoras Antoniou faces his old club