The APOEL Courier
Squad30 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nanu
53 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. APOEL lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market30 Aug 2027
Besar Halimi asks to leave APOEL
“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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tamás Kiss says APOEL went back on their word
“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.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Pieros Sotiriou, 34, rolls back the years — 7.88
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.88 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Marquinhos 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 APOEL this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Panagiotis Kattirtzis is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
4 academy players handed senior numbers at APOEL
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.
Match28 Aug 2027
APOEL get the job done against Doxa
A 2‑1 win over Doxa, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market30 Aug 2027
One of our own: Andreas Laban joins the APOEL first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andreas Laban is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market APOEL promote Andreas Papoulis from within
- Market APOEL promote Charalambos Antoniou from within
- Player ratings Marquinhos in the eights