Marked for Anastasios Tachtsidis
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad4 Jun 2040
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Levadiakos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom4 Jun 2040
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Boardroom4 Jun 2040
The Levadiakos board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Market4 Jun 2040
Panetolikos come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Levadiakos did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad4 Jun 2040
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Levadiakos may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad4 Jun 2040
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Guus Xavi Simons has just signed for Levadiakos, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad4 Jun 2040
Filip Artykiewicz was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market4 Jun 2040
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Levadiakos will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market4 Jun 2040
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Theofilos Kakadiaris has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Levadiakos.
In brief
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Boardroom
Levadiakos pull $589.5K back off the table
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Market
Levadiakos shop where it costs nothing
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Boardroom
The Levadiakos production line keeps running
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad29 Aug 2039
A fracture rules Evangelos Donis out for 106 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Levadiakos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad29 Aug 2039
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Levadiakos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market29 Aug 2039
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market29 Aug 2039
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Levadiakos they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad29 Aug 2039
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Levadiakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom29 Aug 2039
7 academy players handed senior numbers at Levadiakos
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.
Squad29 Aug 2039
Words at Levadiakos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikolay Popov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match27 Aug 2039
0‑2 to Atromitos, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market29 Aug 2039
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Apostolos Tsimikas 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market25 Jul 2039
The deal that would have taken Ugo Lamare El Kadmiri to Panserraikos has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Levadiakos with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad25 Jul 2039
Dimitris Emmanouilidis was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad25 Jul 2039
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.