Patrick Singh

Striker - Hellas Syros
19 Apr 2036
Saturday
Process

Marked for Patrick Singh

486 Edition

The Hellas Syros Gazette

19 Nov 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Patrick Singh keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Hellas Syros may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Words exchanged at Hellas Syros

Vangelis Kontogiannis 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.

Squad

Marcos Mina is slowing down

At 36, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Squad

Words at Hellas Syros training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ricardo Cartaxo 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.

Squad

Alexander Abrahamsson wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Hellas Syros can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout

Ginés Sorroche gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ginés Sorroche is on it.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Vangelis Kontogiannis

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Chania in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

Market

Ricardo Cartaxo runs his contract down

4 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Hellas Syros money.

The dugout

Vangelis Kontogiannis has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Vangelis Kontogiannis has written the date down.

In brief

Back issues
437 Edition

The Hellas Syros Gazette

11 Dec 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for João Leal

81 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hellas Syros lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout

Patrick Singh: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Hellas Syros have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Paris Babis 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 Hellas Syros this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Hellas Syros find a way past Athens Kallithea

Athens Kallithea made Hellas Syros work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Boardroom

No signings allowed at Hellas Syros

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

Squad

Armir Koxha falls out with a teammate over standards

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.

Market

Hellas Syros and Pedro Miguéis are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Player ratings

Ginés Sorroche stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.87 on the card, and the Hellas Syros support went home talking about one name.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Alfie Jones

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Hellas Syros told Alfie Jones something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief