The Hellas Syros Gazette
The dugout19 Nov 2035
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.
Squad19 Nov 2035
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.
Squad19 Nov 2035
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.
Squad19 Nov 2035
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.
Squad19 Nov 2035
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 dugout19 Nov 2035
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 ahead19 Nov 2035
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.
Market19 Nov 2035
Ricardo Cartaxo runs his contract down
4 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Hellas Syros money.
The dugout19 Nov 2035
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
- Match Continental football is in reach for Hellas Syros
- Market Talks stall between Hellas Syros and Mihai Burca
- The dugout Christos Kasapidis asks for a word with the manager