The Chania Gazette
Squad14 Feb 2033
The knee: Apostolos Diamantis out for 96 days
96 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Chania lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match14 Feb 2033
Chania refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 28 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market14 Feb 2033
So close: Nolan Tabar’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Panetolikos moved on, Nolan Tabar reports back to Chania, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad14 Feb 2033
A falling-out at Chania
Vasilis Varsamis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Feb 2033
A move Mathias Lien would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Mathias Lien is living that version at Chania, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets14 Feb 2033
Chania rebuffed over Duarte Almeida
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Panionios have kept their man, and Chania go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout14 Feb 2033
No hiding place for Bakary Jaiteh
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bakary Jaiteh, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Feb 2033
Abdalla Kasira 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.
The dugout14 Feb 2033
Tymoteusz Ryguła asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Nolan Tabar plays
- Market Still no ink between Chania and Skander Tahiri
- Market Daniel Nedelcearu joins Chania on a free