Anastasios Diamantakos

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Agia Napa
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The Agia Napa Gazette

21 Jul 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom21 Jul 2036

The scrutiny sharpens at Agia Napa

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Agia Napa is running low.

Market21 Jul 2036

Thiago Aranda has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Agia Napa they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market21 Jul 2036

Anastasios Diamantakos puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Agia Napa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad21 Jul 2036

Agia Napa count the cost of losing Mathias Nilsson

36 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Transfer targets21 Jul 2036

Steven Nufour due for a Agia Napa medical

Everything agreed with Aris, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad21 Jul 2036

Tempers go at Agia Napa

Marios Laifis 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.

Squad21 Jul 2036

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nesta Zahui 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.

The dugout21 Jul 2036

The manager makes an example of Giorgos Ioannou

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout21 Jul 2036

Mathias Nilsson knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Agia Napa, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

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The Agia Napa Gazette

8 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout8 Oct 2035

Alexis Metaxas says Agia Napa 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.

Squad8 Oct 2035

Danilo Miladinović 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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom8 Oct 2035

Agia Napa agree a free transfer for Franco Auyanet

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Squad8 Oct 2035

José Montes signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” José Montes commits to Agia Napa for another 3 years.

Boardroom8 Oct 2035

Wages swallow 264% of the Agia Napa income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Match6 Oct 2035

Agia Napa come up short against Ypsonas

Ypsonas left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout8 Oct 2035

The manager makes an example of Marios Laifis

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Boardroom8 Oct 2035

No signings allowed at Agia Napa

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.

Squad8 Oct 2035

The formation has left Grigorios Fortounis behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Agia Napa will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief