Marked for Asterios Giakoumis
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Jul 2027
Domi Berlanga 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.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad26 Jul 2027
34 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Thodoris Albanis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
OFI have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
A loan enquiry to AEL Larisa: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
“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.
Market26 Jul 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Domi Berlanga’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Steady
Squad5 Jul 2027
22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kampaniakos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market5 Jul 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kampaniakos can pretend not to have heard.
Market5 Jul 2027
The fee is $960.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Levadiakos drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Olympiacos is saying, and nobody at Kampaniakos is enjoying the guessing.
Squad5 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kampaniakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
AEK wanted more than $42.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
The terraces5 Jul 2027
Kampaniakos spend $960.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $960.0K for Dimitris Emmanouilidis, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Kampaniakos asked and Aris Thessaloniki said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at Kampaniakos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thodoris Albanis 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.
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Steady
Squad28 Jun 2027
Aitor Morcillo damages knee ligaments — 30 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 30 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Kampaniakos had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at AEK, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
The offer went to Levadiakos this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Kampaniakos have gone to AEK with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
$36.0K on the table at Ilioupoli. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Antonis Trimmatis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Antonio Salado was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 Jun 2027
65 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market28 Jun 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Domi Berlanga’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad14 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Aitor Morcillo
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kampaniakos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
$1.2M settles it between the clubs for Mijat Gaćinović
AEK have accepted the money. What Kampaniakos do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at AEK is saying, and nobody at Kampaniakos is enjoying the guessing.
Squad14 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kampaniakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
$36.0K on the table at Ilioupoli. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AEK have kept their man, and Kampaniakos go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Thodoris Albanis 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Kampaniakos has been clear about where Asterios Giakoumis stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Christos Eleftheriadis's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Steady
Squad1 Mar 2027
21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kampaniakos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad1 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kampaniakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Paris Ntoumanis for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Kampaniakos will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Market1 Mar 2027
“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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Thodoris Albanis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“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.
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Steady
Squad22 Feb 2027
28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kampaniakos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Domi Berlanga and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Antonio Salado was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
Wages swallow 99% of the Kampaniakos 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.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Christos Eleftheriadis's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Market22 Feb 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Tarzan’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad15 Feb 2027
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kampaniakos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at AEK is saying, and nobody at Kampaniakos is enjoying the guessing.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Aitor Morcillo 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Paris Ntoumanis 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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Nikos Katharios is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Kampaniakos would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Steady
Squad8 Feb 2027
43 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kampaniakos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad8 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kampaniakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dimitris Karadalis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Kostas Kastidis
“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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Kampaniakos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kampaniakos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dimitris Karadalis is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Antonio Salado 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 dugout21 Dec 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Something was said to Nasser Aboudou and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“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.
Match19 Dec 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. PAOK B defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Market21 Dec 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Domi Berlanga’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kampaniakos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Tarzan scores twice — 8.71
Two goals and a mark of 8.71 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad14 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kampaniakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Kampaniakos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Antonio Salado 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Tarzan’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Kampaniakos.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Michalis Panagidis has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Eleftherios Mavropanos could afford to be generous.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
The one thing Domi Berlanga could not do
Shots: 6, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Looking ahead14 Dec 2026
PAOK B next, and one man in the Kampaniakos dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Crisis
Squad7 Dec 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kampaniakos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad7 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kampaniakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Dec 2026
Makedonikos left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Nikos Botis
“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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kelvin Lamptey-Mills and Kampaniakos agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Kampaniakos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dimitris Karadalis 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.
Looking ahead7 Dec 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against PAS Giannina in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market7 Dec 2026
The Tarzan talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Kampaniakos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kampaniakos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Domi Berlanga and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Antonio Salado 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 148% of everything Kampaniakos earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The terraces30 Nov 2026
The crowd has taken to Nikos Botis
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Eleftherios Mavropanos was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Kampaniakos dressing room was either.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kampaniakos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Domi Berlanga 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Kampaniakos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Antonio Salado 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Paris Ntoumanis. 1‑0 against Kavala, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.10, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Eleftherios Mavropanos, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Looking ahead23 Nov 2026
Kampaniakos take on the side everybody is chasing
Iraklis arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
11 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kampaniakos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Kampaniakos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Domi Berlanga 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.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Kavala in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Match16 Nov 2026
Continental football is in reach for Kampaniakos
13 points from position 5. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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 Angelos Papasterianos has written the date down.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Joel Sousa knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Joel Sousa trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Home comforts ahead for Kampaniakos
Kavala, position 7, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager comes out for Tarzan
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Tarzan has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Crisis
Match7 Nov 2026
Chastening afternoon for Kampaniakos
A 1‑5 beating by Anagennisi Karditsa was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kampaniakos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match7 Nov 2026
4 matches without a win for Kampaniakos
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Kampaniakos are no longer polite ones.
Match7 Nov 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Kampaniakos and Anagennisi Karditsa in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Antonio Salado 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandros Parras, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Paris Ntoumanis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match9 Nov 2026
Half the programme played, position 5, 13 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Boardroom9 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Kampaniakos dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kampaniakos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Antonio Salado was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 148% of everything Kampaniakos earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Kampaniakos are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Christos Eleftheriadis's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Match31 Oct 2026
Point won or two lost for Kampaniakos?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Niki Volos? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Looking ahead2 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Anagennisi Karditsa in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 79 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Aitor Morcillo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Eleftherios Mavropanos after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match24 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Nestos Chrysoupoli will be the happier side with the point.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Niki Volos in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market26 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Domi Berlanga’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kampaniakos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match19 Oct 2026
Kampaniakos refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 11 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Domi Berlanga 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Antonio Salado 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 dugout19 Oct 2026
Nikos Botis gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 35, 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Tarzan had Kampaniakos level again within 4 minutes, and Asteras Tripolis B never got to play with a lead at all.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Antonio Salado ran the middle of the pitch — 6.85
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 6.85, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kampaniakos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Kampaniakos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kampaniakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Kampaniakos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Antonio Salado 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Angelos Papasterianos, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kampaniakos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Antonio Salado — 7.80
Marked 7.80. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Kostas Kastidis is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Domi Berlanga and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Antonio Salado. 3‑1 against PAOK B, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 186% of the Kampaniakos 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Kampaniakos
11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Eleftherios Mavropanos kept it short after the 3‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Steady
Match23 Sep 2026
The small margins put Kampaniakos out
Out, 0‑5 to Aris Thessaloniki, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kampaniakos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
0-5, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Domi Berlanga 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Panagiotis Lygas ran the middle of the pitch — 6.90
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 13 combined actions and a mark of 6.90, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Kampaniakos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Antonio Salado 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
PAS Giannina made Kampaniakos work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kampaniakos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Antonio Salado was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.93 on the card, and the Kampaniakos support went home talking about one name.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Paris Ntoumanis 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
It needed Domi Berlanga to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Makedonikos, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Eleftherios Mavropanos was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Kampaniakos dressing room was either.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against PAS Giannina in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The plan did not have a place for Nasser Aboudou
Nobody at Kampaniakos is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Chances created: 6. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kampaniakos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dimitris Karadalis is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Kampaniakos, another week without a signature from Tarzan.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Eleftherios Mavropanos after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Match12 Sep 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Iraklis defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 133 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 22 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Kampaniakos until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Antonio Salado 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Kampaniakos
11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Antonis Dermitzakis 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.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Iraklis next, and one man in the Kampaniakos dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Kampaniakos, another week without a signature from Joel Sousa.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Joel Sousa knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Joel Sousa trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Triumph
Squad31 Aug 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kampaniakos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.53 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Domi Berlanga 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Kampaniakos and Kavala, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match29 Aug 2026
Kavala made Kampaniakos work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Joel Sousa arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Joel Sousa has, at Kampaniakos, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
1 academy graduates step up at Kampaniakos
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Antonio Salado was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Panserraikos have kept their man, and Kampaniakos go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kampaniakos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Kampaniakos had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at OFI, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Domi Berlanga 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Kampaniakos asked and Aris Thessaloniki said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to AEL Larisa: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
OFI have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.