Kiko

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18 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Kiko

7 Edition

The Anorthosis Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Clifford Aboagye runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Kiko 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 The request is on a desk at Anorthosis, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Deadline beats Anorthosis to Veljko Nikolić

The clock did what Aris would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Squad

Clifford Aboagye 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 Anorthosis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

APOEL tell Anorthosis: Sunusi Ibrahim is not for sale

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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ronan Coughlan

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ronan Coughlan, and the manager let it.

Squad

A row about effort at Anorthosis

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Babacar Dione was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Christos Kosidis signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Christos Kosidis and Anorthosis agree another 4 years.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Kostakis Kolias chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

In brief

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The Anorthosis Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Clifford Aboagye signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Clifford Aboagye commits to Anorthosis for another 3 years.

Squad

Clifford Aboagye wants to go home

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

Squad

A falling-out at Anorthosis

Clifford Aboagye and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Doxa join the queue for Fanos Katelaris

Add another name to the list: Doxa have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Fanos Katelaris. The answer from Anorthosis has not changed — yet.

Transfer targets

Southampton tell Anorthosis: Baylee Dipepa is not for sale

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.

Market

Anorthosis and Kiko 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.

Market

49 months and counting on Jacob Karlstrøm

Still no offer on the table, and Jacob Karlstrøm’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Squad

A row about effort at Anorthosis

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Babacar Dione was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Anorthosis ask about Kypros Neofytou

A loan enquiry to AEL: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief