From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match18 Oct 2027
Volos NPS are in real trouble nowPosition 13, 5 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match16 Oct 2027
No end in sight to Volos NPS 's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Volos NPS has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad18 Oct 2027
“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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad13 Sep 2027
Giorgos Nikas : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Volos NPS have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Joca out for 37 daysThe medical room confirms 37 days on the sidelines for Joca , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match11 Sep 2027
A 2-1 win over Panserraikos , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad13 Sep 2027
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“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.
Market13 Sep 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.
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Crisis
Match4 Sep 2027
No end in sight to Volos NPS 's wait for a win
14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Volos NPS has to find a result from somewhere.
Match4 Sep 2027
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Joca loses the armbandThe captaincy has been taken off Joca . Volos NPS will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market6 Sep 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Volos NPS know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad6 Sep 2027
At 21 years old, Ignacio Gamarra became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Market6 Sep 2027
“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.
Market6 Sep 2027
A season-long audition: Olympiacos still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Volos NPS 's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.
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Crisis
Squad16 Aug 2027
Joca out for 67 daysThe medical room confirms 67 days on the sidelines for Joca , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad16 Aug 2027
44 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“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.
Joca Joca out for 67 days
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Crisis
Squad19 Jul 2027
Joca out for 97 daysThe medical room confirms 97 days on the sidelines for Joca , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad19 Jul 2027
76 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“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.
Joca Joca out for 97 days
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Crisis
Market12 Jul 2027
The fee is $680.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Deportes Quindio drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Ignacio Gamarra keeps the shirt for now, at Volos NPS 's convenience rather than his own.
In brief
Squad
The manager comes out for Joca
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Uneasy
Squad21 Jun 2027
Joca out for 127 daysThe medical room confirms 127 days on the sidelines for Joca , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad21 Jun 2027
104 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“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.
Joca Joca out for 127 days
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Uneasy
Match6 Feb 2027
10 matches without a win for Volos NPS
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Volos NPS are no longer polite ones.
Squad8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Nikos Vlioras
“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.
Match6 Feb 2027
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Volos NPS can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 257% of everything Volos NPS 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Asteras made Volos NPS work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Joca finally opens his accountHe wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Volos NPS have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
In brief
Squad
Carlos Rivas handed the armband
The terraces
The press cannot get enough of Joca
The terraces
Joca has his own song now
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market10 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Volos NPS did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Volos NPS have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Matías González and Volos NPS agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Matías González
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Joca 's contract
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.