Marked for Đorđe Ivanović
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Steady
Market28 Feb 2028
“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.
Market28 Feb 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Emiliano Velazco will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AE Kition the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Mike van der Hoorn 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.
Squad28 Feb 2028
“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.
Boardroom28 Feb 2028
Wages eat 111% of everything AE Kition 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.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Words at AE Kition training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yerson Chacón 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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Crisis
Market17 Jan 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market17 Jan 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what AE Kition can pretend not to have heard.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Mike van der Hoorn 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.
Match15 Jan 2028
1‑3 to Ethnikos Achnas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings17 Jan 2028
Waldo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.50. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad17 Jan 2028
The manager makes an example of Jairo
“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.
Squad17 Jan 2028
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Zlatan Alomerović will call it something else in private.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Words at AE Kition training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yerson Chacón 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.
Player ratings17 Jan 2028
Riad Bajić leaves them behind him
Shots: 4. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
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Crisis
Market10 Jan 2028
AE Kition say no — this time
The offer from Apollon for Riad Bajić was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market10 Jan 2028
“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.
Boardroom10 Jan 2028
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Emiliano Velazco has agreed terms with Nea Salamis for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Jan 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Marcus Rohdén 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.
Match8 Jan 2028
Nea Salamis left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 Jan 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mike van der Hoorn, and the manager let it.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
Ninety minutes of Đorđe Ivanović at his very best
Marked 8.63. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AE Kition.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
Nobody could get near Waldo
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Market3 Jan 2028
“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.
Squad3 Jan 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AE Kition may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
The terraces3 Jan 2028
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Market3 Jan 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AE Kition is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad3 Jan 2028
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and AE Kition have had the benefit of it.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Aidar Khabibullin 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.
Market3 Jan 2028
The phone has started ringing about Hrvoje Miličević again, and this time the name on the line is Apollon. AE Kition are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Marcus Rohdén 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.
Match1 Jan 2028
0‑2 to Omonoia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Steady
Market27 Dec 2027
“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 AE Kition, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad27 Dec 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.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
Age has not caught Riad Bajić yet — 7.95
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.95 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Mike van der Hoorn 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.
Match25 Dec 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Đorđe Ivanović. 2‑1 against Paralimni, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
A performance of 8.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Enzo Cabrera is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.20 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Chabos Kyriakou 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings20 Dec 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.59 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Kewin Komar: 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.” AE Kition have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Jorge Miramón 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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Marcus Rohdén 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.
Match18 Dec 2027
A 2‑1 win over Doxa, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad20 Dec 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.
Player ratings20 Dec 2027
3.51. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
Player ratings20 Dec 2027
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market20 Dec 2027
The Waldo story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Waldo signs something — a contract at AE Kition or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Match8 Dec 2027
APOEL ended it 0‑0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad13 Dec 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AE Kition may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match11 Dec 2027
7 matches without a win for AE Kition
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around AE Kition are no longer polite ones.
Squad13 Dec 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 AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Words at AE Kition training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcus Rohdén 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 terraces13 Dec 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Pantelis Michail 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.
Squad13 Dec 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.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
A masterclass from Waldo
Marked 8.05 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Crisis
Squad22 Nov 2027
Jorge Miramón 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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Marcus Rohdén 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.
Match20 Nov 2027
Enzo Cabrera scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to AEL, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad22 Nov 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.
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
Ninety minutes of Enzo Cabrera at his very best
Marked 8.28. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AE Kition.
Squad22 Nov 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and AE Kition know it.
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Steady
Market15 Nov 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 AE Kition can pretend not to have heard.
Squad15 Nov 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 AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mike van der Hoorn, and the manager let it.
Player ratings15 Nov 2027
Waldo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.35. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad15 Nov 2027
32 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Chabos Kyriakou 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.
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Upbeat
Squad1 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Zlatan Alomerović
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AE Kition lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market1 Nov 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 AE Kition can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Nov 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 AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Words at AE Kition training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcus Rohdén 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.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Enzo Cabrera was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.88. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Waldo 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.
Match30 Oct 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Enzo Cabrera. 1‑0 against Apollon, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Loan watch1 Nov 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at AE Kition, and 4 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Squad25 Oct 2027
Zlatan Alomerović damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Jorge Miramón 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.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Kewin Komar pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Match23 Oct 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad25 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Gustavo Ledes
“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
Squad18 Oct 2027
Zlatan Alomerović damages knee ligaments — 34 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 34 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.
Match16 Oct 2027
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Enzo Cabrera scored in the 85th minute, Ethnikos Achnas had already begun thinking about the journey home, and AE Kition took the lot.
Match18 Oct 2027
AE Kition are in real trouble now
Position 12, 7 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.
Squad18 Oct 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 AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words at AE Kition training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcus Rohdén 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yerson Chacón, and the manager let it.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
A performance of 8.12 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
The chances came and went for Riad Bajić
6 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
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Crisis
Squad11 Oct 2027
Zlatan Alomerović damages knee ligaments — 41 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 41 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Jorge Miramón 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Jimmy signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jimmy commits to AE Kition for another 3 years.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Marcus Rohdén 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.
Match9 Oct 2027
Nea Salamis left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
A performance of 8.40 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
The chances came and went for Riad Bajić
5 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
The terraces11 Oct 2027
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
Shots: 5, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Uneasy
Squad27 Sep 2027
Zlatan Alomerović damages knee ligaments — 55 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 55 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.
Match25 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for AE Kition
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad27 Sep 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 AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Marcus Rohdén 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.
Squad27 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.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Shots: 5, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Uneasy
Squad13 Sep 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Zlatan Alomerović
70 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AE Kition lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Age has not caught Marcus Rohdén yet — 8.50
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.50 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match11 Sep 2027
5 matches without a win for AE Kition
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around AE Kition are no longer polite ones.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Pantelis Michail: 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.” AE Kition have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. William Kaastrup is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Jorge Miramón 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.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market13 Sep 2027
No place for Jimmy in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jimmy has his answer from AE Kition; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Match11 Sep 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Ermis leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Squad6 Sep 2027
Zlatan Alomerović damages knee ligaments — 78 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 78 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.
Match4 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for AE Kition
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Spyros Abartzidis is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Squad6 Sep 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 AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Yerson Chacón has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Marked 8.15 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market6 Sep 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at AE Kition has been clear about where Hrvoje Miličević stands, which is more than many ever get.
Match4 Sep 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Crisis
Squad30 Aug 2027
Zlatan Alomerović damages knee ligaments — 85 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 85 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Jorge Zapata: 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.” AE Kition have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. François-Régis Mughe is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Jorge Miramón 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.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market30 Aug 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at AE Kition has been clear about where William Kaastrup stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market30 Aug 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Petros Merkis is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market30 Aug 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Petros Loizou has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market30 Aug 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Grigoris Kyriakou is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Crisis
Squad1 Mar 2027
Hrvoje Miličević damages knee ligaments — 86 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 86 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.
Match24 Feb 2027
The cup run ends for AE Kition
2‑3 against Omonoia, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market1 Mar 2027
“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.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
A brace, and Robert Mudražija takes the afternoon — 8.37
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Robert Mudražija provided it, and the 8.37 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
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 AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words at AE Kition training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcus Rohdén 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.
Squad1 Mar 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.
Match24 Feb 2027
AE Kition hit back inside 2 minutes
Omonoia held the lead for 2 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. AE Kition answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
The cruellest goal, and it is Álex Cardero's
A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and AE Kition will not try tonight.
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Steady
Match23 Jan 2027
AE Kition throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Aris the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that AE Kition will enjoy reviewing.
Market25 Jan 2027
Paralimni come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and AE Kition did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Jorge Miramón 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.
Squad25 Jan 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at AE Kition training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jairo 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at AE Kition pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Match23 Jan 2027
A 2‑2 draw with Aris leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market25 Jan 2027
The Riad Bajić talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AE Kition know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
A mark of 5.76 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Upbeat
Market11 Jan 2027
“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 AE Kition, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market11 Jan 2027
Pafos come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and AE Kition did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market11 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mathías González will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AE Kition the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Jorge Miramón 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
AE Kition are at home on the road
4 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Marcus Rohdén 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.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match9 Jan 2027
It finished 2‑1, and it was Riad Bajić’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to AE Kition.
Squad11 Jan 2027
No hiding place for Waldo
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Waldo, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Market4 Jan 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 AE Kition can pretend not to have heard.
Market4 Jan 2027
AE Kition say no — this time
The offer from APOEL for Mike van der Hoorn was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad4 Jan 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. AE Kition will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market4 Jan 2027
Petros Ioannou has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AE Kition they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad4 Jan 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 AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Jairo 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Chabos Kyriakou, and the manager let it.
Match2 Jan 2027
It needed Riad Bajić to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Omonoia, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Crisis
Squad21 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 AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at AE Kition training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcus Rohdén 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Marcus Rohdén
“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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Đorđe Ivanović could have had three
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An afternoon Jimmy will want back
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An afternoon Enzo Cabrera will want back
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Crisis
Market30 Nov 2026
“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 AE Kition, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad30 Nov 2026
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Jorge Miramón 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Marcus Rohdén 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Pafos left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Đorđe Ivanović
“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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Waldo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.09. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
97% of the income goes out in wages at AE Kition
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
Market30 Nov 2026
The Riad Bajić talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AE Kition know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Squad23 Nov 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 AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match21 Nov 2026
Robert Mudražija scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to AEL, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mike van der Hoorn, and the manager let it.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Robert Mudražija was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.00. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Jimmy is still paying for one afternoon at AE Kition
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Waldo could have had three
5 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
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.90 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Jorge Miramón 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Marcus Rohdén 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Three points for AE Kition, 3‑1 the final word against Anorthosis in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A masterclass from Waldo
Marked 8.62 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Jimmy 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Enric Saborit'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.
Boardroom16 Nov 2026
The AE Kition dressing room answers
Whatever was said behind that door, it worked: the pressing is back, the arguing has stopped, and the manager’s job is being defended in the only language that counts.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Jorge Miramón 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
Marcus Rohdén 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
It needed Marcus Rohdén to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Ethnikos Achnas, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Bruno gets it from the manager
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The manager has not finished forgetting Enric Saborit's mistake
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Đorđe Ivanović runs at them all day
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Off the pace: Jimmy
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Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marcus Rohdén, 35, rolls back the years — 8.62
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.62 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
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 AE Kition can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
The chase for Bruno ended with $460.0K changing hands and Pafos out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad7 Sep 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 AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Marcus Rohdén 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.
Squad7 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yerson Chacón, and the manager let it.
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Triumph
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marcus Rohdén, 35, rolls back the years — 8.67
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.67 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market31 Aug 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 AE Kition can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
The deal that would have taken Dimitris Dimitriou to Agia Napa has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to AE Kition with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad31 Aug 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 AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market31 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Yerson Chacón again, and this time the name on the line is Dinamo Tbilisi. AE Kition are listening politely and promising nothing.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
3 academy players handed senior numbers at AE Kition
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.05, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match29 Aug 2026
Three points for AE Kition, 2‑1 the final word against Pafos in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Waldo 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.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mike van der Hoorn and AE Kition agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 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 AE Kition this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Yerson Chacón has come up in conversations AE Kition were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at AE Kition training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Miramón 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
No place for Riad Bajić in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Riad Bajić has his answer from AE Kition; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at AE Kition, another week without a signature from Jorge Miramón.