Marked for Jorge Pombo
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Squad28 Sep 2026
Moisés Ramírez decides it from twelve yards
3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match26 Sep 2026
Kifisia march on in the cup
PAOK are out and Kifisia go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match23 Sep 2026
Kifisia march on in the cup
PAOK are out and Kifisia go through, 0‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jorge Pombo 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 Kifisia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Kifisia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cheick Oumar Konaté 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Ché Nunnely at his very best
Marked 8.01. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Kifisia.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Gerson Sousa misses from twelve yards
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Alberto Botía
“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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Squad21 Sep 2026
Jorge Pombo 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Aleks Petkov
“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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Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 42. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Angelo Sagal yet — 7.83
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.83 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market14 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Apostolos Tsilingiris to Panserraikos has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Kifisia with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad14 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 Kifisia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over Atromitos, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jakub Pokorný 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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Market7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jorge Pombo 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
AEK take the points off Kifisia
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Moisés Ramírez, and the manager let it.
Market7 Sep 2026
The name of Apostolos Tsilingiris has come up in conversations Kifisia were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Cheick Oumar Konaté 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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Steady
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Kifisia sell a favourite for $1.8M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Jeremy Antonisse was one of the reasons people came, and $1.8M does not replace that by itself.
Market24 Aug 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 Kifisia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
Olympiacos paid $1.8M and Kifisia took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
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Market3 Aug 2026
Agia Napa come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Kifisia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Rubén Pérez for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Kifisia will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jakub Pokorný and Kifisia agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Jorge Pombo 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Kifisia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jakub Pokorný 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
“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.