The Apollon Gazette
Squad30 Nov 2026
The knee: Gui Ferreira out for 21 days
21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Apollon lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match28 Nov 2026
Lazar Marković leads the rout of Paralimni
3‑0, and Lazar Marković took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Apollon tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Vintage Garry Rodrigues — 8.14
At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.14, and nobody on the pitch better.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Gaëtan Weissbeck beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Apollon
Emanuel Aiwu 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
140% of the income goes out in wages at Apollon
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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Joel Asoro 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 ratings30 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Lazar Marković 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 Apollon.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Gustavo Assunção 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.
In brief
- Market David Crespo is free to find somewhere else
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Bruno Gaspar