David Crespo

Right Back - Apollon
27 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for David Crespo

18 Edition

The Apollon Gazette

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Match

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 ratings

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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 dugout

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
Back issues
16 Edition

The Apollon Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Gui Ferreira damages knee ligaments — 37 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 37 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.

Squad

Peter Leeuwenburgh stands alone

8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market

Mateo Pérez has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Apollon they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Emanuel Aiwu 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Apollon

Konstantinos Balogiannis 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Apollon against Pafos

0‑1 to Pafos, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Giorgos Kastanos faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Giorgos Kastanos after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

No hiding place for David Crespo

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

Player ratings

Pedro Marques runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief