The Kavala Chronicle
Squad5 Jul 2027
The knee: Vasilis Dimosthenous out for 96 days
96 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kavala lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market5 Jul 2027
Vasilis Papadopoulos hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kavala can pretend not to have heard.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Kavala
Manu Sánchez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at Kavala training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nacim El Hassani 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.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Kavala ask about Giorgos Kosteas
A loan enquiry to Egaleo: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Intake day at the Kavala academy
5 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Uri is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Uri has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Vasilis Papadopoulos
“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.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
Jakub Hruštinec has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Kavala will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- Market 11 months and counting on Alejandro Bua
- Market Yamil Silva runs his contract down
- Market Vasilis Gavriilidis placed on the list