Marked for Markus Naglestad
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ermis
Markus Naglestad 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Ermis would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Questions about Giannis Efstathiou on the training pitch
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Michalis Sofroniou, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ermis
Markus Naglestad 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Ermis, another week without a signature from Zacharias Adoni.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Labros Ioannou's contract
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market10 Aug 2026
At 34, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ermis bring in an old head
Matej Kochan is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Leontios Kalaitzis commits to Ermis for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ermis
Leontios Kalaitzis 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
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Andreas Zachariou, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.