Mathías Tomás

Attacking Midfielder (R) - APOEL
19 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Mathías Tomás

7 Edition

The APOEL Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 29 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Market

Anorthosis come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and APOEL did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Konstantinos Laifis 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

Tempers go at APOEL

Max Meyer 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for APOEL against Ethnikos Achnas

1‑2 to Ethnikos Achnas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market

Nikolas Koutsakos attracts admirers

The name of Nikolas Koutsakos has come up in conversations APOEL were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Player ratings

One of those days for Mathías Tomás

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.09, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Dálcio 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.

Boardroom

Doors closed at APOEL

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The APOEL Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

APOEL turn it around against Omonoia

Going 2 down does something to a side, and what it usually does is finish them. Not here. APOEL rebuilt the afternoon goal by goal, and Omonoia had no answer to any of it.

Player ratings

Both of them Dimitris Diamantakos's — 8.34

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.34, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

APOEL turn down Omonoia for Nanu

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Boardroom

APOEL counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at APOEL now.

Squad

Marquinhos 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 APOEL this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Konstantinos Giannakou is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market

Dinamo Tbilisi join the queue for Yerson Chacón

Add another name to the list: Dinamo Tbilisi have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Yerson Chacón. The answer from APOEL has not changed — yet.

Match

Dimitris Diamantakos the difference as APOEL beat Omonoia

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dimitris Diamantakos. 3‑2 against Omonoia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Words at APOEL training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Konstantinos Laifis 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.

In brief