Marked for Moisés Ramírez
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Dec 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kifisia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match5 Dec 2026
0‑2 to Olympiacos, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Kifisia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleks Petkov 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.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Konstantinos Nikolaou to a room that had heard them before.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Ché Nunnely knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Kifisia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Back issues
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Crisis
Market9 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tiago Manso 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Asteras left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Moisés Ramírez
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Aleks Petkov 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mathieu Oliveira and Kifisia agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Kifisia will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match17 Oct 2026
7 matches without a win for Kifisia
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Kifisia are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Kifisia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleks Petkov 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Konstantinos Apostolakis and Kifisia agree another 4 years.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Lazare Amani
“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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Level with 89 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Kifisia had all but put away. OFI will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Kifisia lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Match17 Oct 2026
Honours even between Kifisia and OFI
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Crisis
Match23 Sep 2026
The small margins put Kifisia out
Out, 1‑2 to PAOK, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match26 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Kifisia
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Kifisia are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Tiago Manso pops up at the right end — 7.92
7.92, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Kifisia
Lazare Amani 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Panetolikos left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Kifisia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aleks Petkov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
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Squad
9 new faces, and Kifisia are still learning each other
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The terraces
The spotlight tightens on Moisés Ramírez
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
The knee: Paulo Renê out for 20 days
20 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kifisia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market31 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Kifisia have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market31 Aug 2026
Kifisia say no — this time
The offer from Siah Jamegan for Moisés Ramírez was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kifisia can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Bruno Miño
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Kifisia have done the hard part with Almirante Brown, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market31 Aug 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Omonoia moved on, Giorgos Konstantakopoulos reports back to Kifisia, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match29 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Aris Thessaloniki, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.