The APOEL Courier
Squad28 Sep 2026
Franz Brorsson breaks a bone — 126 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 126 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Pieros Sotiriou, 33, rolls back the years — 8.20
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.20 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at APOEL
Marquinhos 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Max Meyer the difference as APOEL beat Anorthosis
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Max Meyer. 3‑1 against Anorthosis, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of José Martínez
“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.
Market28 Sep 2026
Diego Rosa wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Max Meyer at his very best
Marked 8.51. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at APOEL.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Iván Santillán 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Peter Olayinka was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.10. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Match Max Meyer answers Anorthosis immediately
- Player ratings Dálcio gives it away
- Market The shop window has Nanu in it