29 Aug 2027
Sunday
Process
56 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Onisiforos Rousias out for 37 days

37 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Agia Napa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

A fracture rules Laurens Vermijl out for 56 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Agia Napa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Agia Napa

Position 12 and 13 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Marios Peratikos puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Agia Napa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Giorgos Naoum rejects the move

Agia Napa had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at AE Kition, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Kostas Volakis is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.

Squad

Alexandros Parras has improved at 29, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Transfer targets

Agia Napa rebuffed over Itai Zafrani

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Paralimni have kept their man, and Agia Napa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Donaldo Açka is in the works

Agia Napa have made the call to Apollon. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

Back issues
55 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Onisiforos Rousias

45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Agia Napa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Laurens Vermijl breaks a bone — 64 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 64 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Real improvement from Stijn Middendorp at Agia Napa

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Stijn Middendorp is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Late improvement for Serif Berbic

At 25 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Transfer targets

AEL tell Agia Napa: Pieros Soteriou is not for sale

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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Giorgos Naoum is in the works

Agia Napa have made the call to AE Kition. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

54 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Laurens Vermijl breaks a bone — 72 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 72 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Transfer targets

Mateusz Musiałowski due for a Agia Napa medical

Everything agreed with Omonoia, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Agia Napa lose Andreas Kyriakou

17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Marios Peratikos 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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Bruno Silva 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 dugout

Dimitris Kolovetsios knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dimitris Kolovetsios trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

53 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Laurens Vermijl breaks a bone — 79 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 79 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The terraces

The mood at Agia Napa has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Agia Napa

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Transfer targets

Davor Zdravkovski’s move to Agia Napa collapses on the table

Fee agreed, terms agreed, and a scan that said otherwise. He goes back to AEL; Agia Napa go back to the market; and both will insist there is no story here.

Squad

A falling-out at Agia Napa

Laurens Vermijl and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dimitris Kolovetsios 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.

Squad

Antonis Koumis stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Antonis Koumis and Agia Napa agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Agia Napa and Dimitris Kolovetsios are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout

Dimitris Kolovetsios 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 Agia Napa, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

52 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

86 days out for Laurens Vermijl after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Agia Napa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Agia Napa

Position 12 and 13 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Marios Peratikos puts it in writing

“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 Agia Napa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Tamás Kiss

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Agia Napa have done the hard part with Anorthosis, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

Igal Bekker will not be coming to Agia Napa

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at APOEL is saying, and nobody at Agia Napa is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Words exchanged at Agia Napa

Marios Peratikos 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.

Squad

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Silva 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.

Squad

Veljko Grujic signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Veljko Grujic and Agia Napa agree another 3 years.

Transfer targets

Agia Napa rebuffed over Michalis Theodosiou

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Pafos have kept their man, and Agia Napa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

51 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Laurens Vermijl breaks a bone — 94 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 94 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Transfer targets

Morgan Brown is a medical away from Agia Napa

The deal with Apollon is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Bruno Silva 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Itai Zafrani

Agia Napa asked and Paralimni said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words exchanged at Agia Napa

Theodosis Siathas 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.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Modestos Sotiriou

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Agia Napa told Modestos Sotiriou something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

50 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Laurens Vermijl breaks a bone — 101 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 101 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Transfer targets

Donaldo Açka is a medical away from Agia Napa

The deal with Apollon is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Marios Peratikos 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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Agia Napa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dimitris Kolovetsios was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Agia Napa rebuffed over Stijn Keller

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Omonoia have kept their man, and Agia Napa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Agia Napa are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

In brief

49 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

108 days out for Laurens Vermijl after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Agia Napa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The terraces

Anger at Agia Napa spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market

Bruno Silva 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 Agia Napa can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Konstantinos Petrou says Agia Napa went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Agia Napa

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Agia Napa is running low.

Squad

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Silva 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 targets

Door shut on Gabriel Furtado

Agia Napa asked and Anorthosis said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Bruno Silva

“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.

Squad

Jad Shibli signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jad Shibli commits to Agia Napa for another 3 years.

In brief

48 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Laurens Vermijl breaks a bone — 115 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 115 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Agia Napa sink to position 12

13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Marios Peratikos 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 Agia Napa can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Kostas Volakis is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Agia Napa

Dimitris Kolovetsios 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.

Squad

Late improvement for Alexandros Parras

At 29 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Transfer targets

APOEL tell Agia Napa: Panagiotis Kyriakou is not for sale

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.

Transfer targets

Agia Napa ask about Gabriel Furtado

A loan enquiry to Anorthosis: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

Agia Napa try to borrow Youssef Amyn

AE Kition have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

47 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

122 days out for Laurens Vermijl after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Agia Napa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Antonis Tsiaras asks to leave Agia Napa

“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.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Alex Opoku Sarfo

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Agia Napa have done the hard part with Aris, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

A falling-out at Agia Napa

Marios Peratikos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Laurens Vermijl 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 targets

Door shut on Itai Zafrani

Agia Napa asked and Paralimni said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

No hiding place for Serif Berbic

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Serif Berbic, and the manager let it.

Transfer targets

Agia Napa try to borrow Gabriel Maioli

APOEL have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Market

The shop window has Bruno Silva in it

Agia Napa have let the market know Bruno Silva can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

46 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Modestos Sotiriou out for 124 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Agia Napa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Theodosis Siathas asks to leave Agia Napa

“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.

Transfer targets

Gabriel Maioli is a medical away from Agia Napa

The deal with APOEL is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Real improvement from Stijn Middendorp at Agia Napa

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Stijn Middendorp is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Words exchanged at Agia Napa

Serif Berbic 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.

Squad

A late step up for Serif Berbic

At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Transfer targets

Agia Napa rebuffed over Stijn Keller

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Omonoia have kept their man, and Agia Napa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets

Agia Napa ask about Fortune Bassey

A loan enquiry to Anorthosis: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market

Agia Napa sign Pieros Elia, one for the future

Pieros Elia is 15, and Agia Napa have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

45 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Modestos Sotiriou breaks a bone — 131 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 131 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The terraces

The mood at Agia Napa has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Market

Omonoia come back empty-handed

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

Market

Konstantinos Petrou asks to leave Agia Napa

“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.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Agia Napa boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Davor Zdravkovski

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Agia Napa have done the hard part with AEL, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Tempers go at Agia Napa

Marios Peratikos 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.

Squad

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandros Parras 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.

Market

Bruno Silva is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Agia Napa has been clear about where Bruno Silva stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

44 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

139 days out for Modestos Sotiriou after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Agia Napa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Agia Napa sink to position 12

13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Marios Peratikos 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 Agia Napa can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Laurens Vermijl 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Agia Napa

Theodosis Siathas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

One of our own: Dimitris Laifis joins the Agia Napa first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dimitris Laifis is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

Jorge Pereira signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jorge Pereira commits to Agia Napa for another 3 years.

The dugout

Onisiforos Rousias 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 Agia Napa, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

Georgios Kyriakou 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.

In brief

43 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Agia Napa

Marios Peratikos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Agia Napa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Laurens Vermijl was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Theodosis Siathas

“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.

Market

Agia Napa sign Veljko Grujic, one for the future

Veljko Grujic is 14, and Agia Napa have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad

Veljko Grujic stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Veljko Grujic and Agia Napa agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

A door opens for Konstantinos Petrou

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

42 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Bruno Silva 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 dugout

Bruno Silva 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.

The dugout

Francis Uzoho has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Agia Napa 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

41 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Laurens Vermijl 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 dugout

Bruno Silva 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 Agia Napa, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Alexandros Parras question follows Agia Napa around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Alexandros Parras’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

40 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Agia Napa sink to position 12

13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Marios Peratikos 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 Agia Napa can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at Agia Napa

Francis Uzoho 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Agia Napa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Laurens Vermijl was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Agia Napa and Bruno Silva are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout

The manager makes Konstantinos Petrou a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Agia Napa. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

39 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Agia Napa

Francis Uzoho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Alexandros Parras 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Onisiforos Rousias

“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.

In brief

38 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Agia Napa

Francis Uzoho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Laurens Vermijl 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.

Market

Antonis Tsiaras is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Agia Napa has been clear about where Antonis Tsiaras stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Theodosis Siathas

“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 dugout

Francis Uzoho has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Agia Napa 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.

The dugout

Antonis Tsiaras 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 Agia Napa, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

37 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A row about effort at Agia Napa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Laurens Vermijl was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A falling-out at Agia Napa

Theodosis Siathas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Antonis Tsiaras 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 Agia Napa, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Alexandros Parras talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Agia Napa know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Nerves in the Agia Napa squad

Marios Peratikos has been around long enough to know what the spring feels like when it goes wrong, and he can feel it. A dressing room that is frightened plays like one.

The dugout

A door opens for Konstantinos Petrou

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

36 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Agia Napa sink to position 12

13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Marios Peratikos puts it in writing

“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 Agia Napa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Agia Napa

Marios Peratikos 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.

Squad

Bruno Silva 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 dugout

Onisiforos Rousias asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

Modestos Sotiriou is not saying it is over

“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 34 with 294 appearances behind him, and Agia Napa have to plan for both answers.

In brief

35 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Laurens Vermijl 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Bruno Silva

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bruno Silva, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Onisiforos Rousias asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

34 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Laurens Vermijl 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.

The dugout

When it matters, Francis Uzoho plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Bruno Silva 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 Agia Napa, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

33 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Modestos Sotiriou puts it in writing

“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 Agia Napa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Agia Napa

Francis Uzoho 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.

Squad

Bruno Silva 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.

In brief

32 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Agia Napa sink to position 12

13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Marios Peratikos puts it in writing

“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 Agia Napa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Laurens Vermijl signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Laurens Vermijl and Agia Napa agree another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Agia Napa

Francis Uzoho 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Agia Napa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Laurens Vermijl was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Jason Stylianou steps up from the Agia Napa academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jason Stylianou has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Antonis Pittas steps up from the Agia Napa academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Antonis Pittas has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

The dugout

No hiding place for Onisiforos Rousias

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Onisiforos Rousias, and the manager let it.

Market

Agia Napa and Dimitris Kolovetsios are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

31 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Francis Uzoho

21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Agia Napa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Francis Uzoho 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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Bruno Silva wants one last season at home

Every long career reaches the week the last one is thought about. He would like it to be where he started, and Agia Napa know now that the thought has arrived.

Squad

A row about effort at Agia Napa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bruno Silva was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Omer Korsia

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Omer Korsia, and the manager let it.

Market

Still no ink between Agia Napa and Bruno Silva

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Agia Napa, another week without a signature from Bruno Silva.

In brief

30 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Francis Uzoho damages knee ligaments — 28 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Serif Berbic stands alone

10 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match

Agia Napa finish in position 12

13 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Squad

Tempers go at Agia Napa

Laurens Vermijl 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Agia Napa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bruno Silva was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Marios Peratikos

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marios Peratikos, and the manager let it.

Match

Agia Napa rescue it on 90 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 90. APOEL had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

The dugout

No place for Theodosis Siathas on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Agia Napa pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Match

Laurens Vermijl rescues a point for Agia Napa

It needed Laurens Vermijl to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against APOEL, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

29 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Francis Uzoho damages knee ligaments — 35 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 35 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Serif Berbic stands alone

8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad

Words exchanged at Agia Napa

Marios Peratikos 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.

Squad

Laurens Vermijl 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.

Match

Agia Napa come up short against Aris

Aris left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

No hiding place for Konstantinos Petrou

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Konstantinos Petrou, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Michalis Kyriakou answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Andreas Kyriakou left out for tactical reasons at Agia Napa

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.

Looking ahead

Francis Uzoho faces his old club

APOEL next, and one man in the Agia Napa dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief

28 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Francis Uzoho out for 43 days

43 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Agia Napa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Agia Napa are in real trouble now

Position 13, 12 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

Konstantinos Petrou stands alone

9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad

A falling-out at Agia Napa

Laurens Vermijl and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Omer Korsia wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Agia Napa know it.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Stijn Middendorp

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

Stijn Middendorp was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.15. 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.

The dugout

No place for Dimitris Kolovetsios on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Agia Napa pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Match

Nea Salamis snatch it back from Agia Napa

A goal on 97 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

In brief

27 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Francis Uzoho

50 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Agia Napa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Marios Peratikos asks to leave Agia Napa

“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.

The dugout

Konstantinos Petrou keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Agia Napa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Both of them Asdrúbal's — 8.62

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.62, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

At last: Agia Napa win one

11 matches without a win, and then this, against Paralimni. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Boardroom

Agia Napa close the window on a squad of their own making

2 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets

João Correia due for a Agia Napa medical

Everything agreed with Pafos, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Words exchanged at Agia Napa

Laurens Vermijl 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.

Squad

Bruno Silva 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.

In brief

26 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Francis Uzoho damages knee ligaments — 59 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 59 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

The wait goes on for Agia Napa

11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Transfer targets

Gabriel Maioli is a medical away from Agia Napa

The deal with APOEL is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

A falling-out at Agia Napa

Francis Uzoho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Lefteris Alabritis runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A row about effort at Agia Napa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Laurens Vermijl was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Ermis take the points off Agia Napa

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Andreas Kyriakou 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.

The dugout

No place for Onisiforos Rousias on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Agia Napa pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

In brief

25 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Francis Uzoho damages knee ligaments — 68 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 68 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

10 matches without a win for Agia Napa

The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Agia Napa are no longer polite ones.

Market

Bruno Silva puts it in writing

“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 Agia Napa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Mateo Pérez

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Agia Napa have done the hard part with Apollon, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Gabriel Maioli

Agia Napa asked and APOEL said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words exchanged at Agia Napa

Francis Uzoho 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.

Squad

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Laurens Vermijl 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.

Match

Agia Napa come up short against Pafos

Pafos left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Looking ahead

Everything rides on Ermis

Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. Agia Napa know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.

In brief

24 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Francis Uzoho out for 75 days

75 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Agia Napa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Agia Napa sink to position 13

8 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match

9 matches without a win for Agia Napa

The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Agia Napa are no longer polite ones.

Market

Modestos Sotiriou 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 Agia Napa can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Chabos Kyriakou due for a Agia Napa medical

Everything agreed with AE Kition, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Tempers go at Agia Napa

Francis Uzoho 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

Agia Napa come up short against Anorthosis

Anorthosis left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A row about effort at Agia Napa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bruno Silva was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

One of our own: Georgios Demetriou joins the Agia Napa first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Georgios Demetriou is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

23 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Francis Uzoho

82 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Agia Napa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A fracture rules Onisiforos Rousias out for 14 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Agia Napa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

A hiding for Agia Napa

Beaten 0‑6 by Apollon, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market

Marios Peratikos asks to leave Agia Napa

“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.

Match

The wait goes on for Agia Napa

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

The terraces

A frightened ground at Agia Napa

Position 13, 8 points, and a crowd that arrives braced. Seasons are lost in exactly this atmosphere and everybody who has lived through one knows the sound of it.

Transfer targets

Tamás Kiss due for a Agia Napa medical

Everything agreed with Anorthosis, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Match

6 goals as Agia Napa and Apollon go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Agia Napa and Apollon, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

Laurens Vermijl 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.

In brief

22 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Francis Uzoho damages knee ligaments — 89 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 89 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Onisiforos Rousias breaks a bone — 22 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

7 matches without a win for Agia Napa

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Agia Napa are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A falling-out at Agia Napa

Marios Peratikos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Silva 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.

Match

Agia Napa refuse to lose to Ethnikos Achnas

A point taken on 88 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Boardroom

111% of the income goes out in wages at Agia Napa

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

The dugout

Asdrúbal is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Player ratings

Asdrúbal's mistake decides it

Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Agia Napa needed to.

In brief

21 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Francis Uzoho damages knee ligaments — 96 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 96 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

30 days out for Onisiforos Rousias after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Agia Napa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Agia Napa taken apart

0‑7 to Omonoia, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Bruno Silva 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 Agia Napa can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

8 saves: Serif Berbic was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

6 matches without a win for Agia Napa

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Agia Napa are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Home is on Bruno Silva's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Agia Napa are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Match

The goals have deserted Agia Napa

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Agia Napa can tell you which week it ends in.

Match

7 goals as Agia Napa and Omonoia go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Agia Napa and Omonoia, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

In brief

20 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Francis Uzoho

105 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Agia Napa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Onisiforos Rousias breaks a bone — 37 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 37 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Agia Napa sink to position 13

7 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match

The wait goes on for Agia Napa

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

Agia Napa cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Laurens Vermijl 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.

Market

Kostakis Kolias steps up from the Agia Napa academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kostakis Kolias has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Agia Napa promote Pieros Merkis from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pieros Merkis has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Match

A bad afternoon for Agia Napa against Doxa

0‑1 to Doxa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

19 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Francis Uzoho

112 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Agia Napa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A fracture rules Onisiforos Rousias out for 44 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Agia Napa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Serif Berbic

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

4 matches without a win for Agia Napa

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Agia Napa are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Francis Uzoho 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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

AE Kition take the points off Agia Napa

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Looking ahead

Everything rides on Doxa

Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. Agia Napa know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.

The dugout

No hiding place for Theodosis Siathas

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Theodosis Siathas, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Michalis Kyriakou faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Michalis Kyriakou after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief

18 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Francis Uzoho damages knee ligaments — 119 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 119 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

A fracture rules Onisiforos Rousias out for 51 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Agia Napa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Agia Napa

0‑5 against AEL, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Serif Berbic

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

A falling-out at Agia Napa

Francis Uzoho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

No hiding place for Dimitris Kolovetsios

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dimitris Kolovetsios, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Agia Napa

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

Boardroom

Wages eat 98% of everything Agia Napa earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

The dugout

Michalis Kyriakou answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑5, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief

17 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Francis Uzoho out for 126 days

126 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Agia Napa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Onisiforos Rousias breaks a bone — 59 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 59 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Serif Berbic stands alone

9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market

Marios Peratikos puts it in writing

“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 Agia Napa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Laurens Vermijl has a hand in both — 7.99

One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.99, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.

Squad

Words exchanged at Agia Napa

Francis Uzoho 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.

Match

Laurens Vermijl’s goal not enough for Agia Napa

Laurens Vermijl scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to APOEL, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Serif Berbic

“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.

Match

Agia Napa at the halfway mark

Half the programme played, position 12, 7 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.

In brief

16 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Francis Uzoho

133 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Agia Napa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

67 days out for Onisiforos Rousias after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Agia Napa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Chastening afternoon for Agia Napa

A 0‑4 beating by Aris was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Match

Agia Napa sink to position 12

7 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad

A falling-out at Agia Napa

Laurens Vermijl and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Bruno Silva 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 dugout

Laurens Vermijl 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 Agia Napa

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

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑4 Michalis Kyriakou left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

15 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

74 days out for Onisiforos Rousias after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Agia Napa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Francis Uzoho keeps Agia Napa in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Asdrúbal, 35, rolls back the years — 8.29

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.29 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Marios Peratikos 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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Bruno Silva 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.

Match

Agia Napa find a way past Nea Salamis

Nea Salamis made Agia Napa work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Market

Agia Napa promote Kostakis Stylianou from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kostakis Stylianou has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Nikos Antoniou joins the Agia Napa first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nikos Antoniou is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Player ratings

Laurens Vermijl was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.12. 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

14 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Onisiforos Rousias breaks a bone — 81 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 81 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Marco Vanzini: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Agia Napa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

A bad afternoon for Agia Napa against Paralimni

1‑3 to Paralimni, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Laurens Vermijl 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Bruno Silva

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bruno Silva, and the manager let it.

Market

Still no ink between Agia Napa and Bruno Silva

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Agia Napa, another week without a signature from Bruno Silva.

Boardroom

Wages eat 98% of everything Agia Napa earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑3 Michalis Kyriakou left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad

Panagiotis Ilia makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

In brief

13 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Onisiforos Rousias out for 88 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Agia Napa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Marios Peratikos 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 Agia Napa can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Mathías González, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.71

A mark of 7.71 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Match

Agia Napa end the wait against Ermis

It had gone 9 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Squad

Home is on Bruno Silva's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Agia Napa are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Laurens Vermijl 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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Agia Napa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bruno Silva was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

Agia Napa supporters have found a favourite in Mathías González

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Mathías González has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Agia Napa get the job done against Ermis

A 2‑0 win over Ermis, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

12 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Onisiforos Rousias out for 95 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Agia Napa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

No end in sight to Agia Napa's wait for a win

9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Agia Napa has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Agia Napa

Position 13 and 1 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad

Francis Uzoho keeps Agia Napa in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Tempers go at Agia Napa

Francis Uzoho 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

The goals have deserted Agia Napa

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Agia Napa can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Bruno Silva 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.

Match

Agia Napa are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Match

Agia Napa come up short against Pafos

Pafos left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

11 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

102 days out for Onisiforos Rousias after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Agia Napa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

The wait goes on for Agia Napa

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Francis Uzoho 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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Agia Napa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Laurens Vermijl was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Agia Napa come up short against Anorthosis

Anorthosis left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Stelios Ioannou steps up from the Agia Napa academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stelios Ioannou has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

The dugout

Theodosis Siathas 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.

The dugout

Agia Napa keep their word to Francis Uzoho

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Agia Napa

10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

10 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Onisiforos Rousias breaks a bone — 110 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 110 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Chastening afternoon for Agia Napa

A 0‑3 beating by Apollon was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad

Francis Uzoho keeps Agia Napa in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

The wait goes on for Agia Napa

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

A falling-out at Agia Napa

Francis Uzoho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Laurens Vermijl 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alexandros Parras

“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.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 117% of the Agia Napa income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Agia Napa dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief

9 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

117 days out for Onisiforos Rousias after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Agia Napa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Agia Napa out of the cup

Apollon ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market

Marios Peratikos puts it in writing

“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 Agia Napa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Francis Uzoho keeps Agia Napa in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

The wait goes on for Agia Napa

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Alexandros Parras

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Laurens Vermijl 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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Bruno Silva 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Agia Napa against Ethnikos Achnas

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

In brief

8 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

124 days out for Onisiforos Rousias after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Agia Napa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Francis Uzoho stands alone

11 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match

Agia Napa taken apart

0‑4 to Omonoia, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match

4 matches without a win for Agia Napa

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Agia Napa are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Agia Napa

Marios Peratikos 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Agia Napa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Laurens Vermijl was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Agia Napa are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Konstantinos Petrou

“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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Agia Napa dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief

7 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

131 days out for Onisiforos Rousias after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Agia Napa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Lefteris Alabritis beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Words exchanged at Agia Napa

Laurens Vermijl 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Agia Napa against Doxa

1‑3 to Doxa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Bruno Silva 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Donaldo Açka

Agia Napa asked and Apollon said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Agia Napa promote Christos Demetriou from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Christos Demetriou has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Andreas Elia joins the Agia Napa first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andreas Elia is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Serif Berbic

“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.

In brief

6 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Onisiforos Rousias breaks a bone — 138 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 138 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

A hiding for Agia Napa

Beaten 0‑5 by AE Kition, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 24 signed and 0 gone

That is the business done at Agia Napa until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad

Tempers go at Agia Napa

Laurens Vermijl 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.

Squad

Bruno Silva 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 dugout

No hiding place for Omer Korsia

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Omer Korsia, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Agia Napa

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

Market

Talks stall between Agia Napa and Bruno Silva

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout

Michalis Kyriakou: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑5, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

5 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

42 days out for Andreas Kyriakou after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Agia Napa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

A brace, and Mathías González takes the afternoon — 8.31

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mathías González provided it, and the 8.31 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Modestos Sotiriou 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 Agia Napa can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Giorgos Naoum turns down Agia Napa

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: AE Kition keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Words exchanged at Agia Napa

Marios Peratikos 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Agia Napa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Laurens Vermijl was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Agia Napa rebuffed over Michalis Theodosiou

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Aris have kept their man, and Agia Napa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The terraces

One of their own: Mathías González

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

The dugout

No hiding place for Bruno Silva

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bruno Silva, and the manager let it.

In brief

4 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Agia Napa

Dimitris Kolovetsios 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Agia Napa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Laurens Vermijl was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Agia Napa rebuffed over Edi Semedo

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Aris have kept their man, and Agia Napa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Bruno Silva already looking beyond Agia Napa

He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.

Squad

The formation has left Laurens Vermijl behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Agia Napa will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Squad

10 new faces, and Agia Napa are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Transfer targets

Agia Napa ask about Mateusz Musiałowski

A loan enquiry to Omonoia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market

Agia Napa bring in an old head

Bruno Silva 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.

Looking ahead

Andreas Kyriakou goes back to face AEL

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Andreas Kyriakou’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Agia Napa needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

3 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Alexandros Parras gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Alexandros Parras has just signed for Agia Napa, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

Stijn Middendorp is a medical away from Agia Napa

The deal with Anorthosis is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Marios Peratikos 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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Donaldo Açka

Agia Napa asked and Apollon said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Antonis Tsiaras 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

The formation has left Asdrúbal behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Agia Napa will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Transfer targets

Agia Napa ask about Dennis Bakke Gaustad

A loan enquiry to Aris: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market

Ilias Melkas told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ilias Melkas has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Agia Napa.

Market

Asdrúbal brings the grey hairs Agia Napa lacked

At 35, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

In brief

2 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

AE Kition tell Agia Napa: Giorgos Naoum is not for sale

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.

Squad

A falling-out at Agia Napa

Theodosis Siathas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Giorgos Konstantinou steps up from the Agia Napa academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Giorgos Konstantinou has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Georgios Kyriakou joins the Agia Napa first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Georgios Kyriakou is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Valentinos Laifis steps up from the Agia Napa academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Valentinos Laifis has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Valentinos Kolias steps up from the Agia Napa academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Valentinos Kolias has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief

1 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Marios Peratikos signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marios Peratikos and Agia Napa agree another 4 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Agia Napa

Marios Peratikos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Antonis Tsiaras 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.

Market

Still no ink between Agia Napa and Andreas Kyriakou

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Agia Napa, another week without a signature from Andreas Kyriakou.

Transfer targets

Agia Napa try to borrow Giorgos Naoum

AE Kition have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Agia Napa ask about Francis Uzoho

A loan enquiry to Omonoia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief