13 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process
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

Back issues
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