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Steady
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Age has not caught Emil Bergström yet — 9.55
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.55 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Anorthosis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Anorthosis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jacob Karlstrøm is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match10 Oct 2026
Agia Napa made Anorthosis work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.52, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Clifford Aboagye's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
5 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
Clifford Aboagye 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Jacob Karlstrøm 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Miguel Trauco, and the manager let it.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
125% of the income goes out in wages at Anorthosis
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and Anorthosis 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.
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Steady
Match23 Sep 2026
AE Kition are out and Anorthosis go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Anorthosis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Clifford Aboagye 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
1‑3 to APOEL, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 9.20 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Stijn Middendorp 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Kiko
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kiko, and the manager let it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.71, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Clifford Aboagye 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Stijn Middendorp is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jacob Karlstrøm falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Aris came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
12 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
5.65 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
Market21 Sep 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Fanos Katelaris may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Crisis
The terraces14 Sep 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 34 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Anorthosis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Anorthosis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jacob Karlstrøm is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Nea Salamis, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kiko dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
An afternoon Stefan Vukić will want back
Marked 4.12. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
Market14 Sep 2026
The Stefan Vukić story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Stefan Vukić signs something — a contract at Anorthosis or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Emil Bergström, 33, rolls back the years — 8.97
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.97 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Anorthosis, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Anorthosis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Clifford Aboagye 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Three points for Anorthosis, 2‑1 the final word against Paralimni in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Roberto Riascos 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rafael Lopes, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad7 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Market7 Sep 2026
Anorthosis bring in an old head
Testinha 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.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Anorthosis did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Anorthosis can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Anorthosis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market31 Aug 2026
Omonoia pay $160.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Anorthosis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jacob Karlstrøm 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Jacob Karlstrøm
“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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ioannis Ioannou is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
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Squad
Kiko dropped after a run of poor form
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Match
Honours even between Anorthosis and Ermis
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Boardroom
No investment in the facilities at Anorthosis
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
Roman Bezus 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 Anorthosis can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Clifford Aboagye 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Dimitris Dimitriou from AE Kition for $290.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jacob Karlstrøm 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Miguel Trauco has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Anorthosis know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Anorthosis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Anorthosis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jacob Karlstrøm 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The Stefan Vukić story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Stefan Vukić signs something — a contract at Anorthosis or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Paralimni come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Anorthosis did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kostakis Artymatas and Anorthosis agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Anorthosis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Anorthosis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jacob Karlstrøm 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Anorthosis, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Clifford Aboagye commits to Anorthosis for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Clifford Aboagye 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Jacob Karlstrøm 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Roman Bezus again, and this time the name on the line is Paralimni. Anorthosis are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market3 Aug 2026
Anorthosis and Kiko 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Jacob Karlstrøm’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.