Anorthosis have gone to Pafos with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
The name of Kostakis Artymatas has come up in conversations Anorthosis were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Estudiantes is saying, and nobody at Anorthosis is enjoying the guessing.
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.
Thanasis Papadoudis was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $620.0K. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Apollon have kept their man, and Anorthosis go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
11 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.
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jacob Karlstrøm was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Anorthosis will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Bruno Paulo is 36 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.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Nemanja Milojević is living that version at Anorthosis, and it tends to show in the first month.
$550.0K on the table at Pafos. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Clifford Aboagye 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 offer went to Omonoia this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
“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
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.
Anorthosis asked and Lech 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 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ararat-Armenia have kept their man, and Anorthosis go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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.