From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 Aug 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 The request is on a desk at Apollon, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ethnikos Achnas have kept their man, and Apollon go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Looking ahead24 Aug 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Evangelos Andreou’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Apollon needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Emanuel Aiwu keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Apollon say nothing, which says plenty.
Market24 Aug 2026
The talk of Pedro Marques going back to Sanjoanense has reached the stage where nobody remembers who started it. That is usually the stage where somebody makes a phone call.
Market24 Aug 2026
Mateo Pérez runs his contract down
4 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Apollon money.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Digenis Morfou waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Apollon is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Apollon asked and Slovacko said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Apollon, another week without a signature from Willian Lira.
Market17 Aug 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Lazar Marković signs something — a contract at Apollon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mateo Pérez is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Mateo Pérez
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mateo Pérez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Apollon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market10 Aug 2026
Hércules come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Apollon did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Mateo Pérez has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Apollon
Willian Lira and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: PAEEK have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Zacharias Adoni. The answer from Apollon has not changed — yet.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dimitris Papoulis 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan move for Alan Marinelli is in the works
Apollon have made the call to Slovacko. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Emanuel Aiwu 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 Apollon, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lazar Marković commits to Apollon for another 3 years.
Market3 Aug 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Apollon can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Apollon
Mateo Pérez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Connor Goldson’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Garry Rodrigues stands down from international duty
“62 caps is more than I ever expected, and it is time somebody else had them.” At 35 he is finished with his country and nowhere near finished with Apollon.