From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Pavlos Karvounis damages knee ligaments — 49 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 49 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
8 matches without a win for Egaleo
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Egaleo are no longer polite ones.
Match31 Oct 2026
Egaleo cannot find the net
4 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tobi Alagbe 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 Egaleo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
166% of the income goes out in wages at Egaleo
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Maxime Pélican 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Egaleo will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
56 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Egaleo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match24 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Egaleo's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Egaleo has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Egaleo
Tobi Alagbe 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Egaleo
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Egaleo can tell you which week it ends in.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Nick Perc
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Egaleo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Félix Nzouango Bikien 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Vasileios Torosidis after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout26 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.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
Pavlos Karvounis damages knee ligaments — 63 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 63 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Egaleo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match19 Oct 2026
Egaleo are in real trouble now
Position 8, 6 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Egaleo's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Egaleo has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 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 Egaleo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Egaleo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tobi Alagbe was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match17 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Egaleo against Kalamata
0‑2 to Kalamata, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tobi Alagbe, and the manager let it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Nick Perc
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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The dugout
Zean Dalügge asks for a word with the manager
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Player ratings
Lucas Gaona leaves them behind him
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
71 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Egaleo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Egaleo
Tobi Alagbe and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Egaleo told Christos Belevonis something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Egaleo
18 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Egaleo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maxime Pélican was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
The leaders are next for Egaleo
Kalamata top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
Pavlos Karvounis damages knee ligaments — 79 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 79 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
A hiding for Egaleo
Beaten 0‑3 by Chania, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Match3 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for Egaleo
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Egaleo are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“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 Egaleo know it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tobi Alagbe 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 Egaleo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 216% of everything Egaleo 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
Zean Dalügge 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Egaleo 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
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 0‑3 Vasileios Torosidis left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
4 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
86 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Egaleo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match23 Sep 2026
Egaleo out of the cup
PAS Giannina ended it 1‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Nick Perc
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Egaleo's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Egaleo has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Egaleo
Aleksandr Šapovalov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Egaleo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tobi Alagbe 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 terraces28 Sep 2026
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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aleksandr Šapovalov, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Pavlos Karvounis damages knee ligaments — 95 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 95 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nick Perc beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Egaleo
Tobi Alagbe 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hugo Constant, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Egaleo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maxime Pélican 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 7.40. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Match19 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Vasileios Torosidis after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nikos Grammatikakis trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Pavlos Karvounis
102 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Egaleo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market14 Sep 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 Egaleo can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Egaleo
Tobi Alagbe and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
18 new faces, and Egaleo 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Egaleo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Shlimon 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 dugout14 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout14 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.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Pavlos Karvounis
110 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Egaleo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
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 Egaleo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 20 signed and 3 gone
That is the business done at Egaleo 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The Egaleo board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Squad7 Sep 2026
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tobi Alagbe 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 Egaleo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Lucas Gaona
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Lucas Gaona 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. Egaleo know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
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Triumph
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Pavlos Karvounis
117 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Egaleo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Egaleo
Aleksandr Šapovalov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Egaleo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tobi Alagbe was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AEK have kept their man, and Egaleo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Aleksandr Šapovalov 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Aleksandr Šapovalov. 1‑0 against Ilioupoli, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.52 on the card, and the Egaleo support went home talking about one name.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Pavlos Karvounis
125 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Egaleo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
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 Egaleo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The deal with Temperley 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Egaleo
Tobi Alagbe 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Egaleo asked and Volos NPS said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Egaleo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Odysseas Spyridis 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
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Egaleo know which stage they are at.
Market24 Aug 2026
Angelos Zioulis is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Egaleo has been clear about where Angelos Zioulis stands, which is more than many ever get.
Looking ahead24 Aug 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Ilioupoli in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Egaleo
Tobi Alagbe and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Egaleo asked and Gimnasia y Esgrima said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Bryan Nouvier 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. Egaleo know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Egaleo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Odysseas Spyridis 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 targets17 Aug 2026
A loan move for Lucas Gaona is in the works
Egaleo have made the call to Temperley. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Egaleo has been clear about where Dimitris Oungialidis stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Egaleo would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
Market17 Aug 2026
It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Bryan Nouvier is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Egaleo have done the hard part with OFI, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Egaleo had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Panetolikos, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tobi Alagbe commits to Egaleo for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Egaleo
Zean Dalügge 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Egaleo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tobi Alagbe was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Egaleo asked and Olympiacos said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nikos Torosidis 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michalis Manolas 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andreas Vlachodimos 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.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tobi Alagbe and Egaleo agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Egaleo
Zean Dalügge and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Egaleo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tobi Alagbe 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 targets3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tobi Alagbe 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. Egaleo know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market3 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Nick Perc
Still no offer on the table, and Nick Perc’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Giannis Satsias is in the works
Egaleo have made the call to Panetolikos. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Egaleo have made the call to Volos NPS. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.