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Upbeat
Market7 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 Kalamata can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 18 in, 3 out at Kalamata
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 18 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Crvena Zvezda is saying, and nobody at Kalamata is enjoying the guessing.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Gonzalo Piñeiro 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
A row about effort at Kalamata
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tito was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 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 Kalamata know which stage they are at.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Kalamata take on the side everybody is chasing
Panionios arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
Market7 Sep 2026
At 36, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
Market7 Sep 2026
Kalamata bring in an old head
André Santos is 37 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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Triumph
Market31 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 The request is on a desk at Kalamata, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
Kalamata say no — this time
The offer from PAOK for Ahmad Mendes Moreira was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
No thanks: Mahmudu Bajo rejects the move
Kalamata had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Crvena Zvezda, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Kalamata asked and PAOK said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jovanny Bolívar 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Federico Jourdan. 1‑0 against Athens Kallithea, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A mark of 7.74, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Kalamata have made the call to AEK. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
Juan Cataldi 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 Kalamata can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Cukaricki is saying, and nobody at Kalamata is enjoying the guessing.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Kalamata
Gonzalo Piñeiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Kalamata asked and Lanús 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
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mouhamed Mbaye and Kalamata agree another 4 years.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Kalamata training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Czornomaz 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.
Looking ahead24 Aug 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Athens Kallithea in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market24 Aug 2026
Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Kalamata have gone and got theirs early.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: AEK keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Kalamata
Gonzalo Piñeiro 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 targets17 Aug 2026
Kalamata asked and Panathinaikos 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
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Kalamata have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tito 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Kalamata
6 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tito 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. Kalamata know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Kalamata people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Nestos Chrysoupoli had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Kalamata had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at AEK, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
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 Kalamata this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Kalamata have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kostas Tsadjaris is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
Kalamata say no — this time
The offer from Ypsonas for Carmelo Algarañaz was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Maximiliano Moreira commits to Kalamata for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Gonzalo Piñeiro 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Levadiakos have kept their man, and Kalamata go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Kalamata have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Cukaricki: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Olympiacos 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Kalamata training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Czornomaz 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.