22 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process
16 Edition

The Kifisia Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Every point is an argument now for Kifisia

Position 13 and 8 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Apostolis Christopoulos asks to leave Kifisia

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Kifisia

Jorge Pombo 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Kifisia

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Angelo Sagal was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Olympiacos take the points off Kifisia

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

No hiding place for David Simón

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to David Simón, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Spyridon Karelis faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Spyridon Karelis after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad

The formation has left Nélson Campali behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Kifisia will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Squad

Giannis Kousoulos called up by his country

A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Kifisia that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Kifisia Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Moisés Ramírez

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Jorge Pombo 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 Kifisia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Kifisia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Angelo Sagal 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.

Market

Kifisia promote Georgios Donis from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Georgios Donis 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.

Market

Eleftherios Galanopoulos steps up from the Kifisia academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Eleftherios Galanopoulos 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Kifisia against Panathinaikos

0‑1 to Panathinaikos, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Raúl Baena 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.

The dugout

Spyridon Karelis answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad

Nélson Campali signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nélson Campali commits to Kifisia for another 3 years.

In brief

14 Edition

The Kifisia Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Moisés Ramírez asks to leave Kifisia

“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.

Match

At last: Kifisia win one

7 matches without a win, and then this, against Panserraikos. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Squad

Tempers go at Kifisia

Angelo Sagal 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Kifisia

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dimitris Theodoridis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Jorge Pombo sends Kifisia past Panserraikos

It finished 2‑0, and it was Jorge Pombo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Kifisia.

Player ratings

Jorge Pombo in the eights

A performance of 8.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

Ché Nunnely 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.

Squad

Nélson Campali out for 42 days

The medical room confirms 42 days on the sidelines for Nélson Campali, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Spyridon Karelis kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief

13 Edition

The Kifisia Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Kifisia's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kifisia has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Words exchanged at Kifisia

Jorge Pombo 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.

Squad

Angelo Sagal 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 ratings

Jorge Pombo was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

Kifisia and Asteras take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

Spyridon Karelis on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Spyridon Karelis after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

Kifisia pick somebody else ahead of David Simón

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 dugout

Alexandros Anagnostopoulos 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.

The dugout

Ché Nunnely asks for a word with the manager

“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.

In brief

12 Edition

The Kifisia Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Every point is an argument now for Kifisia

Position 13 and 4 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Apostolis Christopoulos asks to leave Kifisia

“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.

Match

No end in sight to Kifisia's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kifisia has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at Kifisia

Jorge Pombo 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.

Squad

Nektarios Kaloskamis is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.

Match

Angelo Sagal’s goal not enough for Kifisia

Angelo Sagal scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Volos NPS, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout

Moisés Ramírez 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.

Squad

Imam Jagne 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.

The dugout

Spyridon Karelis: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

11 Edition

The Kifisia Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Jorge Pombo was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 30. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

The wait goes on for Kifisia

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Jorge Pombo 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 Kifisia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Kifisia

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dimitris Theodoridis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

The goals have deserted Kifisia

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Kifisia can tell you which week it ends in.

Market

Christos Kourbelis steps up from the Kifisia academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Christos Kourbelis 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.

Market

Kifisia promote Pavlos Tsadjaris from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pavlos Tsadjaris 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.

Match

AEL Larisa take the points off Kifisia

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Kifisia are still strangers to each other

11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

In brief

10 Edition

The Kifisia Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Moisés Ramírez puts it in writing

“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 Kifisia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

The wait goes on for Kifisia

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

A falling-out at Kifisia

Jorge Pombo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Angelo Sagal 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.

Squad

Late improvement for Apostolos Tsilingiris

At 26 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Squad

Giannis Doiranlis signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Giannis Doiranlis and Kifisia agree another 3 years.

Boardroom

95% of the income goes out in wages at Kifisia

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.

Player ratings

Yasser Larouci was the difference for Kifisia

Marked 7.26. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Gerson Sousa

“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.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Match No goals between Kifisia and OFI
  • The dugout When it matters, Gerson Sousa plays
9 Edition

The Kifisia Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Moisés Ramírez is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Moisés Ramírez: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match

The cup run ends for Kifisia

0‑3 against PAOK, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

The terraces

Kifisia are taken apart by PAOK — and the town wants answers

It finished 0-3. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.

Player ratings

Christos Ligdas, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.60

A mark of 7.60 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Rubén Pérez goes up and wins it — 7.68

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.68 for the rest of it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Kifisia

Jorge Pombo 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.

Player ratings

Jorge Pombo beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

No hiding place for Apostolis Christopoulos

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Apostolis Christopoulos, and the manager let it.

Match

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 127 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Kifisia had all but put away. PAOK will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

In brief

8 Edition

The Kifisia Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

7 saves: Moisés Ramírez was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings

Vintage Angelo Sagal — 7.91

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.91, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Tempers go at Kifisia

Jorge Pombo 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Kifisia against Panetolikos

1‑3 to Panetolikos, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Kifisia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dimitris Theodoridis 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 dugout

No hiding place for Moisés Ramírez

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Moisés Ramírez, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Spyridon Karelis answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

The form table has caught David Simón

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

The dugout

Ignacio Ten López asks for a word with the manager

“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.

In brief

7 Edition

The Kifisia Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Apostolis Christopoulos says no to Kudrivka

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Apostolis Christopoulos had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Player ratings

Both of them Angelo Sagal's — 8.71

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.71, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Moisés Ramírez

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

Jorge Pombo was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Angelo Sagal 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Kifisia

Raúl Baena 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.

Match

Kifisia see off Atromitos

Three points for Kifisia, 2‑0 the final word against Atromitos in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

Thanasis Kourbelis steps up from the Kifisia academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Thanasis Kourbelis 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.

Squad

Gerson Sousa stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Gerson Sousa and Kifisia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

  • The dugout No hiding place for Raúl Baena
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Player ratings Nothing got past David Simón
6 Edition

The Kifisia Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Moisés Ramírez puts it in writing

“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 Kifisia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Kifisia say no — this time

The offer from Nyva for Angelo Sagal 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.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 16 in, 6 out at Kifisia

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 6 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market

Kudrivka watching Apostolis Christopoulos

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Kifisia have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

A falling-out at Kifisia

Jorge Pombo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

AEK take the points off Kifisia

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Yasser Larouci is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Yasser Larouci has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Player ratings

Jorge Pombo beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Imam Jagne 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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Kifisia Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Moisés Ramírez keeps Kifisia in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Kifisia walk away from Pavlos Pantelidis

$1.9M was the most the club would pay and Panathinaikos were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Kifisia

Jorge Pombo 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.

Player ratings

Jorge Pombo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Kifisia come up short against Aris Thessaloniki

Aris Thessaloniki left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Words at Kifisia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dimitris Theodoridis 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Lazare Amani

“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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Kifisia

11 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.

The dugout

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 1‑3 Spyridon Karelis left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

4 Edition

The Kifisia Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Amine Messoussa turns GIF Sundsvall down

“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.

Market

Alberto Botía asks to leave Kifisia

“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.

Transfer targets

Salim Musah turns down Kifisia

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Werder Bremen keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Tempers go at Kifisia

Jorge Pombo 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.

Squad

Words at Kifisia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Angelo Sagal 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 targets

Juventus tell Kifisia: Arman Durmiši is not for sale

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.

Squad

Leonidas Pelkas stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Leonidas Pelkas and Kifisia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Alexandros Anagnostopoulos

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Aris Thessaloniki in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

The dugout

No hiding place for Leonidas Pelkas

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leonidas Pelkas, and the manager let it.

In brief

3 Edition

The Kifisia Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Kifisia say no — this time

The offer from OFK Beograd for Amine Messoussa 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.

Market

Jeremy Antonisse moves on

AEK pay $1.1M, 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.

Squad

Jorge Pombo 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 Kifisia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Yael Trepy

Kifisia asked and Cagliari said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words at Kifisia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Imam Jagne 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.

Squad

No place for Amine Messoussa in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Kifisia are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Salim Musah is in the works

Kifisia have made the call to Werder Bremen. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad

Ignacio Ten López remains an outsider

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 Kifisia would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

The dugout

Leonidas Pelkas knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Leonidas Pelkas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

2 Edition

The Kifisia Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

$970.0K settles it between the clubs for Martin Georgiev

AEK have accepted the money. What Kifisia do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Squad

Dimitris Theodoridis stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Dimitris Theodoridis and Kifisia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Kifisia

Jorge Pombo 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.

Squad

Dimitris Theodoridis 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.

Market

One of our own: Georgios Lampropoulos joins the Kifisia first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Georgios Lampropoulos is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Angelos Nikolaou joins the Kifisia first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Angelos Nikolaou is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

1 Edition

The Kifisia Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Jorge Pombo signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jorge Pombo and Kifisia agree another 2 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Kifisia

Jorge Pombo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Kifisia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Angelo Sagal 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.

Market

Kifisia and Angelo Sagal 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.

Market

The clock runs on Benny's contract

49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Squad

9 new faces, and Kifisia 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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Yael Trepy is in the works

Kifisia have made the call to Cagliari. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market

Alberto Botía told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Alberto Botía has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Kifisia.

The dugout

Dimitris Theodoridis asks for a word with the manager

“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.

In brief