Levadiakos U20

19 Feb 2027
Friday
Process
29 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

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

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

Squad

Juan Bauzá breaks a bone — 119 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 119 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Giorgos Nikas keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Levadiakos may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Agustín Urzi 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 Levadiakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Agustín Urzi 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.

Player ratings

Guillermo Balzi in the eights

A performance of 8.31 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

One of those days for Gregorio Rodríguez

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.03, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Looking ahead

Everything rides on Kifisia

Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. Levadiakos know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.

Match

Levadiakos rescue it on 94 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 94. Aris Thessaloniki had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

The wait goes on for Levadiakos

11 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.

Transfer targets

Trofim Melnichenko turns down Levadiakos

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Levadiakos

Niv Eliasi 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

Words at Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fali 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

Levadiakos rebuffed over Andrés Carreño

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Aguilas Doradas have kept their man, and Levadiakos go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Levadiakos come up short against AEK

AEK left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

No hiding place for Giannis Kosti

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

Market

Grigorios Bakasetas steps up from the Levadiakos academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Grigorios Bakasetas 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.

In brief

27 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

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

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

Match

Levadiakos are in real trouble now

Position 13, 21 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.

Market

Giannis Kosti 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 Levadiakos can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Levadiakos close the window on a squad of their own making

2 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

A falling-out at Levadiakos

Niv Eliasi 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 Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fali 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

Levadiakos rebuffed over Yoël van den Ban

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AZ have kept their man, and Levadiakos go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

Fran Vélez 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.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Ognjen Ožegović

7.95, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Levadiakos had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief

26 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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

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

Match

Levadiakos taken apart

0‑3 to Panathinaikos, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Giorgos Nikas 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 Levadiakos can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Emre Ünüvar will not be coming to Levadiakos

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Ajax is saying, and nobody at Levadiakos is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Niv Eliasi 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 Levadiakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Fran Vélez 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.

Transfer targets

NK Domzale tell Levadiakos: Filip Mevlja 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.

The dugout

Éder 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.

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 19. 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.

In brief

25 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Guillermo Balzi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

The wait goes on for Levadiakos

8 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.

Transfer targets

Joaquín Freitas will not be coming to Levadiakos

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Flamengo is saying, and nobody at Levadiakos is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Agustín Urzi 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 Levadiakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fali 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

Door shut on Anísio Cabral

Levadiakos asked and Benfica 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Niv Eliasi

“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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Gregorio Rodríguez

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout

No place for Aliou Badji on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Levadiakos pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

In brief

24 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Fran Vélez: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Levadiakos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

7 matches without a win for Levadiakos

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Levadiakos are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A falling-out at Levadiakos

Agustín Urzi 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 Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fali 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

Levadiakos rebuffed over Panagiotis Katsikas

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. OFI have kept their man, and Levadiakos go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Levadiakos promote Ioannis Ioannidis from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ioannis Ioannidis 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Guillermo Balzi

Marked 8.09 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Looking ahead

Levadiakos face Panserraikos in the game that matters most

Two sides from the bottom of the table, three points, and an afternoon that will be described afterwards as a relegation decider by whoever loses it.

In brief

23 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Giannis Kosti 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 Levadiakos, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Levadiakos

Position 12 and 18 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.

Match

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

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Levadiakos

Agustín Urzi 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

Levadiakos come up short against Volos NPS

Volos NPS left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Words at Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fran Vélez 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

Levadiakos rebuffed over Achilleas Poungouras

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. OFI have kept their man, and Levadiakos go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez in the eights

A performance of 8.60 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

No hiding place for Aliou Badji

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

In brief

22 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 42. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

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

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

Squad

Tempers go at Levadiakos

Agustín Urzi 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

Fali 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

Moses Cobnan makes it 100

100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Jesús Rueda

“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.

The dugout

Niv Eliasi 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 Levadiakos, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Anastasios Androutsos was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Levadiakos dressing room was either.

The dugout

Diamantis Chouchoumis dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

21 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Agustín Urzi

21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Levadiakos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

The wait goes on for Levadiakos

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

Tempers go at Levadiakos

Niv Eliasi 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

Fali 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

Yury Lodygin 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Gregorio Rodríguez at his very best

Marked 8.24. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Levadiakos.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Adrian Şut

Marked 8.24 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Market

Levadiakos may not be able to give Juan Bauzá what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Juan Bauzá wants continental football; whether Levadiakos can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Match

Levadiakos and OFI take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

20 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Agustín Urzi out for 28 days

28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Levadiakos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Levadiakos through in the cup

A 1‑1 win over Olympiacos, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Gregorio Rodríguez

Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Yury Lodygin decides it from twelve yards

1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Squad

Words exchanged at Levadiakos

Niv Eliasi 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

Words at Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fran Vélez 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

Éder 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.

Market

One of our own: Dimitrios Torosidis joins the Levadiakos first team

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

Match

A bad afternoon for Levadiakos against PAOK

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

In brief

19 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Agustín Urzi out for 36 days

36 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Levadiakos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 38. 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.

Market

Giannis Kosti 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 Levadiakos can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A falling-out at Levadiakos

Niv Eliasi 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 Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fali 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 Diamantis Chouchoumis

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

Squad

Aliou Badji is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Aliou Badji 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.

The dugout

Giannis Kosti 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 Levadiakos, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Anastasios Androutsos was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Levadiakos dressing room was either.

In brief

18 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Agustín Urzi damages knee ligaments — 45 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 45 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.

Squad

Yury Lodygin keeps Levadiakos in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Tempers go at Levadiakos

Agustín Urzi 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

Levadiakos see off Atromitos

Three points for Levadiakos, 3‑2 the final word against Atromitos in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Words at Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fali 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 Niv Eliasi

“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.

Match

The drought breaks for Levadiakos

5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Atromitos were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Moses Cobnan

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Gregorio Rodríguez

Marked 8.59 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

17 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 52. 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

A knee injury of the worst kind for Agustín Urzi

54 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Levadiakos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

The wait goes on for Levadiakos

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.

Player ratings

Adrian Şut pops up at the right end — 7.94

7.94, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad

Agustín Urzi 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 Levadiakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fran Vélez 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 Fran Vélez

“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.

Match

Levadiakos at the halfway mark

Half the programme played, position 11, 12 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.

Match

Levadiakos caught on 85 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Kifisia scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

In brief

16 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Agustín Urzi

61 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Levadiakos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

A hiding for Levadiakos

Beaten 1‑7 by Aris Thessaloniki, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Player ratings

Adrian Şut pops up at the right end — 7.62

7.62, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Match

4 matches without a win for Levadiakos

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Levadiakos are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A falling-out at Levadiakos

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

Match

8 goals as Levadiakos and Aris Thessaloniki go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Levadiakos and Aris Thessaloniki, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

Squad

7 past Yury Lodygin

Whether it was the goalkeeper or the ten in front of him is the argument that will fill every conversation in town this week. 3 saves does not settle it either way.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alexandru Pantea

“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

15 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Agustín Urzi damages knee ligaments — 70 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 70 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.

Match

A hiding for Levadiakos

Beaten 0‑3 by AEK, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market

Giannis Kosti 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 Levadiakos can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Words exchanged at Levadiakos

Agustín Urzi 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

Fali 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

Yury Lodygin 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.

Market

One of our own: Grigorios Tachtsidis joins the Levadiakos first team

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

Boardroom

Nobody left the Levadiakos 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.

In brief

14 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Agustín Urzi out for 77 days

77 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Levadiakos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Niv Eliasi 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 Levadiakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Fran Vélez 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

The manager makes an example of Giannis Kosti

“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.

Match

Olympiacos take the points off Levadiakos

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

Squad

7 new faces, and Levadiakos 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.

The dugout

Anastasios Androutsos 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.

The dugout

Niv Eliasi 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.

The dugout

Diamantis Chouchoumis dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

13 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Agustín Urzi

85 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Levadiakos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Niv Eliasi keeps Levadiakos 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Levadiakos

Niv Eliasi 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 Levadiakos

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

Match

Panathinaikos take the points off Levadiakos

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Fran Vélez 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

Anastasios Androutsos faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Anastasios Androutsos after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

Dimitris Emmanouilidis gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Dimitris Emmanouilidis is on it.

Looking ahead

Giannis Kosti faces his old club

Olympiacos next, and one man in the Levadiakos dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief

12 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Agustín Urzi damages knee ligaments — 94 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 94 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 ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 34. 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

Words exchanged at Levadiakos

Niv Eliasi 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

Real improvement from Stelios Vallindras at Levadiakos

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Stelios Vallindras is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Fali 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.

Match

Moses Cobnan sends Levadiakos past Panserraikos

It finished 2‑0, and it was Moses Cobnan’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Levadiakos.

Market

Levadiakos may not be able to give Juan Bauzá what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Juan Bauzá wants continental football; whether Levadiakos can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Éder

Marked 8.06 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout

A satisfied Anastasios Androutsos

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Anastasios Androutsos could afford to be generous.

In brief

11 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Agustín Urzi out for 102 days

102 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Levadiakos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Chastening afternoon for Levadiakos

A 0‑3 beating by Asteras was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad

Yury Lodygin out for 18 days

The medical room confirms 18 days on the sidelines for Yury Lodygin, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Levadiakos

Agustín Urzi 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

A late step up for Niv Eliasi

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Niv Eliasi

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

Market

Levadiakos promote Vasileios Bakasetas from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vasileios Bakasetas 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 Androutsos steps up from the Levadiakos academy

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

In brief

  • Boardroom Doors closed at Levadiakos
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout No place in the plan for Éder
10 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Agustín Urzi out for 109 days

109 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Levadiakos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Gregorio Rodríguez

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Levadiakos

Agustín Urzi 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 Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fali 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 ratings

Ninety minutes of Adrian Şut at his very best

Marked 8.04. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Levadiakos.

The dugout

No hiding place for Aliou Badji

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

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Levadiakos

17 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.

Match

Adrian Şut rescues a point for Levadiakos

It needed Adrian Şut to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Volos NPS, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

Anastasios Androutsos on the point

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

In brief

9 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Agustín Urzi

117 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Levadiakos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Levadiakos march on in the cup

Atromitos are out and Levadiakos go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings

Guillermo Balzi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Dimitris Emmanouilidis scores twice — 8.36

Two goals and a mark of 8.36 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Agustín Urzi 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 Levadiakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Giannis Satsias

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.

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.41 on the card, and the Levadiakos support went home talking about one name.

The dugout

Juan Bauzá 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.

In brief

8 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Agustín Urzi out for 124 days

124 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Levadiakos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

A falling-out at Levadiakos

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

Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

Match

Moses Cobnan the difference as Levadiakos beat OFI

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Moses Cobnan. 2‑1 against OFI, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout

No hiding place for Fran Vélez

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

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Moses Cobnan

A mark of 7.91, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Player ratings

Guillermo Balzi beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Anastasios Androutsos has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Anastasios Androutsos on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout

The form table has caught Diamantis Chouchoumis

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.

In brief

  • Looking ahead Giannis Kosti faces his old club
  • Squad A season on the outside for Fali
  • The dugout The plan did not have a place for Jesús Rueda
7 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Agustín Urzi damages knee ligaments — 132 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 132 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 ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 42. 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

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

Squad

Jesús Rueda 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 Levadiakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Leonidas Mavropanos steps up from the Levadiakos academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Leonidas Mavropanos 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

Fotios Karelis steps up from the Levadiakos academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fotios Karelis 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 Levadiakos against PAOK

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

Squad

Late improvement for Niv Eliasi

At 24 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.

The dugout

Jesús Rueda 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.

In brief

6 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Agustín Urzi out for 140 days

140 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Levadiakos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom

Levadiakos close the window on a squad of their own making

23 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets

Stavros Pilios stays at AEK as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Levadiakos will try again when the window opens; AEK may not be selling by then.

Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

Match

Adrian Şut’s goal not enough for Levadiakos

Adrian Şut scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Panetolikos, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

A falling-out at Levadiakos

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Yury Lodygin

“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.

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Adrian Şut at his very best

Marked 8.10. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Levadiakos.

In brief

5 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Both of them Moses Cobnan's — 9.45

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.45, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Stavros Pilios

Levadiakos and AEK have settled on $2.7M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Squad

Yury Lodygin stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market

Giannis Sourdis asks to leave Levadiakos

“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

Number 100 for Ognjen Ožegović

100 goals for this club, and somewhere in the stand there is a person who can still tell you where they were for most of them.

Match

Moses Cobnan sends Levadiakos past Atromitos

It finished 3‑2, and it was Moses Cobnan’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Levadiakos.

Squad

Words at Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fran Vélez 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

Guillermo Balzi 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 Levadiakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

Levadiakos supporters have found a favourite in Moses Cobnan

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Moses Cobnan 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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Giorgos Kornezos 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 Levadiakos can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Levadiakos bid $2.5M for Stavros Pilios

The offer went to AEK 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.

Market

Business is business: Panagiotis Liagas goes

Aris Thessaloniki paid $1.5M and Levadiakos took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Levadiakos sign Samir Ben Sallam for $480.0K

The paperwork is done: Samir Ben Sallam joins from Panserraikos in a deal worth $480.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad

A falling-out at Levadiakos

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

Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

Market

Levadiakos may not be able to give Juan Bauzá what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Juan Bauzá wants continental football; whether Levadiakos can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

The formation has left Fali behind

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

Looking ahead

Éder goes back to face Atromitos

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Éder’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Levadiakos needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

  • Squad Fali remains an outsider
  • The dugout Juan Bauzá knocks on the manager's door
  • Looking ahead Home comforts ahead for Levadiakos
3 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Éder arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Éder has, at Levadiakos, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market

Aris Thessaloniki come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Levadiakos did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Levadiakos make their move for Andrews Tetteh

$4.1M on the table at Panathinaikos. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Paolo Rizzi rejects the move

Levadiakos had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Mattersburg, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Words exchanged at Levadiakos

Agustín Urzi 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

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

Squad

Giorgos Kornezos out for 27 days

The medical room confirms 27 days on the sidelines for Giorgos Kornezos, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Market

Still no ink between Levadiakos and Éder

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Levadiakos, another week without a signature from Éder.

Market

Levadiakos bring in an old head

Fran Vélez is 35 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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

AEK come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Levadiakos did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Levadiakos rebuffed over Andrews Tetteh

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Panathinaikos have kept their man, and Levadiakos go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Giannis Satsias arrives at Levadiakos in a $520.0K statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Levadiakos have paid $520.0K for Giannis Satsias, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Transfer targets

Paolo Rizzi is a medical away from Levadiakos

The deal with Mattersburg 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.

Squad

Giannis Kosti stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Giannis Kosti and Levadiakos agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Agustín Urzi 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 Levadiakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Levadiakos promote Stavros Nikolaou from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stavros Nikolaou 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

Angelos Diamantakos steps up from the Levadiakos academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Angelos Diamantakos 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

12 new faces, and Levadiakos 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.

In brief

1 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Panagiotis Liagas asks to leave Levadiakos

“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

A career in one shirt: Panagiotis Liagas

10 seasons and 167 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.

Transfer targets

An offer of $520.0K for Giannis Satsias

Levadiakos have gone to Panetolikos 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.

Squad

Marios Vichos stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Marios Vichos and Levadiakos agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Levadiakos

Agustín Urzi 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 Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enis Çokaj 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

Talks stall between Levadiakos and Yury Lodygin

“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.

Market

The clock runs on Marios Vichos'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.

Transfer targets

Levadiakos try to borrow Paolo Rizzi

Mattersburg 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.

In brief