Levadiakos

Greek Super League
13 Jul 2028
Thursday
Process
102 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Efthymios Mitroglou out for 14 days

14 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.

Market

Marko Kerkez 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

José Sacramento is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Levadiakos

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

Squad

Léandro Gomes gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Léandro Gomes has just signed for Levadiakos, and for once the answer mattered.

The dugout

Ognjen Ožegović is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

The dugout

Mees Adrichem 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

Levadiakos pick up Léandro Gomes for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Léandro Gomes arrives at Levadiakos with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

The dugout

A door opens for Manuel Baldé

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

Back issues
101 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Efthymios Mitroglou out for 21 days

21 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

Vasileios Mavropanos has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Levadiakos can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Boardroom

The Levadiakos board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Squad

Konstantinos Angelakis 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. Konstantinos Angelakis has, at Levadiakos, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market

Gabriele Negri 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Levadiakos

Dimitris Emmanouilidis 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 Agustín Urzi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

A long bet from Levadiakos on Konstantinos Angelakis

He is 20, and nobody at Levadiakos signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Boardroom

5 new boys at the Levadiakos academy

Signed today, seen by nobody for years, and one of them may one day be the reason the club exists. That is the whole of the argument for an academy, and it is a good one.

In brief

100 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Levadiakos boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Efthymios Mitroglou

30 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

Ilann Garin 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. Ilann Garin has, at Levadiakos, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

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

Marios Vichos 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.

Boardroom

Gabriel Morales will join Levadiakos for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Gabriel Morales has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Levadiakos have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

In brief

99 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Efthymios Mitroglou damages knee ligaments — 38 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 38 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

A move Jefferson Buitrago would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jefferson Buitrago is living that version at Levadiakos, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Dimitris Emmanouilidis 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 Agustín Urzi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom

Levadiakos agree a free transfer for Kostas Batos

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Ahmed Guettaf's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

No hiding place for Scott Jr. Calderwood

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

The dugout

Marko Kerkez has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Marko Kerkez has written the date down.

Market

Levadiakos pick up Jefferson Buitrago for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Jefferson Buitrago arrives at Levadiakos with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

In brief

98 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Efthymios Mitroglou 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.

Market

Juan Bauzá agrees terms with Panserraikos

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Levadiakos people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad

A falling-out at Levadiakos

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

Squad

A move Andrea Brizi would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Andrea Brizi is living that version at Levadiakos, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Agustín Urzi 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

Door shut on Christos Palaiologou

Levadiakos asked and AEK 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

Ognjen Ožegović is still paying for one afternoon at Levadiakos

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Market

Levadiakos buy the years ahead of Andrea Brizi

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

The dugout

Mees Adrichem 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

97 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Vasileios Mavropanos has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Levadiakos can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

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 Marios Vichos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

One of our own: Evangelos Samaris joins the Levadiakos first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Evangelos Samaris 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: Grigorios Torosidis joins the Levadiakos first team

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

Market

Andreas Lampropoulos steps up from the Levadiakos academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andreas Lampropoulos 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

One of our own: Pavlos Nikolaou joins the Levadiakos first team

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Marko Kerkez

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

Squad

A step back for Grigorios Papagiannopoulos at Levadiakos

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

In brief

96 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

29 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Levadiakos

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad

Tempers go at Levadiakos

Dimitris Emmanouilidis 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 Agustín Urzi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

95 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Christos Kryparakos gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Christos Kryparakos has just signed for Levadiakos, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Levadiakos may not be able to give Ramiro Macagno what he wants

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

Squad

Dimitris Emmanouilidis 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 dugout

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Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

Boardroom

Levadiakos beat the market to Stamatis Sarigiannis from Atromitos

Atromitos will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Stamatis Sarigiannis has pre-agreed a move to Levadiakos, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad

Osvaldo Miranda wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Levadiakos know it.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Ahmed Guettaf's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

No hiding place for Osvaldo Miranda

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

In brief

94 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Juan Bauzá 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 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. Marios Vichos 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

Ahmed Guettaf 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

Leonel Rubiño wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Levadiakos know it.

The dugout

Ognjen Ožegović is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief

93 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Vasileios Mavropanos has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Levadiakos can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Squad

Ognjen Ožegović stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ognjen Ožegović and Levadiakos agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Levadiakos

Dimitris Emmanouilidis 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. Agustín Urzi 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's exit leaves Marios Vichos exposed

Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Marios Vichos is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.

The dugout

Telis Karasalidis 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.

In brief

92 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Levadiakos boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Tempers go at Levadiakos

Dimitris Emmanouilidis 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. Agustín Urzi 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

Marios Vichos loses the manager who believed in him

A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Marios Vichos's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.

The dugout

Telis Karasalidis 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 Telis Karasalidis trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Adrián Hernández

“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

91 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Adrián Hernández is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Levadiakos is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Telis Karasalidis 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 dugout

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Squad

Marios Vichos 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

Levadiakos lose Konstantinos Kastanas

36 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

Ahmed Guettaf is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief

90 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Juan Bauzá 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

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

Squad

Agustín Urzi 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

No hiding place for Marko Kerkez

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

The dugout

Ognjen Ožegović is still paying for one afternoon at Levadiakos

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout

Capella 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.

In brief

89 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at Levadiakos

Dimitris Emmanouilidis 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. Agustín Urzi 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

Marko Kerkez 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 Marko Kerkez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

88 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

3 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Levadiakos

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Boardroom

Levadiakos put Vasileios Mavropanos on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

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. Marios Vichos 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 Adrián Hernández

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

The dugout

A door opens for Ahmed Guettaf

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

87 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Telis Karasalidis 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Adrián Hernández

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adrián Hernández will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Levadiakos the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Dimitris Emmanouilidis 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 dugout

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Squad

Words at Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Urzi 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

Ahmed Guettaf is still paying for one afternoon at Levadiakos

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

86 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Adrián Hernández says Levadiakos went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Ramiro Macagno has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Levadiakos can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Levadiakos

Dimitris Emmanouilidis 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 Agustín Urzi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Yury Lodygin

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

Squad

Taxiarchis Filon signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Taxiarchis Filon and Levadiakos agree another 4 years.

In brief

85 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Yury Lodygin 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

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

Joel Abu Hanna 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

Leonel Rubiño wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Levadiakos know it.

The dugout

Telis Karasalidis 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 Telis Karasalidis trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Manuel Baldé 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

84 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Vasileios Mavropanos has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Levadiakos can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Levadiakos boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Juan Bauzá 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

Telis Karasalidis signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Telis Karasalidis commits to Levadiakos for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Levadiakos

Telis Karasalidis 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 Agustín Urzi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Marios Vichos loses the manager who believed in him

A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Marios Vichos's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.

Squad

Pedro Pereira slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Pedro Pereira is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

The dugout

Manuel Baldé 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 Manuel Baldé trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

83 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Only the photograph left for Adrián Hernández

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adrián Hernández will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Levadiakos the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Dimitris Emmanouilidis 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 dugout

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Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Marko Kerkez

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

The dugout

Ahmed Guettaf is still paying for one afternoon at Levadiakos

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

82 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Full time on the season at Levadiakos

Position 11 on 22 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.

Player ratings

Agustín Urzi beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

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 Marios Vichos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Levadiakos find a way past Kifisia

Kifisia made Levadiakos work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Alexandr Shestyuk was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.30. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Levadiakos are still strangers to each other

13 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.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Ognjen Ožegović's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

Yury Lodygin 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

81 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

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

Joel Abu Hanna stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Joel Abu Hanna and Levadiakos agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Levadiakos

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Words exchanged at Levadiakos

Dimitris Emmanouilidis 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

Agustín Urzi 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

Agustín Urzi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Aris Thessaloniki take the points off Levadiakos

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

Squad

Levadiakos count the cost of losing Theodoros Papagiannopoulos

16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Vasileios Mavropanos to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

80 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Levadiakos taken apart

0‑3 to AEK, 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.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Levadiakos boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Juan Bauzá 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

7 in and 6 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.

Market

Levadiakos turn down Panserraikos for Adrián Hernández

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings

Agustín Urzi beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Tempers go at Levadiakos

Dimitris Emmanouilidis 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

Ivan Verhun gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ivan Verhun has just signed for Levadiakos, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

In brief

79 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Only the photograph left for Adrián Hernández

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adrián Hernández will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Levadiakos the goodbyes have quietly begun.

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.

The dugout

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Romain Muro gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Romain Muro has just signed for Levadiakos, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Marios Vichos 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.

Boardroom

Christos Palaiologou will join Levadiakos for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Christos Palaiologou has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Levadiakos have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Player ratings

Dimitris Emmanouilidis was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. 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.

The dugout

Ahmed Guettaf is still paying for one afternoon at Levadiakos

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Yury Lodygin

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

78 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Levadiakos taken apart

0‑5 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.

Player ratings

Agustín Urzi was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 31. 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

Ramiro Macagno has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Levadiakos can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Levadiakos

Dimitris Emmanouilidis 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 Agustín Urzi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Levadiakos rebuffed over Shokry Naguib

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

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.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Levadiakos

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Squad

Leonel Rubiño wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Levadiakos can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

In brief

77 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Agustín Urzi was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 33. 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.

Player ratings

Alexandr Shestyuk scores twice — 9.14

Two goals and a mark of 9.14 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Mariano Peña 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

Words exchanged at Levadiakos

Telis Karasalidis 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 move Clayton Bonevacia would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Clayton Bonevacia is living that version at Levadiakos, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match

At last: Levadiakos win one

6 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

Agustín Urzi 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

Alexandr Shestyuk sends Levadiakos past Panserraikos

It finished 3‑1, and it was Alexandr Shestyuk’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Levadiakos.

Transfer targets

Levadiakos rebuffed over Thiago Romano

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.

In brief

76 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Agustín Urzi beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 45. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Adrián Hernández agrees terms with Panserraikos

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Levadiakos people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Match

6 matches without a win for Levadiakos

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Levadiakos are no longer polite ones.

Market

Leonel Rubiño 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

Ramiro Macagno signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ramiro Macagno commits to Levadiakos for another 3 years.

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. Marios Vichos 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 Balša Popović

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Ramiro Macagno

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

In brief

75 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Capella 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.

Match

5 matches without a win for Levadiakos

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Levadiakos are no longer polite ones.

Market

Agustín Orofino has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Levadiakos they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

A move Gabriele Negri would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Gabriele Negri is living that version at Levadiakos, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Tempers go at Levadiakos

Dimitris Emmanouilidis 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.

The dugout

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Words at Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Urzi 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

Panathinaikos tell Levadiakos: Sverrir Ingi Ingason 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

Julian van Esdonk signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Julian van Esdonk commits to Levadiakos for another 4 years.

In brief

74 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Dimitris Emmanouilidis 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Andréa Librici

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andréa Librici will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Levadiakos the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

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

4 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.

Squad

Words at Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marios Vichos 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.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Levadiakos

4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Match

Levadiakos come up short against AEL Larisa

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

Squad

Alexandr Shestyuk reaches 50 goals

50 goals for the club, every one of them filed away in the memory of a supporter somewhere.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Vasileios Mavropanos to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

73 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

20 Dec 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.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Yury Lodygin

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

Agustín Urzi beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

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 Marios Vichos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Alexandr Shestyuk’s goal not enough for Levadiakos

Alexandr Shestyuk scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to OFI, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Player ratings

Alexandr Shestyuk was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.18. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Vasileios Mavropanos to a room that had heard them before.

Market

Levadiakos sign Artur Mukha, one for the future

Artur Mukha is 20, and Levadiakos have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

72 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Yury Lodygin

There were 10 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.

Match

Levadiakos taken apart

1‑4 to PAOK, 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

Juan Bauzá 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.

The dugout

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Giannis Kosti pops up at the right end — 7.90

7.90, 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

A muscle injury sidelines Petar Zajc for 16 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Levadiakos will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

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.

Squad

Alexandr Shestyuk 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

71 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Alexandr Shestyuk scores twice — 8.74

Two goals and a mark of 8.74 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Yury Lodygin stands alone

6 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.

Player ratings

Dimitris Emmanouilidis was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 25. 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

Only the photograph left for Agustín Orofino

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Agustín Orofino will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Levadiakos the goodbyes have quietly begun.

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.

The dugout

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Words at Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marios Vichos 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 Agustín Urzi

“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

Adrián Hernández signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Adrián Hernández commits to Levadiakos for another 1 years.

In brief

70 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Agustín Urzi 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.

The terraces

Anger at Levadiakos spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market

Only the photograph left for Andréa Librici

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andréa Librici will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Levadiakos the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at Levadiakos

Telis Karasalidis 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

Marios Vichos 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

Giannis Kosti sends Levadiakos past Atromitos

It finished 1‑0, and it was Giannis Kosti’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Levadiakos.

Player ratings

One of those days for Giannis Kosti

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.18, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Vasileios Mavropanos, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

Capella 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

69 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Agustín Urzi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Giannis Kosti 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 falling-out at Levadiakos

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

Match

Levadiakos come up short against Kifisia

Kifisia left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Alexandr Shestyuk 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

The half-term report on Levadiakos

Position 11, 10 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.

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 0‑1 Vasileios Mavropanos left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

Panagiotis Symelidis 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

Capella is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Levadiakos has been clear about where Capella stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

68 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Juan Bauzá 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.

The dugout

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Adrián Hernández says Levadiakos went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

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. Marios Vichos 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

Telis Karasalidis 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.

Match

Levadiakos get the job done against Aris Thessaloniki

A 1‑0 win over Aris Thessaloniki, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Agustín Urzi

Marked 8.13 — 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

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.” Vasileios Mavropanos kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief

67 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Agustín Urzi beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 38. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Leonel Rubiño

15 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.

Market

Agustín Orofino has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Levadiakos they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

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.

The dugout

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Squad

Marios Vichos 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

Levadiakos come up short against AEK

AEK left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Leonel Rubiño wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Levadiakos know it.

The dugout

Vasileios Mavropanos: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

66 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Leonel Rubiño out for 24 days

24 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.

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Levadiakos board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Match

Chastening afternoon for Levadiakos

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

Market

Andréa Librici is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Levadiakos is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Yury Lodygin

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

Squad

Words at Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Shestyuk 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.

Boardroom

Inquest at Levadiakos

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Vasileios Mavropanos to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

65 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Leonel Rubiño

31 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 taken apart

1‑6 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.

Squad

9 saves: Yury Lodygin was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

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

Levadiakos are in real trouble now

Position 12, 7 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.

Player ratings

Vintage Ognjen Ožegović — 7.84

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.84, and nobody on the pitch better.

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

Ognjen Ožegović among the goals in a wild afternoon

7 goals in one match, Ognjen Ožegović on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Levadiakos and Panathinaikos.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Dimitris Emmanouilidis

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

  • Squad Marios Vichos falls out with a teammate over standards
  • Boardroom Doors closed at Levadiakos
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
64 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Leonel Rubiño out for 40 days

40 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 Agustín Urzi

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

The dugout

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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. Marios Vichos 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.

Match

Giorgos Nikas the difference as Levadiakos beat Panserraikos

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Giorgos Nikas. 2‑0 against Panserraikos, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout

Telis Karasalidis 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

One of those days for Dimitris Emmanouilidis

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.34, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Giorgos Nikas

Marked 8.10 — 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

63 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Dimitris Emmanouilidis runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 41. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Leonel Rubiño damages knee ligaments — 47 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 47 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.

Market

Juan Bauzá 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.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Yury Lodygin

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.

Market

Agustín Orofino is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Levadiakos is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Tempers go at Levadiakos

Telis Karasalidis 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 Levadiakos against Asteras

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

Squad

Words at Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Shestyuk 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

Vasileios Mavropanos 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.

In brief

62 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Leonel Rubiño damages knee ligaments — 55 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 55 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

Levadiakos out of the cup

Asteras ended it 0‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Player ratings

Agustín Urzi beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 32. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Lucas 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.

Player ratings

Vintage Ognjen Ožegović — 7.98

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.98, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market

Andréa Librici has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Levadiakos they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Ognjen Ožegović stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ognjen Ožegović and Levadiakos agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Levadiakos

Dimitris Emmanouilidis 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

The drought breaks for Levadiakos

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

In brief

61 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dylan Encina damages knee ligaments — 18 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 18 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

Agustín Urzi 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.

The dugout

Panagiotis Symelidis says Levadiakos went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

5 matches without a win for Levadiakos

The run now stands at 5, 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. Marios Vichos 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.

Match

Alexandr Shestyuk answers AEL Larisa immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Alexandr Shestyuk had Levadiakos level again within 3 minutes, and AEL Larisa never got to play with a lead at all.

Squad

Levadiakos are still strangers to each other

8 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Juan Bauzá

“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

60 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Dylan Encina damages knee ligaments — 25 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 25 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

Dimitris Emmanouilidis was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 32. 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

6 saves: Yury Lodygin was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

The dugout

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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

Capella is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.

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.

Match

Levadiakos come up short against OFI

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Giorgos Nikas

“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

59 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Dylan Encina out for 34 days

34 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.

Market

Juan Bauzá 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Agustín Orofino

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Agustín Orofino will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Levadiakos the goodbyes have quietly begun.

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

Real improvement from Hakim Sahabo at Levadiakos

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Hakim Sahabo is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

A late step up for Giannis Kosti

At 27 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.

Match

PAOK take the points off Levadiakos

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

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

Dimitris Emmanouilidis runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

58 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Leonel Rubiño

84 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

8 saves: Yury Lodygin was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Giorgos Nikas 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

Marios Vichos has been here 11 seasons

188 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Player ratings

Dimitris Emmanouilidis was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 25. 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.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 19 signed and 9 gone

That is the business done at Levadiakos until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market

Only the photograph left for Andréa Librici

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andréa Librici will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Levadiakos the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

The Panserraikos deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Adrián Hernández reports back to Levadiakos with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Squad

The step up is real for Andréa Librici

At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

In brief

57 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Dimitris Emmanouilidis was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 43. 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

Leonel Rubiño damages knee ligaments — 91 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 91 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The dugout

Adrián Hernández: 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.

Transfer targets

Malik Pimpong turns down Levadiakos

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

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

The step up is real for Agustín Orofino

At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Dimitris Emmanouilidis has improved at 26, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Match

Atromitos take the points off Levadiakos

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Juan Bauzá

“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

56 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Leonel Rubiño out for 98 days

98 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.

Market

Adrián Hernández 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.

The dugout

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Market

Levadiakos sign Manuel Baldé for $770.0K

The paperwork is done: Manuel Baldé joins from Aris Thessaloniki in a deal worth $770.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad

Capella is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.

Squad

Telis Karasalidis 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

Marios Vichos has improved at 27, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Levadiakos walk away from Vasilis Grosdis

$210.0K was the most the club would pay and Volos NPS 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.

Transfer targets

Levadiakos rebuffed over Chizzy Ezenwata

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

In brief

55 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Leonel Rubiño

106 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.

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.

The dugout

Juan Bauzá says Levadiakos went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Agustín Orofino has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Levadiakos they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

Agustín Orofino has agreed to leave Levadiakos for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Hakim Sahabo is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.

Transfer targets

Levadiakos bid $150.0K for Vasilis Grosdis

The offer went to Volos NPS 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.

Transfer targets

Aris Thessaloniki tell Levadiakos: Manuel Baldé 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

Tempers go at Levadiakos

Dimitris Emmanouilidis 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.

In brief

54 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Leonel Rubiño damages knee ligaments — 114 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 114 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.

Market

Giorgos Nikas 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.

Market

Andréa Librici is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Levadiakos is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Transfer targets

An offer of $140.0K for Luciano Maidana

Levadiakos have gone to Kifisia 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

Words exchanged at Levadiakos

Dimitris Emmanouilidis 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 Andréa Librici at Levadiakos

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Andréa Librici is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Daniel Kanu

Levadiakos asked and Charlton Athletic 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

Panagiotis Symelidis stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Panagiotis Symelidis and Levadiakos agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

Levadiakos try to borrow Alexandr Shestyuk

Cukaricki 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

53 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Leonel Rubiño damages knee ligaments — 122 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 122 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.

Market

Juan Bauzá 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.

Market

Levadiakos sign Dylan Encina for $190.0K

The paperwork is done: Dylan Encina joins from AEL Larisa in a deal worth $190.0K. 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

Marios Vichos 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

Crvena Zvezda tell Levadiakos: Lincoln 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

A late step up for Giannis Tsivelekidis

At 28 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.

Transfer targets

Levadiakos try to borrow Pierre Mounguengue

Dynamo Kyiv 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Adrián Hernández

“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

52 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Leonel Rubiño damages knee ligaments — 130 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 130 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.

Market

Christos Papadopoulos has said yes to Panserraikos

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Levadiakos have lost him in all but the paperwork.

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Transfer targets

Dylan Encina due for a Levadiakos medical

Everything agreed with AEL Larisa, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

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. Marios Vichos 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

Petrolul tell Levadiakos: Ionut Ratiu 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

No hiding place for Joel Abu Hanna

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

Transfer targets

Levadiakos try to borrow Petar Zajc

FK Senica 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

51 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Leonel Rubiño

137 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.

Market

Giannis Kosti 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.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Marko Lekić rejects the move

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

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.

Transfer targets

An offer of $130.0K for Dylan Encina

Levadiakos have gone to AEL Larisa 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.

Market

Panagiotis Liagas moves on

Asteras pay $630.0K, 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.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Levadiakos walk away from Lefteris Tasiouras

$73.0K was the most the club would pay and Volos NPS 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.

Market

Eyes on Christos Papadopoulos again

The phone has started ringing about Christos Papadopoulos again, and this time the name on the line is Panserraikos. Levadiakos are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Levadiakos lose Giannis Satsias

43 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

50 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Leonel Rubiño damages knee ligaments — 144 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 144 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.

Market

Panagiotis Liagas 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.

Market

Levadiakos get their man

The chase for Marko Kerkez ended with $980.0K changing hands and Aris Thessaloniki out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Market

Andréa Librici has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Levadiakos they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

Andréa Librici signs for Aris Thessaloniki while still at Levadiakos

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Andréa Librici has agreed terms with Aris Thessaloniki for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Dimitris Emmanouilidis stays put

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

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.

Transfer targets

Levadiakos make their move for Lefteris Tasiouras

$73.0K on the table at Volos NPS. 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

Levadiakos baulk at the price for Samir Ben Sallam

Panserraikos wanted more than $94.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

In brief

49 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Giorgos Manthatis 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.

Transfer targets

An offer of $980.0K for Marko Kerkez

Levadiakos have gone to Aris Thessaloniki 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.

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Marius Man will not be coming to Levadiakos

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Rafał Adamski

Levadiakos asked and Legia 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

A late step up for Giorgos Nikas

At 27 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.

Squad

Words at Levadiakos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joel Abu Hanna 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

Lamarana Jallow signs on for more

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

Squad

Hakim Sahabo 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.

In brief

48 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Juan Bauzá 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.

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The step up is real for Alexandru Pantea

At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Panagiotis Tsantilas rejects the move

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

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.

Transfer targets

Levadiakos make their move for Samir Ben Sallam

$33.0K on the table at Panserraikos. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Levadiakos sell Aliou Badji for $570.0K

Aliou Badji has left for OFI in a $570.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

A late step up for Giannis Kosti

At 27 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.

Market

Levadiakos sell Giannis Sourdis for $280.0K

Giannis Sourdis has left for OFI in a $280.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

In brief

47 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

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.

Market

Terms done: Aliou Badji is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and OFI waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Levadiakos is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad

Agustín Urzi out for 14 days

The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Agustín Urzi, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Marius Man

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Levadiakos have done the hard part with Astra, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

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

Real improvement from Christos Papadopoulos at Levadiakos

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Christos Papadopoulos is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Florin Cicaldau

Levadiakos asked and Pandurii 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

Late improvement for Dimitris Emmanouilidis

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.

The dugout

The manager makes Aliou Badji a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Levadiakos. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

46 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Giannis Sourdis agrees terms with Panserraikos

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Levadiakos people have started saying his name in the past tense.

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.

Market

Levadiakos turn down OFI for Aliou Badji

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Levadiakos count the cost of losing Niv Eliasi

16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Transfer targets

Trofim Melnichenko will not be coming to Levadiakos

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

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.

Transfer targets

Levadiakos rebuffed over Maxim Voronov

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

Squad

Giannis Sourdis has improved at 25, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

In brief

45 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Levadiakos turn down Panathinaikos for Ognjen Ožegović

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Aliou Badji 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.

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Giannis Sourdis is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Levadiakos is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

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

Late improvement for Niv Eliasi

At 25 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

The step up is real for Stelios Vallindras

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Transfer targets

Levadiakos rebuffed over Levente Szabó

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

Squad

Enis Çokaj 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

44 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Panagiotis Liagas 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.

The dugout

Enis Çokaj: 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.

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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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Juan Bauzá

“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

Panagiotis Liagas 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.

In brief

43 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Giannis Kosti 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

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.

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

Squad

Capella is a square peg at Levadiakos

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout

Panagiotis Liagas 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.

In brief

42 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Miguelito damages knee ligaments — 32 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 32 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

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. 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.

In brief

41 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Miguelito damages knee ligaments — 39 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 39 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.

Market

Giorgos Kornezos 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.

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Giannis Sourdis is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Levadiakos is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

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.

Market

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

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

In brief

40 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Miguelito out for 46 days

46 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.

Market

Miguelito 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.

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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

Leonel Rubiño wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Levadiakos can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Adrián Hernández

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

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Miguelito 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.

Market

The shop window has Mariano Peña in it

Levadiakos have let the market know Mariano Peña can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

39 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Miguelito

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.

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

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.

Market

Juan Bauzá wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

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.

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Miguelito 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.

Market

Levadiakos put Giannis Kosti up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Giannis Kosti may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

The dugout

The manager comes out for Panagiotis Liagas

Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Panagiotis Liagas has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.

In brief

38 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Miguelito out for 63 days

63 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.

Market

Giannis Kosti 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.

The dugout

Hakim Sahabo: 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.

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.

The dugout

Joel Abu Hanna 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

No place for Mariano Peña in the new shape

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

The dugout

Giorgos Manthatis 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.

Market

Levadiakos put Miguelito up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Miguelito may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

The dugout

The manager makes Juan Bauzá a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Levadiakos. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

37 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Miguelito out for 72 days

72 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.

Market

Giorgos Kornezos 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.

The dugout

Joel Abu Hanna says Levadiakos went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

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Giannis Sourdis has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Levadiakos they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

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

Giorgos Nikas pulls a muscle — 14 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Market

One of our own: Theodoros Papagiannopoulos joins the Levadiakos first team

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

Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

In brief

36 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Miguelito

79 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.

Market

Miguelito 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.

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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. 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Enis Çokaj

“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

The armband comes off Yury Lodygin

Levadiakos will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

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

Adrián Hernández has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Adrián Hernández has written the date down.

In brief

35 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Miguelito damages knee ligaments — 88 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 88 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.

Market

Panagiotis Liagas 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.

The dugout

Panagiotis Symelidis says Levadiakos went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Juan Bauzá

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

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.

In brief

34 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Miguelito

96 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.

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.

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

Joel Abu Hanna pulls a muscle — 15 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad

Enis Çokaj 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

No hiding place for Giorgos Kornezos

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

In brief

33 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Miguelito

104 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.

Market

Javi Hervás 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.

The dugout

Konstantinos Apostolakis says Levadiakos went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Giannis Sourdis is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Levadiakos is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

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

Miguelito wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Levadiakos can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad

A last season at home is what Miguelito is after

It is sentimental, it is completely genuine, and it is the beginning of a departure nobody has announced. The club can be gracious about it or it can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Giannis Sourdis told to find a new club

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

The dugout

A door opens for Adrián Hernández

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

32 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Miguelito

113 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.

Market

Miguelito 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.

The dugout

Miguelito 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

Ognjen Ožegović signs on for more

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

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

Leonel Rubiño wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Levadiakos know it.

In brief

31 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Miguelito damages knee ligaments — 122 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 122 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

A fracture rules Leonardo Pérez out for 17 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Levadiakos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Panagiotis Liagas 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

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 Enis Çokaj was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Aliou Badji is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Levadiakos has been clear about where Aliou Badji stands, which is more than many ever get.

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.

The dugout

Javi Hervás 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

A door opens for Hakim Sahabo

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

30 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Miguelito damages knee ligaments — 130 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 130 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.

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.

Match

Levadiakos finish in position 8

32 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Squad

25 days out for Leonardo Pérez after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Levadiakos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Guillermo Balzi beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Giannis Kosti delivers — 7.81

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Giannis Kosti scored, was marked 7.81, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

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

Giannis Kosti sends Levadiakos past Kifisia

It finished 2‑1, and it was Giannis Kosti’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Levadiakos.

Match

Levadiakos end the wait against Kifisia

It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

In brief

29 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Miguelito out for 138 days

138 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 fracture rules Leonardo Pérez out for 33 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Levadiakos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Javi Hervás 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.

The dugout

Enis Çokaj says Levadiakos went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

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.

Market

Giannis Sourdis is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Levadiakos is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Levadiakos against Aris Thessaloniki

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

Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

In brief

  • Player ratings Moses Cobnan was unplayable
  • The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Ognjen Ožegović's mistake
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
28 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Miguelito damages knee ligaments — 146 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 146 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

41 days out for Leonardo Pérez after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Levadiakos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Terms done: Giannis Sourdis is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and AEL Larisa waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Levadiakos is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

The dugout

Lucas 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.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Tijn den Boggende rejects the move

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

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

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

Agustín Orofino 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. Agustín Orofino has, at Levadiakos, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Match

A bad afternoon for Levadiakos against AEK

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

In brief

27 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Agustín Urzi damages knee ligaments — 46 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 46 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

Leonardo Pérez breaks a bone — 48 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Panagiotis Liagas 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.

Market

Levadiakos turn down Aris Thessaloniki for Aliou Badji

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

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.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Tijn den Boggende

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Levadiakos have done the hard part with Utrecht, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

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.

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. 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.

Transfer targets

Estudiantes tell Levadiakos: Tomás Blanco 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.

In brief

26 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Agustín Urzi damages knee ligaments — 53 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 53 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

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

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

Leonardo Pérez breaks a bone — 58 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 58 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

NK Maribor 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.

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.

The dugout

Giannis Satsias: 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.

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.

Transfer targets

Levadiakos rebuffed over Ian Vera

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

In brief

25 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Giannis Tsivelekidis

70 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

67 days out for Leonardo Pérez after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Levadiakos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Javi Hervás 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.

Market

Eyes on Giannis Kosti again

The phone has started ringing about Giannis Kosti again, and this time the name on the line is NK Maribor. Levadiakos are listening politely and promising nothing.

Transfer targets

Ivan Timoshenko turns down Levadiakos

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

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.

Transfer targets

Levadiakos rebuffed over Srđan Hrstić

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Gregorio Rodríguez

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

Squad

Levadiakos lose Hisham Layous

20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

24 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Giannis Tsivelekidis damages knee ligaments — 77 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 77 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

Nobody could get near Agustín Urzi

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

Squad

74 days out for Leonardo Pérez after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Levadiakos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Terms done: Giannis Sourdis is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and AEL Larisa waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Levadiakos is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

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

Leonel Rubiño signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Leonel Rubiño commits to Levadiakos for another 3 years.

Transfer targets

OFI tell Levadiakos: Achilleas Poungouras 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.

Match

Ognjen Ožegović the difference as Levadiakos beat Asteras

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

Player ratings

One of those days for Guillermo Balzi

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.31, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

23 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Giannis Tsivelekidis out for 86 days

86 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 throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Volos NPS the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Levadiakos will enjoy reviewing.

Squad

81 days out for Leonardo Pérez after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Levadiakos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Moses Cobnan scores twice — 8.70

Two goals and a mark of 8.70 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

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.

The dugout

Miguelito says Levadiakos went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Transfer targets

Konstantinos Apostolakis is a medical away from Levadiakos

The deal with Kifisia 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

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

Leonel Rubiño signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Leonel Rubiño commits to Levadiakos for another 3 years.

In brief

22 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Giannis Tsivelekidis

94 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.

Market

Giannis Kosti 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 fracture rules Leonardo Pérez out for 88 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Levadiakos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

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.

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.

Match

Moses Cobnan the difference as Levadiakos beat AEL Larisa

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Moses Cobnan. 1‑0 against AEL Larisa, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

Player ratings

Moses Cobnan stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.91 on the card, and the Levadiakos support went home talking about one name.

The dugout

Vasileios Mavropanos 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.” Vasileios Mavropanos on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief

21 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Giannis Tsivelekidis out for 101 days

101 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

96 days out for Leonardo Pérez after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Levadiakos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Levadiakos throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with OFI the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Levadiakos will enjoy reviewing.

Squad

Ognjen Ožegović takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Market

Javi Hervás 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.

The dugout

Javi Hervás: 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: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

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.

Player ratings

Ognjen Ožegović in the eights

A performance of 9.52 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

20 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Giannis Tsivelekidis damages knee ligaments — 110 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 110 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

Leonardo Pérez breaks a bone — 104 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 104 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. 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.

Match

Levadiakos come up short against PAOK

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

Market

Levadiakos promote Stylianos Kourbelis from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stylianos Kourbelis 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

The dugout

Aliou Badji 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

Vasileios Mavropanos answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief

19 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Fotios Vlachodimos out for 16 days

16 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 fracture rules Leonardo Pérez out for 116 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Levadiakos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 26. 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.

The dugout

Juan Bauzá: 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.

Match

Nobody wants to play Levadiakos right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

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 see off Panetolikos

Three points for Levadiakos, 1‑0 the final word against Panetolikos in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Enis Çokaj 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

Agustín Urzi in the eights

A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

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Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Fotios Vlachodimos

25 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.

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 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 muscle injury sidelines Yury Lodygin for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Levadiakos will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

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 find a way past Atromitos

Atromitos made Levadiakos work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

One of those days for Moses Cobnan

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.63, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

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.

The dugout

Miguelito 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

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23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Agustín Urzi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 43. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

The knee: Fotios Vlachodimos out for 32 days

32 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.

Market

Javi Hervás 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.

The dugout

Giorgos Manthatis says Levadiakos went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

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.

Match

Agustín Urzi sends Levadiakos past Kifisia

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

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.

Player ratings

Guillermo Balzi in the eights

A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

In brief

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The Levadiakos Herald

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Agustín Urzi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Yury Lodygin stands alone

8 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.

The dugout

Giorgos Kornezos: 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.

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

Player ratings

Moses Cobnan was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.17. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Aliou Badji 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Enis Çokaj

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

In brief

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The Levadiakos Herald

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for Levadiakos

0‑6 against AEK, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Yury Lodygin

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

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

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Levadiakos and AEK in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

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.

Match

Levadiakos cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Market

Levadiakos promote Grigorios Pelkas from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Grigorios Pelkas 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

One of our own: Efthymios Alexiou joins the Levadiakos first team

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

Squad

Enis Çokaj 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

  • Boardroom Nobody left the Levadiakos dressing room in a hurry
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Niv Eliasi asks for a word with the manager
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2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for Levadiakos

0‑3 against Olympiacos, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

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

6 saves: Yury Lodygin was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. 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

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.

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

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.

The dugout

Vasileios Mavropanos answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief

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The Levadiakos Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

9 saves: Yury Lodygin was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

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.

Match

Panathinaikos take the points off Levadiakos

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

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.

The dugout

Javi Hervás 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

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Vasileios Mavropanos to a room that had heard them before.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Giannis Kosti

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

The dugout

No place in the plan for Aliou Badji

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

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The Levadiakos Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Gregorio Rodríguez

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Giannis Kosti delivers — 7.83

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Giannis Kosti scored, was marked 7.83, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Match

Levadiakos end the wait against Panserraikos

It had gone 7 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

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 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.

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.

The terraces

One of their own: Alexandru Pantea

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

The dugout

Niv Eliasi 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.

Match

Levadiakos see off Panserraikos

Three points for Levadiakos, 1‑0 the final word against Panserraikos in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

11 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Dimitris Emmanouilidis was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 37. 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 Levadiakos

7 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

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.

Market

Eleftherios Tsimikas steps up from the Levadiakos academy

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

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Ognjen Ožegović

A mark of 7.92, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout

No hiding place for Juan Bauzá

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

Match

Honours even between Levadiakos and Asteras

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Vasileios Mavropanos on the point

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

The dugout

Levadiakos pick somebody else ahead of Giorgos Manthatis

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.

In brief

10 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

The wait goes on for Levadiakos

6 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

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

A bad afternoon for Levadiakos against Volos NPS

1‑2 to Volos NPS, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

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.

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

14 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

Vasileios Mavropanos faces the questions

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

Squad

A promotion for Niv Eliasi

Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Niv Eliasi has moved up it.

In brief

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The Levadiakos Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The cup run ends for Levadiakos

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Gregorio Rodríguez

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Yury Lodygin keeps Levadiakos in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

5 matches without a win for Levadiakos

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Levadiakos are no longer polite ones.

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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Levadiakos against AEL Larisa

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

Squad

A row about effort at Levadiakos

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

Player ratings

Lamarana Jallow fails from the spot

Twelve yards and the whole ground holding its breath, and it did not go in. He will put his name down for the next one, which is the only thing to do.

The dugout

Vasileios Mavropanos: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

8 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Levadiakos throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with OFI the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Levadiakos will enjoy reviewing.

Player ratings

Both of them Ognjen Ožegović's — 9.24

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.24, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Yury Lodygin 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

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

Levadiakos lose Panagiotis Liagas

27 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Gregorio Rodríguez

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

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.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Marios Vichos — 6.78

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 6.78, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Player ratings

Guillermo Balzi in the eights

A performance of 8.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

7 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Too dear: Levadiakos walk away from Moussa Wagué

$2.0M was the most the club would pay and Panserraikos 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

Levadiakos count the cost of losing Agustín Urzi

30 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Javi Hervás pulls a muscle — 17 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 17 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Market

Levadiakos promote Georgios Giakoumakis from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Georgios Giakoumakis 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.

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.

Squad

Appearance number 100 for Guillermo Balzi

100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

Match

Levadiakos refuse to lose to PAOK

A point taken on 92 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Giorgos Nikas 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

Transfer targets

Levadiakos bid $2.0M for Moussa Wagué

The offer went to Panserraikos 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.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 20 signed and 2 gone

That is the business done at Levadiakos until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market

Giannis Sourdis 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: 20. 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

Javi Hervás 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. 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.

Player ratings

Ognjen Ožegović ran the middle of the pitch — 7.04

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 10 combined actions and a mark of 7.04, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

Match

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 91 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Levadiakos had all but put away. Panetolikos will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

Squad

Levadiakos are still strangers to each other

14 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

5 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Gregorio Rodríguez beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

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.

Market

Levadiakos sign Giannis Satsias for $810.0K

The paperwork is done: Giannis Satsias joins from Panetolikos in a deal worth $810.0K. Now comes the harder part.

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

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.

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.

Match

Levadiakos see off Atromitos

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

Player ratings

Moses Cobnan was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.27. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings

Ognjen Ožegović was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.10. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

  • The dugout Juan Bauzá gets it from the manager
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Squad The formation has left Giannis Satsias behind
4 Edition

The Levadiakos Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Giannis Satsias

Levadiakos and Panetolikos have settled on $810.0K. 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.

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

Too dear: Levadiakos walk away from Andrews Tetteh

$4.9M 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.

Transfer targets

Levadiakos rebuffed over Pavlos Pantelidis

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

Hakim Sahabo is a Levadiakos player

The fee is $750.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. AEK drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

Panagiotis Liagas out for 57 days

The medical room confirms 57 days on the sidelines for Panagiotis Liagas, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

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.

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

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.

In brief

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The Levadiakos Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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 agree $750.0K for Hakim Sahabo

The clubs have shaken hands with AEK; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Transfer targets

Levadiakos make their move for Andrews Tetteh

$4.2M 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.

Squad

Agustín Urzi out for 60 days

The medical room confirms 60 days on the sidelines for Agustín Urzi, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Transfer targets

No deal for Alexis Kalogeropoulos at that price

Levadiakos offered $1.4M; Olympiacos said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Bence Gazdag rejects the move

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

In brief