20 Aug 2026
Thursday
Process
3 Edition

The Niki Volos Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Too dear: Niki Volos walk away from Thiago Nuss

$1.7M was the most the club would pay and OFI 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

An offer of $900.0K for Filip Bainović

Niki Volos have gone to OFI 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.

Transfer targets

Kostas Kotsopoulos due for a Niki Volos medical

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

Transfer targets

Niki Volos rebuffed over Achilleas Poungouras

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

Squad

A falling-out at Niki Volos

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

Squad

Kostas Plegas 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

Back issues
2 Edition

The Niki Volos Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Door shut on Thiago Nuss

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

Transfer targets

No thanks: Alexander Callens rejects the move

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

Squad

Tempers go at Niki Volos

Triantafyllos Pasalidis 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

No deal for Nikos Marinakis at that price

Niki Volos offered $280.0K; OFI 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.

Market

Niki Volos promote Sotirios Retsos from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sotirios Retsos 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

Niki Volos promote Emmanouil Ioannidis from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Emmanouil Ioannidis has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Alexandros Mitroglou joins the Niki Volos first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alexandros Mitroglou 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: Andreas Karelis joins the Niki Volos first team

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

The dugout

Kostas Plegas 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

1 Edition

The Niki Volos Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Triantafyllos Pasalidis signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Triantafyllos Pasalidis and Niki Volos agree another 3 years.

Transfer targets

Niki Volos bid $240.0K for Nikos Marinakis

The offer went to OFI 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Niki Volos

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

Transfer targets

Niki Volos rebuffed over Antonio Zarzana

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

Squad

This league is too small for Nemanja Milojević

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Niki Volos will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Market

Niki Volos and Thanasis Garavelis are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

Tempers go at Niki Volos

Alexandros Lolis 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

Niki Volos try to borrow Alexander Callens

AEK 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.

Market

No place for Jean Pierre Barrientos in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jean Pierre Barrientos has his answer from Niki Volos; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief