29 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process
17 Edition

The OFI Post

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Thiago Nuss

Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A fracture rules Thanasis Androutsos out for 125 days

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

Player ratings

Vintage Kenan Kodro — 7.90

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.90, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Words exchanged at OFI

Dimitris Nikolaou 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

Kenan Kodro the difference as OFI beat Asteras

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

Squad

Words at OFI training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lorenzo Dickmann 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 Aaron Leya Iseka

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

OFI at the halfway mark

Half the programme played, position 10, 13 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.

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

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The OFI Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

133 days out for Thanasis Androutsos after a fracture

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

Player ratings

Ilias Chatzitheodoridis runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

4 matches without a win for OFI

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

Squad

Tempers go at OFI

Dimitris Nikolaou 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

4 matches without a goal for OFI

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 at OFI training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aitor Cantalapiedra 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

Thanasis Androutsos was the difference for OFI

Marked 7.25. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout

No hiding place for Juan Neira

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

The dugout

Nikos Pelkas: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief

15 Edition

The OFI Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dimitris Nikolaou 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 OFI this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Giannis Theodosoulakis 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.

Squad

Aitor Cantalapiedra 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

OFI 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.

The dugout

Tomás González 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

A promise honoured for Aaron Leya Iseka

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. OFI told Aaron Leya Iseka something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad

Facundo Paredes is a square peg at OFI

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

Thiago Nuss asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Nikos Pelkas on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

In brief

14 Edition

The OFI Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Anger at OFI 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.

Match

OFI sink to position 12

8 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad

A falling-out at OFI

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

Player ratings

Ilias Chatzitheodoridis beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

A bad afternoon for OFI against AEK

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

Squad

Words at OFI training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lorenzo Dickmann 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 Zisis Karachalios

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at OFI

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

Nikos Pelkas: “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

13 Edition

The OFI Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Alexandros Tsobanidis 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. Alexandros Tsobanidis has, at OFI, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets

Roberto Lezcano due for a OFI medical

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

Squad

Words exchanged at OFI

Dimitris Nikolaou 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

Aitor Cantalapiedra 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

Filip Bainović makes it 200

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

The dugout

Aaron Leya Iseka gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Aaron Leya Iseka

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Nikos Pelkas on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Ilias Chatzitheodoridis

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

12 Edition

The OFI Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikos Athanasiou

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

Player ratings

Kenan Kodro 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.

Match

OFI end the wait against Panetolikos

It had gone 8 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

Tempers go at OFI

Dimitris Nikolaou 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

Aitor Cantalapiedra 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

OFI find a way past Panetolikos

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

Squad

A late step up for Panagiotis Katsikas

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.

Player ratings

Aitor Cantalapiedra stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.72 on the card, and the OFI support went home talking about one name.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Taxiarchis Fountas

“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

11 Edition

The OFI Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikos Athanasiou

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

Match

The wait goes on for OFI

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

Squad

Klidman Lilo is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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

Dimitris Nikolaou 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 OFI this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

4 matches without a goal for OFI

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

Giannis Apostolakis signs on for more

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

Match

OFI come up short against Atromitos

Atromitos left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Eddie Salcedo beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Borja González

“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

10 Edition

The OFI Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Nikos Athanasiou out for 31 days

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Giannis Theodosoulakis

Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

The wait goes on for OFI

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

A falling-out at OFI

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

Squad

Esteban Pourcher 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 move Esteban Pourcher 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. Esteban Pourcher is living that version at OFI, and it tends to show in the first month.

The dugout

No hiding place for Zisis Karachalios

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

Market

OFI sign Esteban Pourcher, one for the future

Esteban Pourcher is 20, and OFI 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.

Market

Talks stall between OFI and Ilias Chatzitheodoridis

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Zisis Karachalios
  • Market Experience through the door at OFI
9 Edition

The OFI Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Nikos Athanasiou out for 38 days

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

Match

OFI out of the cup

AEL Larisa ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Player ratings

Giannis Theodosoulakis 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.

Match

The wait goes on for OFI

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

Words exchanged at OFI

Dimitris Nikolaou 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 Manuel Kalafatis at OFI

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

Squad

Aitor Cantalapiedra 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

Dimitris Nikolaou 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

OFI come up short against Aris Thessaloniki

Aris Thessaloniki left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

8 Edition

The OFI Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikos Athanasiou

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

Player ratings

Thiago Nuss scores twice — 8.41

Two goals and a mark of 8.41 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

4 matches without a win for OFI

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

Squad

Tempers go at OFI

Dimitris Nikolaou 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 Nikos Christogeorgos

“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 OFI

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

Player ratings

Giannis Theodosoulakis beats them one at a time

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

Match

Levadiakos snatch it back from OFI

A goal on 93 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Match

OFI share the spoils with Levadiakos

A 2‑2 draw with Levadiakos leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

7 Edition

The OFI Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ilias Chatzitheodoridis

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

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Vasilis Sourlis deal

OFI ran out of time with AEL Larisa. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Squad

Words at OFI training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aitor Cantalapiedra 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

OFI 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.

Squad

Tempers go at OFI

Andreas Bouchalakis 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

OFI promote Anastasios Tzolis from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Anastasios Tzolis 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: Nikolaos Manolas joins the OFI first team

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

Match

Olympiacos take the points off OFI

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

The dugout

Nikos Pelkas faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Nikos Pelkas after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief

6 Edition

The OFI Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Charly Dutournier agrees terms with Slovacko

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

Player ratings

Thiago Nuss 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.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Vasilis Sourlis

OFI and AEL Larisa have settled on $950.0K. 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

Filip Bainović 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 OFI can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 18 signed and 2 gone

That is the business done at OFI 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.

Squad

A falling-out at OFI

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

Transfer targets

Too dear: OFI walk away from Ognjen Ožegović

$300.0K was the most the club would pay and Levadiakos 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

Aitor Cantalapiedra 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

Deadline beats OFI to Luca Andrada

The clock did what AEL Larisa would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

In brief

5 Edition

The OFI Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Giannis Theodosoulakis 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.

Market

Not going: Giannis Theodosoulakis stays at OFI

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Rukh had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market

Achilleas Poungouras asks to leave OFI

“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 deal for Karol Świderski at that price

OFI offered $2.9M; Panathinaikos 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

Ilija Vukotić moves on

Volos NPS pay $1.8M, 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

Salvador Martínez will not be coming to OFI

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Ferro Carril Oeste is saying, and nobody at OFI is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Words exchanged at OFI

Dimitris Nikolaou 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

Business is business: Giannis Christopoulos goes

Levadiakos paid $660.0K and OFI took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Real improvement from Manuel Kalafatis at OFI

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

In brief

  • Squad Words at OFI training over how hard people work
  • Transfer targets Door shut on Tiago Caballero
  • Squad Too much change too quickly at OFI
4 Edition

The OFI Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

OFI turn down Olympiacos for Giannis Apostolakis

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

Transfer targets

No deal for Pavlos Pantelidis at that price

OFI offered $3.8M; Panathinaikos 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

Nikos Marinakis 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 OFI can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Lee Young-Jun rejects the move

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

Squad

Tempers go at OFI

Dimitris Nikolaou 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

Door shut on Ognjen Ožegović

OFI asked and Levadiakos 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

Aitor Cantalapiedra 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

OFI try to borrow Lucas Varaldo

Baltika 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.

Looking ahead

Panagiotis Katsikas faces his old club

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

In brief

3 Edition

The OFI Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Panathinaikos come back empty-handed

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

Transfer targets

An offer of $3.5M for Pavlos Pantelidis

OFI have gone to Panathinaikos 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

Too dear: OFI walk away from Andrews Tetteh

$4.2M was the most the club would pay and Panathinaikos were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

Dimitris Nikolaou 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 OFI this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

OFI rebuffed over Jeremy Antonisse

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

Squad

A row about effort at OFI

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

Transfer targets

A loan move for Lee Young-Jun is in the works

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

Squad

Tomás González signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tomás González and OFI agree another 1 years.

Market

The Giannis Apostolakis talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. OFI know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

2 Edition

The OFI Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

An offer of $4.2M for Andrews Tetteh

OFI have gone to Panathinaikos 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

OFI bid $2.9M for Karol Świderski

The offer went to Panathinaikos 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

Thiago Nuss signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Thiago Nuss commits to OFI for another 3 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at OFI

Dimitris Nikolaou 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

Door shut on Giorgos Mygas

OFI asked and Volos NPS 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 row about effort at OFI

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

Market

Panagiotis Manolas steps up from the OFI academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Panagiotis Manolas 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

Manolis Pelkas steps up from the OFI academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Manolis Pelkas 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

OFI promote Stylianos Lampropoulos from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stylianos Lampropoulos 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.

In brief

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The OFI Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Aitor Cantalapiedra stays put

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

Squad

A falling-out at OFI

Dimitris Nikolaou 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 OFI training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aitor Cantalapiedra is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Dane Scarlett

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

Market

Nobody at OFI has picked up the phone to Aitor Cantalapiedra

36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Squad

8 new faces, and OFI are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief