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Steady
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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 ratings23 Nov 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.90, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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.
Match21 Nov 2026
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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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 dugout23 Nov 2026
“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.
Match23 Nov 2026
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 dugout23 Nov 2026
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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
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 ratings16 Nov 2026
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.
Match14 Nov 2026
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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.
Match14 Nov 2026
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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 ratings16 Nov 2026
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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
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 ratings9 Nov 2026
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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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.
Match7 Nov 2026
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 dugout9 Nov 2026
“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 dugout9 Nov 2026
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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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 dugout9 Nov 2026
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 dugout9 Nov 2026
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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces2 Nov 2026
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.
Match2 Nov 2026
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
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 ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match31 Oct 2026
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
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 dugout2 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
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 dugout2 Nov 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
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 targets26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
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 dugout26 Oct 2026
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.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
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 ratings19 Oct 2026
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.
Match17 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Panetolikos made OFI work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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 ratings19 Oct 2026
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 dugout19 Oct 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Match10 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Match10 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Atromitos left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
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 dugout12 Oct 2026
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
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 ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match3 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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 dugout5 Oct 2026
“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.
Market5 Oct 2026
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.
Market5 Oct 2026
“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
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Zisis Karachalios
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Market
Experience through the door at OFI
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Match23 Sep 2026
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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match26 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Aris Thessaloniki left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
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 ratings21 Sep 2026
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.
Match19 Sep 2026
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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 dugout21 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match19 Sep 2026
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.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Levadiakos leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Match12 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
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 ratings7 Sep 2026
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 targets7 Sep 2026
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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 targets7 Sep 2026
$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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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 targets7 Sep 2026
The clock did what AEL Larisa would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 targets31 Aug 2026
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
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 targets31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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
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Squad
Words at OFI training over how hard people work
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Transfer targets
Door shut on Tiago Caballero
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Squad
Too much change too quickly at OFI
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 targets24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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 targets24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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 targets24 Aug 2026
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 ahead24 Aug 2026
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
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 targets17 Aug 2026
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 targets17 Aug 2026
$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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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 targets17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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 targets17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“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.
Market17 Aug 2026
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
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 targets10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Thiago Nuss commits to OFI for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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 targets10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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 targets3 Aug 2026
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.