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Match3 Oct 2026
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Both of them Ryan Mmaee's — 8.86
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.86, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Mustafa Hekimoğlu at 19 — 8.41
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Mustafa Hekimoğlu did not need any: 8.41, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Stevan Jovetić, 36, rolls back the years — 8.39
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.39 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Angelos Neofytou 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Omonoia make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Omonoia have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Carel Eiting 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 Omonoia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Stevan Jovetić 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Home is on Cicinho's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Omonoia are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
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Upbeat
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.72 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Carel Eiting 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Omonoia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stevan Jovetić 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Three points for Omonoia, 2‑1 the final word against Doxa in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Marcos Delgado
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ryan Mmaee leaves them behind him
Shots: 9. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Marcos Delgado 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
4 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 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 Omonoia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Moses Odubajo 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Mihlali Mayambela was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.74. 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Agia Napa made Omonoia work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 17, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Shots: 9, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Omonoia
13 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.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Andreas Christou is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Omonoia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stevan Jovetić 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.
Squad14 Sep 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 Omonoia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Ryan Mmaee
“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.
Match12 Sep 2026
AEL take the points off Omonoia
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market14 Sep 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Omonoia will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market14 Sep 2026
The Ryan Mmaee story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ryan Mmaee signs something — a contract at Omonoia or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 5.80. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Stevan Jovetić, 36, rolls back the years — 8.73
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.73 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Fabiano
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.
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 Omonoia can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
Agia Napa come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Omonoia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Carel Eiting 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 Omonoia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Stevan Jovetić 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
APOEL made Omonoia work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Muamer Tanković was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.49. 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Shots: 7, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Crisis
Market31 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Omonoia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 35 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Market31 Aug 2026
Stefan Simić 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 Omonoia can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Moses Odubajo for 16 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Omonoia will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Stevan Jovetić 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Omonoia
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marios Antoniou 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.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 Omonoia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
APOEL come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Omonoia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Carel Eiting 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 Omonoia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
Al-Qadisiyah are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Omonoia will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Stevan Jovetić 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Experience through the door at Omonoia
Marcos Delgado arrives at 38 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Pafos come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Omonoia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Ryan Mmaee has come up in conversations Omonoia were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market17 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Bruno joins from Pafos in a deal worth $360.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Stevan Jovetić 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Omonoia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jure Balkovec 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Omonoia
6 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.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Senou Coulibaly commits to Omonoia for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Stevan Jovetić 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Omonoia have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mihlali Mayambela 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Omonoia has been clear about where Tasos Chatzigiovanis stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months and counting on Carel Eiting
Still no offer on the table, and Carel Eiting’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
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Steady
Market3 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Fabiano signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fabiano commits to Omonoia for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Carel Eiting 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 Omonoia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Stevan Jovetić 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Fabiano told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Fabiano has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Omonoia.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Mateusz Musiałowski has come up in conversations Omonoia were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.