Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Jonathan Dellarossa has, at Omonoia, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
$1.7M was the most the club would pay and AEL 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.
Central Espanol did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $720.0K for Jonathan Dellarossa, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Omonoia asked and Omonia 29M said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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.
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Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Carel Eiting 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.
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Ethnikos Latsion waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Omonoia is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Nicolae Milinceanu is living that version at Omonoia, and it tends to show in the first month.
$3.8M was the most the club would pay and Akritas Chlorakas 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.
Omonia 29M paid $530.0K and Omonoia took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
$3.8M on the table at Akritas Chlorakas. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Omonoia have gone to AEL 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.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $4.1M — a club that wants Benito enough to be asked twice.
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.
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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.
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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.
Omonoia asked and Cádiz 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 most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Omonoia will quote 17 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The phone has started ringing about Francis Uzoho again, and this time the name on the line is Olympiakos Nicosia. Omonoia are listening politely and promising nothing.
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.