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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Bruno 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 Pafos can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Benfica keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad24 Aug 2026
David Luiz 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Pafos
Ognjen Mimović 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
Pafos asked and Cortulua 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 targets24 Aug 2026
Real Madrid 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Pafos will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Lelê still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Pafos would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Felipe Ferreira 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. Felipe Ferreira is living that version at Pafos, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Cortulua keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Pafos
David Luiz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Pafos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dani Silva 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 targets17 Aug 2026
Pafos asked and Cortulua said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Jay Gorter has come up in conversations Pafos were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Felipe Ferreira and Pafos agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Cortulua: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Market17 Aug 2026
Bruno told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Bruno has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Pafos.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Pafos
David Luiz 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 targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kostakis Laifis 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Constantinos Demetriou is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nektarios Kyriakou 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Panagiotis Economides is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikolas Ioannou, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Pafos
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Samy Mmaee was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan move for Mateo Herrera is in the works
Pafos have made the call to Cortulua. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” David Luiz and Pafos agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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
Words exchanged at Pafos
Radosław Majecki 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Jajá wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Pafos
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Luiz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Pafos asked and Sporting CP said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.