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Triumph
Squad31 Aug 2026
Moussa Sissoko damages knee ligaments — 39 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 39 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Gideon Mensah gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Gideon Mensah has just signed for Panathinaikos, and for once the answer mattered.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer from Poltava for Triantafyllos Tsapras was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market31 Aug 2026
Tin Jedvaj 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 Panathinaikos can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 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 Panathinaikos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market31 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Panathinaikos have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Panathinaikos
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Anastasios Mitroglou is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match29 Aug 2026
PAOK made Panathinaikos work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Moussa Sissoko damages knee ligaments — 48 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 48 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
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
“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 Panathinaikos, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
Aris Thessaloniki pay $2.0M, 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.
Squad24 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 Panathinaikos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Moussa Sissoko damages knee ligaments — 55 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 55 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market17 Aug 2026
PAOK come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Panathinaikos did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Facundo Pellistri 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Triantafyllos Tsapras has come up in conversations Panathinaikos were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Panathinaikos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iñaki Peña 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Tin Jedvaj told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Tin Jedvaj has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Panathinaikos.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer from Partizan for Karol Świderski was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market10 Aug 2026
Davide Calabria wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Panathinaikos hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Iñaki Peña and Panathinaikos agree another 4 years.
Squad10 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 Panathinaikos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Davide Calabria
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Étienne Camara has come up in conversations Panathinaikos were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
Zadar come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Panathinaikos did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Stefan de Vrij commits to Panathinaikos for another 2 years.
Squad3 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 Panathinaikos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Stefan de Vrij 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
Add another name to the list: Levadiakos have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Santino Andino. The answer from Panathinaikos has not changed — yet.