From our football correspondent
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 The request is on a desk at Panetolikos, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
Levadiakos pay $880.0K, 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 Panetolikos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Panetolikos have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Alexandru Măţan 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
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Steady
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 Panetolikos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Panetolikos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandru Măţan 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
Levadiakos are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Panetolikos will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Youssouph Badji 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Panetolikos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Manrique 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Charis Mavrias’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Vasilis Xenopoulos has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Panetolikos.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexandru Măţan and Panetolikos agree another 3 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 Panetolikos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Alexandru Măţan 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
Živko Živković is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Panetolikos has been clear about where Živko Živković stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Panetolikos, another week without a signature from Unai Garcia.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Lenny Lobato
Still no offer on the table, and Lenny Lobato’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.