” Seriously ? No way “. When asked about Pafos’ good results in the Champions League, Axel Guessand makes no secret: he didn’t expect it. Although he only arrived at the Cypriot club on October 2, the French central defender admits to being “surprised” by the five points taken by his team on the European scene, including a victory against Villarreal while awaiting the meeting against Monaco this Wednesday (6:45 p.m.).
However, this was the ambition of this recent club, born in 2014 from the merger between AE Paphos and AEK Kouklia to offer the city in western Cyprus a club worthy of the name. And even more so since the arrival of billionaire Roman Dubov in 2017. “We said from day one: everything that big clubs like Manchester United or Chelsea have, we should have too. Perhaps on a smaller scale, but never with lower quality,” he told Economy Today.
