Iván Nadal

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11 Dec 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Iván Nadal

12 Edition

The AEL Larisa Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to AEL Larisa's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AEL Larisa has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

AEL Larisa cannot find the net

5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

A row about effort at AEL Larisa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andreas Makris was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

A bad afternoon for AEL Larisa against Aris Thessaloniki

0‑1 to Aris Thessaloniki, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Andreas Makris runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Ahmed Kossonou signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ahmed Kossonou and AEL Larisa agree another 4 years.

Squad

Iván Nadal is slowing down

At 39, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

The dugout

Eleftherios Kourbelis faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Eleftherios Kourbelis after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Christos Albanis

“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.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The AEL Larisa Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

5 matches without a win for AEL Larisa

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around AEL Larisa are no longer polite ones.

Match

The goals have deserted AEL Larisa

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at AEL Larisa can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

A falling-out at AEL Larisa

Davíð Kristján Ólafsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at AEL Larisa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andreas Makris was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Pablo Ocampo is slowing down

At 36, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Boardroom

103% of the income goes out in wages at AEL Larisa

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at AEL Larisa

17 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Player ratings

Dilan Ortíz was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

No hiding place for Luca Andrada

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luca Andrada, and the manager let it.

In brief