The Asteras Gazette
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Fanis Tzandaris
120 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Asteras lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market14 Sep 2026
Kostas Triantafyllopoulos asks to leave Asteras
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The window shuts on the Erick Ferigra deal
Asteras ran out of time with AEL Larisa. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Spyros Angelidis at Asteras
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Spyros Angelidis is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match12 Sep 2026
AEK take the points off Asteras
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Junior Mendieta makes it 200
200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
José Antonio Martínez gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Asteras training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moisés 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Vasileios Samaris: “No excuses”
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
In brief
- The dugout Asteras pick somebody else ahead of Diego Parras
- Player ratings Ricardinho was unplayable
- The dugout Kalvin Ketu knocks on the manager's door