Marked for Barnabás Varga
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad25 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AEK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Barnabás Varga 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
12 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Thomas Strakosha has given nobody the chance.
Squad25 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Luis Ángel Díaz
“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.
Loan watch25 Jan 2027
“I did not go to Aris Thessaloniki to sit and watch. I want to come back to AEK and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 24 matches say the rest.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad18 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at AEK
Lovro Majer 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Alexandros Paschalakis is a AEK player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at AEK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Barnabás Varga 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Răzvan Marin 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.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match16 Jan 2027
The run at home goes on for AEK
8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match16 Jan 2027
AEK find a way past PAOK
PAOK made AEK work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
17 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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Steady
Match2 Jan 2027
12 unbeaten for AEK
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 12 matches without defeat is a foundation AEK did not have in the autumn.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Lovro Majer is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. AEK will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at AEK
Kaan Kairinen 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at AEK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Barnabás Varga 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.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
19 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
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.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 16 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match2 Jan 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Panetolikos will be the happier side with the point.
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Upbeat
Match26 Dec 2026
11 unbeaten for AEK
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation AEK did not have in the autumn.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Lovro Majer in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AEK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Barnabás Varga 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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match26 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Aboubakary Koita. 1‑0 against Panserraikos, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Aboubakary Koita at his very best
Marked 8.10. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AEK.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Getting past Thomas Strakosha has become the hardest job in the division
10 clean sheets and counting. Forwards used to back themselves here; now they shoot early, shoot wide, and look for somebody to blame.
Loan watch28 Dec 2026
“I watch every AEK game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Aris Thessaloniki runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Thomas Strakosha has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at AEK will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Match9 Dec 2026
AEK bow out of the cup
OFI go through and AEK go home, 0‑0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Dec 2026
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match12 Dec 2026
9 unbeaten for AEK
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation AEK did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Defensive actions: 24. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad14 Dec 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 AEK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Barnabás Varga 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Asteras made AEK work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.
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Uneasy
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match5 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten AEK
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at AEK
Răzvan Marin 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at AEK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Barnabás Varga 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and AEK know it.
Match5 Dec 2026
Three points for AEK, 2‑0 the final word against Kifisia in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“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.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Marked 7.99 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, AEK had the best player on the pitch.
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Uneasy
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for AEK
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.38, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at AEK
Lovro Majer 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at AEK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Barnabás Varga 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match21 Nov 2026
A 3‑3 draw with Aris Thessaloniki leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“I watch every AEK game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at BATE runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Uneasy
Match14 Nov 2026
7 matches without a win for AEK
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around AEK are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Lovro Majer in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AEK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Barnabás Varga 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
The goals have deserted AEK
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at AEK can tell you which week it ends in.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 17 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I watch every AEK game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Aris Thessaloniki runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Petros Mantalos dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Uneasy
Market9 Nov 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 AEK, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match7 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for AEK
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around AEK are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Nov 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at AEK
Lovro Majer 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Barnabás Varga is still paying for one afternoon at AEK
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad9 Nov 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 4.63, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Uneasy
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to AEK's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AEK has to find a result from somewhere.
Market2 Nov 2026
Barnabás Varga 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 AEK hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Barnabás Varga 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Niclas Eliasson
“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.
Squad2 Nov 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 AEK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at AEK, and 0 appearances in 12 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Răzvan Marin dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
15 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for AEK
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at AEK
Răzvan Marin 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at AEK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Barnabás Varga 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.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I watch every AEK game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at BATE runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
Derby day misery for AEK
Losing 0‑1 is one thing; losing to Panathinaikos in a derby is a wound that takes months to close.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at AEK
Lovro Majer 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Marios Balamotis is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market12 Oct 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at AEK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Barnabás Varga 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and AEK know it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at AEK, and 2 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 4.75, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market5 Oct 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Lovro Majer in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AEK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Barnabás Varga 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Domagoj Vida commits to AEK for another 2 years.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 14 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A defender's afternoon for Kaan Kairinen
Defensive actions: 13. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Upbeat
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market28 Sep 2026
AEK may not be able to give Barnabás Varga what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Barnabás Varga wants continental football; whether AEK can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at AEK
Lovro Majer 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 2‑1 win over Panserraikos, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.07 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“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.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
Lovro Majer in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AEK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Barnabás Varga 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Atromitos made AEK work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I watch every AEK game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Aris Thessaloniki runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad21 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Steady
Market14 Sep 2026
Thomas Strakosha 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 AEK hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at AEK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Barnabás Varga 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at AEK
Jeremy Antonisse 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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every AEK game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Aris Thessaloniki runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad14 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Domagoj Vida 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
It needed Lovro Majer to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Asteras, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market14 Sep 2026
AEK opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Alexander Callens stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.
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Triumph
Market31 Aug 2026
Besiktas pay $12.1M, 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
AEK sell a favourite for $12.1M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Luka Jović was one of the reasons people came, and $12.1M does not replace that by itself.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at AEK
Kaan Kairinen 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
23 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at AEK
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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Vasileios Fortounis has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market31 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vasileios Nikolaou has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market31 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Leonidas Pelkas has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Luis Ángel Díaz gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Luis Ángel Díaz has just signed for AEK, and for once the answer mattered.
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Olympiacos have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Kaan Kairinen. The answer from AEK has not changed — yet.
Market10 Aug 2026
Olympiacos come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and AEK did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
Every dressing room knows how to read a signing like this one. Luis Ángel Díaz is not here to sit and wait indefinitely, and the man whose place he has been bought to take knows it better than anyone.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lovro Majer commits to AEK for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at AEK
Lovro Majer 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.
In brief
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Market
Barnabás Varga wants more than AEK are offering
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Squad
Words at AEK training over how hard people work